Meet The Team

Pastor Sheera was called into full-time ministry in 1995 and called to the nations three years later. She and her husband, Pastor Theodore, have lived and ministered at varying lengths in India, Thailand, Israel, Nepal, Vietnam, and the Czech Republic.

Pastor YJ was called to ministry by God at the age of 8. However, he did not surrender to the call until the age of 17 after being discipled. Once he graduated from college and seminary and finished his pastoral residency, he was officially ordained as a Reverend and began full-time pastoral ministry. He is currently the International Director of Seekers Christian Fellowship and also pastors two immigrant churches in NYC: Citizen Presbyterian Church and New York Church of Acts.

My name is Terence Aponshine, I was born in the Northwest region of Cameroon called Bamenda. As a young Cameroon of about eight to twelve years of age, the Lord developed in me a love for him, which manifested through a strong desire to attend church even if my parents were unable to go with me. I would often prepare myself to serve with an unmatched eagerness. My experience in the Church at an early age made me want to be a Pastor. When asked what I wanted to be in the future, I would say a Pastor or Doctor. I am very passionate to serve the Lord in any capacity. Sunday was and still is my favorite day of the week because I get to meet with other believers to worship and serve the Lord.

In 2003, I immigrated to the United State at the age of seventeen, I decided to join the Army in September of 2015, four years after I got married in 2011. Together we have three boys. I joined the Army because I felt a deep sense of gratitude to God for what he built this Nation to become. Not only would God, through the Army provide a more stable life for my family, but it would also be a channel for his Word to spread amongst my peers. It has been and still is a personal joy of mine to be used by God in the Army. With all the benefits offered by the Army, I am currently pursuing my bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security.

In June of 2011, I joined World Outreach Christian Life Center Ministry (WOCLCM) pastored by Pastor Sylvia P Laughlin based in Tampa Florida. The Holy Spirit has given me a hunger for truth that is undefiled or uncompromised by the culture. It is by that hunger that the Lord led me to WOCLCM through the World Trumpet Mission led by Dr. John Mulinde. Many doors have been opened for me to serve the Lord through WOCLCM but the most rewarding of all is the opportunity to serve in the Altar Of Prayer (AOP). I give Glory to God almighty for placing me amongst a body, through which I am fed the meat of the Word. Amen.

My name is Rich Arnold. I will be 81 years old this June. I am a retired teacher, school principal, counselor, and special education director having started two Christian schools in Minnesota. I lived the first twenty-nine years of my life without any contact with the reality of the spiritual dimension. My parents hardly attended church nor were they interested in anything involving the Bible, God, or spiritual things. They were good and upright people without God in their lives. Essentially, I was raised without any influence of the spiritual upon my life. I lived a secular life all through elementary, middle high school, college, and the first three years as a teacher in public schools.

It was not until I was working on my master’s degree at the University of North Dakota that my life started to deteriorate quickly and I found myself smoking “weed” and running around with a bunch of atheists on the university campus and doing other things that a lost soul would do without Christ and a biblical foundation. After receiving my degree, I accepted a public school principal position in a small school district in northern Minnesota. The first day I moved into the community, I found myself walking by a large Lutheran Church and felt that I should go inside and ask for help. The secretary indicated that the pastor was at the golf course playing golf with his two sons. I asked her where the golf course was located. After giving me directions, I went to the golf course and saw a man and two boys coming off the 18th green. I went up to the man and asked if he was Pastor Lindgren. He acknowledged he was Pastor Lindgren and asked if I could talk with him. We drove back to the church, and he met with me for about an hour, listening to my life story, my take on life, and how I was reaching a point of nothingness and experiencing no purpose in life. He did a lot of listening and when I finally quit talking his only comment was that I needed Jesus!

