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OUR STORY

The Birth

Holy Spirit Ranch Ministries (HSRM) was established as a 501c3 in 2004, and has been reaching further and further ever since.

The ministry first came in the form of camps for underprivileged children of the metropolitan Atlanta, GA area at our home base in Jasper, GA. Our base has the blessing of being planted at the foot of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, making it a haven for fellowship, growth and inspiration by God’s amazing creation. This is where our name came from, because God gave us the privilege of establishing a “ranch” where rest and growth were corralled in abundance. These camps consisted of Bible study, teachings, worship, play and most important, seeing the depth of God’s love for His people and children.

During these early years of the ministry, alongside the camps, HSRM hosted youth groups and Bible studies on Friday nights, furthering the lessons started and harboring more space for young people to learn about the Lord and spend time together to be encouraged and strengthened

In 2012, the ministry took several steps off base and began a now 10-year ministry in Atlanta, Georgia working with the overwhelmingly large homeless community downtown. Since this ministry began, Holy Spirit Ranch Ministries has not missed a single Sunday of services until COVID 19 restrictions and giving to the homeless in downtown Atlanta, making that a God-breathed 8+ years of Sunday afternoons. We do a service of teaching and encouraging, time of worship, food drive, supplies giveaway (blankets, clothes, band aids, toiletries, etc.), prayer and anything else we feel God wants to share that week.   Presently, we are doing our Sunday Worship Service and Training Center at 140 Cornerstone Dr. Jasper, Georgia every 1PM. Everyone is welcome to worship with us weather online or in person to experience God’s awesome presence. So, if you think of us on a Sunday afternoon, send up a prayer, because we will be there, rain or shine. 

Around the same time our Homeless Outreach began, God opened a door in South Dakota. He called us to go to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to embark on investing in a friendship with the Native American Lakota People. Here, we have invested in relationships and grown friendships with people living on this reservation that has a history of strongholds of violence, poverty and spiritual deadness. As a part of our relationship with the Lakota people, we bring them supplies, clothing and food each year. In our time there, we share Gospel teachings, pray for healing of the land, provide encouragement, and offer a free dental clinic to all who come. There is so much more that God has in store for these people and we will continue to walk with the Lakota people until God’s love has moved every life.

A couple of years later, God gave HSRM our first urgency to jump across the ocean. God opened a door to set our feet in Kenya, Africa. Our outreaches to Kenya have reached a total of 3, each being 2-5 weeks at a time. God not only told us to go to Kenya, but He told us to bring supplies, food, water and gifts with us. We have traveled throughout the country bringing the love of Jesus to every person we encounter. After the years of international communication and intermittent personal visits, we have established strong friendships and relationships with people in Kenya, particularly the Masai Tribe and small church congregations in the surrounding remote areas. We have brought thousands of pounds of rice, beans and maize, and have managed to build a latrine in Masai Land, providing a sanitary waste system for hundreds of the Kenyan people in this region. We also partnered with STUDIO NG’AARI ART CENTER. (S.N.A.C) a volunteer-based Art center that was initially started as a way of giving back to society by providing a platform for growth in artist creativity for the kids within a very needy community. S.N.A.C has 80 students that are registered with it and enrolled in the different programs that it has.

Not long after that, God called us to our outreach in the Philippine Islands. We have, so far, gone on four trips to The Philippines and have seen incredible growth and revival there. God enabled us to bring overwhelming amounts of rice and beans to the people and blessed us with seeing just as many salvations. God is doing serious work in the Philippines right now and has allowed HSRM to be part of His plan. We are involved in Biblical teaching, encouraging, supporting established churches and partners, street evangelizing, and supplies/food giveaways in the impoverished Philippine villages and slums. We had a very successful medical, dental and optical mission a couple of years before the pandemic served thousands of patients, including tribes in the remote areas and very needy communities and slums, and thankfully many salvations.

We established our headquarters/training center in the Philippines. This office is where we handle administration, fundraising, and implementing fast-track training of people to speak the good news of Jesus. Presently we have a regular staff, adult and youth volunteers. They are helping us with our “Kids Ministry” a project that teach the children essential reading, writing, counting, and Bible lessons. Moreover, we launched the “SPY” (Someone is Praying for You) Program, which aims to reach out through calls and send messages to those who have been recipients of the organization’s previous projects and outreaches. Our volunteers are doing calls to minister to them through prayers and sending words of encouragement.

We believe God has a lot more opportunities in store for us to serve in, and we are so humbled and blessed to be able to look forward to more adventures with Him. So many of the people we have met and will meet need to hear and feel God’s love, and we hope God uses our story to inspire you to bring the gift He has given to so many more.

With the love of Christ,

Holy Spirit Ranch Ministries Team

THE VISION

“Love one another as I have loved you”

John 15:12

TO PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THE SPIRITUALLY HURT AND OPPRESSED CAN BE MADE WHOLE, THE STABLE CHRISTIAN CAN BE STRENGTHENED AND THE UNSAVED CAN FIND SALVATION THROUGH THE LOVE OF JESUS AND THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WE WANT TO KINDLE A BURNING PASSION WITHIN OTHERS TO WALK IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

“But He who is joined to the Lord is one with spirit with Him”

1 Corithians 6:17

Our Core Values

STATEMENT OF FAITH

We believe in “The Full Godhead” – God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Bible is God’s Living Word. We believe that you don’t have to be a Theologian to help, to heal or to spread the Gospel through the Holy Spirit.

We believe that salvation is a free gift of God as proclaimed in the Scriptures. We believe salvation is a gift that has been purchased by and kept by the sacrifice and shed blood of Jesus Christ.

We believe in our hearts that the shed blood of Jesus has cleansed us from all sin and that there is nothing left that we can be accused of before the Father.

We believe and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

We believe the gospel of Jesus Christ can transcend all barriers, regardless of origin, nationality, culture, religious, economic, etc.

We believe in the existence and proper operation of all the gifts of the Spirit, as proclaimed in the Scriptures in the lives of believers today, given to each believer as the Holy Spirit wills, for the purpose of edification and building of the body of Christ.

We believe men divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit of God wrote the Holy Scriptures.

We believe the Holy Scriptures are God’s revelation of Himself to man. We believe the Holy Scriptures have God for their author, salvation for its end, and truth for its matter.

We believe the criterion by which the Scriptures are to be interpreted is the Holy Spirit, the same yesterday, today, and forever, unchangeable. We believe the Scriptures speak today to the hearts and minds of all who read them prayerfully and carefully.