Apostle Rick has been preaching and teaching the Word since age fourteen.  He has also been on the cutting edge in leading praise and worship. During these 31 years of ministry of the word and worship, God has taught Apostle Rick the life-changing truths of His Word through the spirit of revelation and understanding, and has revealed His awesome presence through experiencing true, Biblical-based praise and worship. God has used Apostle Rick as a Prophet to the church world over the last sixteen years while pastoring in South Carolina and Virginia.  God has developed a father’s heart in him and has begun to establish the Apostolic authority in him and through him by establishing the eternal truths of our Lord and His Christ to the world. 

   Music has always been primary in the ministry of Apostle Rick.  He graduated cum laude from Pembroke State University, North Carolina with a B.S. in Music Education and has taught instrumental music to young people over the last 20 years.  But ministry of the word has been the main thrust of his life.  He and Apostle Sheila both have been through Ministerial Internships and have been ordained under four different coverings, the first being in 1988.  Before ordination, they served as Ministers of Music, Education, Youth, Children and as Associate Pastors.  They have served as Senior Pastors since 1990. 

   Apostle Sheila graduated from Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina with a B.A. in Elementary Education. She has always had a great gifting in communicating worship with young people.  In 2000, the Lord spoke the words “Extravagant Worship” to Apostle Sheila, and since that time the desire to utilize the fine arts in the church to express this extravagant worship has been her heartbeat, using banners, flags, streamers, dancers, actors, musicians, and artists in worship. 

   Apostle Sheila has raised up dance teams of all ages in various churches, as well as her own personal dance team ministry known as Spirit of David.  She believes that not only is dance an expression of worship to God, but dance is an expression of God to the people.  Apostle Sheila is also used of God in the Prophetic office to bring healing, restoration, encouragement and direction to the Body. 

  Apostles Rick & Sheila have been called by God to preach the Gospel of Christ and His Kingdom to a world that has been disillusioned by tradition and religion, to declare to the sons of God that Christ has reconciled every man unto God, and to proclaim that we are the temples of God in the earth.  They believe that the Kingdom of God is based on relationship and not religion.  They believe that we are a priesthood of believers with Jesus being our great High Priest.  They believe in the Melchizedek order of ministry established in the New Testament, and that the all-encompassing ministry is the ministry of reconciliation in that Christ has reconciled every man unto God.