So, he shared with me the four spiritual laws (1 - Acknowledge your sinner, 2 - Confess your sins, 3 - Ask for forgiveness, and 4 - Accept and receive Jesus Christ into your heart). This was all Greek to me, but something was telling me that this was the truth he was sharing with me. I told him that I would think about this and come back in a week. During the week, Pastor Lindgren would call me and ask how I was doing and even invited me to his home for dinner. He was a true shepherd tending to a lost soul that would eventually come into the kingdom of God. This man had a shepherd’s heart and was genuinely concerned about my spiritual welfare. He and his wife extended themselves to me and the Lord used them to usher me into a salvation experience.

One week later, on a Friday night, I told Pastor Lindgren that since I had tried a lot of the negative things that life had to offer, I might as well try to see if there really was a God who could rescue me from the mess my life was in.

So, I knelt down with Pastor Lindgren and prayed the sinner’s prayer. Nothing happened in terms of bells or whistles. But I truly did mean what I prayed because I was at the “bottom of life.” If God was in this, then for sure I needed Him to come and do something in my life to set me free from the inner turmoil, distress, and thoughts of suicide.

The next morning (Saturday), I got up, put on my running shoes, and left my apartment to start running in the brisk, cool, and clear air of northern Minnesota. As I was running, I said to myself while I looked into the clear blue sky, “My, I have never seen a blue sky like this before.” As I ran a little further, I noticed how green the grass was. Again, I said to myself, “My, I have never seen green grass like this.” The further I ran, I began to feel light as a feather as if a ton of bricks were taken off my back. As soon as I got back to my apartment, I called Pastor Lindgren and told him what I was experiencing. I said, “Pastor, what is happening to me?” He said, “Rich you have been “born again,” I responded, “Is that what they call it.” He said, “That is what the Bible calls it.”

From that moment on life looked different and felt different. During my one-year tenure in this little community as a principal of K-12 country schools, Pastor Lindgren and Pastor Carlson, the other Lutheran Pastor, took me under their wing and discipled me as a shepherd tends his sheep. It was truly God’s provision for me that through these loving pastors and their families His grace and truth took hold of my inner man and the transformation began. A week later, Pastor Lindgren said, “Rich, I need to tell you that the Lord has something else for you.” I said, “What is it.” He said, “I want you to read the Book of Acts and notice the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues.” By this time, He had given me a Bible and I was familiarizing myself with the different books in the Bible. I thought, well if this is also for me, I want this too. I want everything God has for me!

So, two weeks later, Pastor Lindgen and a lady prayed for me again and I received the second experience with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Water baptism via immersion followed. Those two experiences were more than forty years ago. Since then, I have been an educator in public schools until I had a great affliction in my life a few years ago. The day after the affliction, I picked up my Bible and for some reason turned to Numbers 11:1 which reads,

"Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. I heard the Lord say to me, “This affliction that has come into your life is of my hand, and I do not want to hear you complain about it. I want you to begin to seriously seek me by being in My Word and in prayer. Two weeks after the Lord spoke this word, I woke one night from a dream where I heard the audible voice of the Lord say to me, “I have come to consume all of your heart. I have come to consume all of your heart. I have come to consume all of your heart.”

A week later, I awoke from a second dream from the Lord and recalled seeing in my dream a flashing neon sign that read, O.B.E.D.I.E.N.C.E.

After these two dreams, I began spending hours in His word and deep and intensive prayer and worship of Him. As I read, pondered, and digested His word, He would say to me: “Now go to your computer and begin to transcribe what I am giving to you.”

I would start keyboarding His revelations which would come like water coming out of a facet. I would write and write and write and still am writing as He imparts His word behind His word to my spirit, heart, and mind. The more I would seek Him, the flow of His thoughts would increase and become diverse in terms of oracle writing, prophetic poetry, dreams, short nuggets of revelations, prophetic utterances, words of knowledge, etc. He has literally poured into me over 30,000 thousand pages of revelation and it continues to this day. I write several hours a day and have been doing this for the last few years.

