It was one of the most trying days of my life; May 21, 2003. I was at work within a financial institution, when I received an out of state call from PA., with some devastating family news. Immediately my heart began to pound and the tears filled my eyes. I called my husband at work to inform him about the call, and that I was leaving work. He said he would meet me at home.  I remember getting into my car and driving; however, I really don’t remember how I got home.  It was like the car took me home; instead of me taking the car home. 

When I got home, my husband was already there waiting for me. We sat holding hands, talking, tears streaming down my face; and we turned to the only help we know – “The Lord’.  We began to pray asking Him to intervene in the matter. We reminded Him of His promises to us and our family.  We stood on His Word.

After we prayed, all of a sudden, a strange feeling came over me. It was as if my body had gotten so light that I couldn’t feel myself.  There was this feeling of ‘floating in air’. I felt as if my weight was that of a feather. Then, an extreme sensation of sleep came over me.  I remember telling my husband “I don’t understand the way I feel, but I feel so light and sleepy. I am floating and I need to go to bed.”  He said to me “Okay,  I’ll go back to work so you can sleep.”

My husband left and I went into our bedroom and got into bed. I remember looking at the clock and the time was 3:25 p.m. And that was the last time I consciously remember the time of day.  I fell asleep, but strangely I was not in a deep sleep. While my body was lying in bed, my spirit came out of my body and was suspended above our bed.

I went into this “Vision-like” state, when a tall man came towards me and began talking to me.  He knew my name and everything about my life, because He spoke to me about my life.   I knew He was the Lord.

He began telling me things that I must do in my life.  As He spoke to me, He began to write; but it was strange again.  He did not write on paper, but on my mind. It was like He was engraving what He was telling me on my mind.

The Lord engraved the structure of our ministry as well as some instructions on my mind; as if to make sure I did not forget.  He gave me the names of the core/founding ministries within the ministry.

• He called the Ministers of the Gospel “Levites”,
• Christian Education He called “School of Knowledge”
• The Men He called “Sons of Isaac”
• The Women He called “Daughters of Abraham”
• The Children He called “Children of Jacob”
• The Ushers He called “Keepers of the Gates”.
• “The Praise Team He called “Morning Glory”,
• The Choir He called “Redeemed Voices of Worship”.

 He stressed “Righteousness” and “Holiness” in my life and within the Ministry.  That “Time Is Running Out!” Some of the other instructions He gave me were these:

1. Teach My People
2. Tell then I say that the grounds on which the Ministry stands is “Holy Ground”
3. Tell them I say that for anyone to occupy an office within the Ministry, he/she MUST  Walk Up-Right before Me.

All during this time, somehow I knew that even though I was suppose to be lying in bed, I was above my bed.  When our children came home, it was like I knew, but I was in this “Vision State” and could not get out. I could hear them, but faintly as if they were over many hills away from me.

The Lord was still speaking to me; and as He spoke, He grew so much taller.  I became far down as in a hole and He was all the way up from me. I saw His very large hand reach down to me; and as He pulled me up, said to me “NOW GO!”  “I HAVE SENT YOU!”

My spirit went back into my body on our bed and I woke up; and looking at the clock across from our bed, it showed 9:00 p.m. This had been a five +-hour encounter with the Lord.

I immediately reached for the paper and pen I kept on my night stand. I keep paper and pen near, because many things are revealed to me in “night visions”. I sketched the ministry’s outline from my mind unto to paper.

 As I did, my husband walked into the room and said “Oh you’re up. I came in, but you were in deep sleep.” I replied, “I was not sleeping, but talking with the Lord.”  He then said “Really? You were sound asleep to me.”  I handed him the sketch and looking at it said to me “This is the structure of a ministry. Where did you get it from?   I said “It is what the Lord was giving to me.

My husband asked me “What are you going to do with it?” I replied “Put it on my Prayer Altar until the Lord speaks again and tell me when”. That night I placed it on my prayer altar waiting for what I called "the right time”.

On Sunday September 14, 2003, the Lord quietly asked me three questions.

1. The first was, "When will you launch the ministry I have given you?"   I replied "I don't have a place.”
2. As I said that, He asked the second question, "Don't you have a living room?"   I answered "Yes, I do, but who do I start the ministry with?"
3. His third question was "Don't you have a family?"   I asked Him “Do You mean I should take me family in our living?                      

He said “Not just that!     BUT, you will dress your children;     Take them to the living room, NOT to have “Morning Prayer”,      BUT to have “Church”.             I then said “Okay Lord, I will launch the ministry now."

I informed my husband when he came home and  Redemption Harvest Ministries and Redemption Harvest Tabernacle of Praise were launched the following Sunday, September 21, 2003, in the living room of our 1522 Ruffin Street home.  Our family minus my husband, because he was the Minister of Music at the church we attended; and was scheduled to play that Sunday.

Only six (6) persons were in the first service. We were:

1. Rev. Elspeth Walker,
2. Minister Amelia P. Wleh,
3. Minister Gladys Youn Jlopleh,
4. Evangelist Elizabeth W. Mentar,
5. JoEl Walker, and
6. Onisumus Wleh Walker

I don’t understand why the Lord give me Redemption Harvest on the day He did, because it was a crashing day in my life, BUT I give Him ALL THE GLORY that He did.

And so to let you know, He also worked out the problem and gave us the VICTORY.

HALLELUJAH!!!!!!

Thanks and God Bless

Overseer Elspeth Walker