John F. Gillette was born a triplet with a triple desire to serve God through music/evangelism, ministry/education, mentoring/exhortation. Discovering God's Favor is his spiritual autobiography. He was driven by passion, independence, and diversity.

His life has been primarily a self-taught initiative who received two honorary doctorates in music and ministry through scholarly attainment, established fifty school music departments, and creating a spiritual solution strategy for pastoral health care leadership (Maranatha Bible Seminary, Louisiana Baptist university).

He has pastored several churches and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Religion-Biblical Christianity. (Columbia Pacific University). He is the author of the Pastoral Health Care Series.