In November, 2017 Ralph and Austin (his team member for this trip) will be heading to eastern Russia to minister in the cities of Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil. Ralph has worked in this area a number of times in the last few years including a trip in January, 2017.

We have just added an extra week to this trip … It is now November 1st to the 20th. The additional time will be spent ministering in the city of Ivanovo. Ralph has ministered several times in this city a number of years ago and has just been invited to a local church where he ministered one Sunday morning … He will be holding a regional leadership school (Wednesday through Saturday) and ministering in a number of local churches on the Sunday.

He is looking forward to ministering in a number of local churches as well as in leaders meetings and youth events. God is moving mightily in Russia and He is raising up strong local churches who are moving in the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and power.

His team member from Southern Manitoba, Canada…

My name is Austin Fehr. I am 18 years old and I live in Winkler, Manitoba, Canada. I currently work at Winkler Canvas repairing tarps, and have been there since June 2015.

I became a Christian at the age of 3, I attended church as long as I can remember. In March 2017 I went to a Friday night youth group called “Wildfire” in my city and then a Saturday night service at “Flood and Fire” – an amazing group of believers the following day. Since both groups welcome the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and have people exercising the gifts of the Spirit, I now attend both groups regularly. Since I started going to these two weekly meetings I have seen amazing growth in my relationship with God, as well as learning to move in the gifts of the Spirit.

In July 2016 Ralph prophesied over me. He told me that I would be a leader in the business world as well as in the church world, and that my ministry would take place in many nations in the world. Three months prior to that prophecy God gave me the idea of starting a clothing line, that for every product sold, would feed someone in a country in need for seven days. Ralph’s prophecy over me was a confirmation that I was on the right track in my life. I am excited that my online clothing line will be starting in May or June of 2017 and I believe this will be my career for many years.

I am very excited to be going to Russia to build relationships and express the love that God has given me for people. I am also excited that I am going to meet fellow believers in Russia and have opportunity to share our experiences of the Lord with each other. I know that when I come home I will have a much different perspective as to how people in other areas of the world experience God in their everyday lives.

Ralph and his team (Jesse Matos) will be travelling to Kazakhstan to minister in June, 2017 (June 13th to the 26th). Ralph ministers in this amazing nation several times a year and he is looking forward to being there once again among God’s awesome and wonderful people.

Each of his last three trips he has taken a team member with him as God directed him to do a year ago. Several young men from Ohio (Jeremy Wachtel and Jacob Wachtel) and a seasoned apostle from Ohio (Bill Lewis) have made excellent team members and have been an asset to the ministry. This trip he again has a young man from Ohio, a student at a local Bible School in Columbus, the capital of the state.

Let’s allow him to introduce himself….

Hi! My name is Jesse Matos, a 19 year old college student from The United States with a veracious love for adventure, people, and Jesus! I currently attend school at Valour Christian College at World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio where I am studying Missions and will have an Associates degree by Spring 2018.

Now being in college, when someone asks me where I live I often say that my “fake” home is in Columbus on my school campus and my “not fake” home is in Marengo, Ohio (small town north of Columbus).

I am originally from Cleveland, Ohio and have lived multiple places in Central Ohio for the past 14 years. It was in Columbus, Ohio at World Harvest Church that I met Jesus and accepted Him as my Lord and Saviour. In fact, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit there.

Now I am going to college on the same ground I was saved   and filled, baptized in the Holy Spirit, at.                                          Some say coincidence but I say Jesus!

After I am done with formal education I plan to serve God in an apostolic role; what that entails has not been revealed fully to me, but my desire is to see a force of people going into the world and doing good works with the Holy Spirit so that all people might see that the only way to live is through Jesus. A little abstract but it serves its purpose for now.

Some fun facts: I read, write stories, and take photos; been to El Salvador once; I run on trails (when its warm); and I go to movie theatres mostly for the popcorn.

I am excited to be traveling with Ralph and am even more excited to be a part of what God is doing through his ministry in many nations of the world.

The nation of Kazakstan is central to all that God is doing today in Central Asia and is the centre of a very powerful youth movement that is impacting many of the nations in the region.