I ask Him, “Lord what do you want me to do with all of this? All that you have given me is yours and it is not mine. I am only the scribe and voice of your messages.” He says to me, “I want you to go and testify of Me to everyone you meet. I will open the doors and shut the doors where I want you to go and proclaim the Words, I have imparted to you. Remain faithful and cherish the small things I will bring to you for My Will for you is in the small things – the things which others think are insignificant.

I submit to you two prophetic words the Lord first spoke to me 15 years ago. I believe they will encourage you and those who love Him with all their hearts. These prophetic words are instructive, directional, encouraging, exhorting, and healing. They are to me, and I hope they are to you.

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“Your Life is in My Hands!” I hear the Lord say to me, Son, do not think I do not love you when you experience the things which cause you to question me. For the things I have chosen for you to walk through are to clean you up, polish you, and get you ready to meet My Son who is soon to come. I will not let you go down a path of walking away from me for I have invested too much in you at this point in time to be My servant. As long as you keep listening and responding to My hand of grace and favor, I will continue to see you through these dark and gloomy times which man has brought and is bringing upon the earth. You do not have to fear or be concerned of the things happening to you for they are all of My hand for I know what you need and how to bring the right amount of mixture of grace and discipline to you. I am your Father who loves you immensely and want you to know that your years of serving Me are not over yet. There is much more I have for you to do for many are crying out to hear and see those who walk in the gospel light and speak Truth. You have much to tell and proclaim for the things you say and write are from My revelations to your mind and heart. All that I give you is not just going to be tucked away in some dark corner but will reach all those I have appointed to hear the words I give you.

You have been chosen and raised up at this time and at this late hour to be My servant to serve. What your eyes see, what your heart desires, and what you think and do will determine your usefulness to Me. Be careful and walk in My Light for I say to you….Narrow is the road to walk on and narrow is the gate to go through. But wide is the road and wide is the gate and many walk this road by neglecting Me and My commandments. Your life is in My hands and as long as you walk this narrow road of righteousness and go through the narrow gate of mercy and favor, you will reach the destination I have plotted for you before you were even born. Keep on learning through the many ways I am teaching you for all your preparations are for teaching, warning, exhorting, and encouraging others to also walk the narrow road and enter the kingdom through the narrow gate as well as getting you ready to stand before My Son who will speak to you at that appointed time.

All that we are called to do, is to prepare us to meet God’s Son – the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Let us not forget this!

Reverend "Bernie" Dorsey is the Founder, Chairman, and Executive Director of Transforming Spirit Ministries, Inc. He has oversight of approximately thirty Transforming Spirit Churches in Africa and he organizes multiple mission projects across the United States, Africa, and Asia to support some of the world’s poorest people.​

Bernie graduated from Duke University (A.B., History 1994) and earned a Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington University Law School (1997). After clerking for a federal appellate court Judge, he entered private practice where he specialized in transactional real estate and civil litigation matters. Then, like many of the apostles and prophets of old, one day while at work he heard God’s call to ministry as the Spirit spoke to him from Romans 10:14-15. He attended seminary as a Master of Divinity student at Washington Baptist Theological Seminary and completed additional coursework as a Dean’s Scholar at Wesley Theological Seminary. He was licensed by Mount Zion Baptist Church in Washington, DC in 2009 and ordained and set apart for the work of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in 2012. Ultimately, he abandoned the practice of law to serve full-time in ministry.​

After much prayer and a prophetic word from a Messianic Jewish prophetess, Bernie planted Transforming Spirit Church, a non-denominational church on the outskirts of Washington, DC. Transforming Spirit developed a culture of worship, prophetic utterance, and equipping. Bernie says: “In the atmosphere of worship, miracles happen! And we as leaders need to equip and train other disciples to find their own destinies and go beyond church walls to serve God by serving others.” Transforming Spirit moved to the nation’s capital in December 2018 in the form of a fellowship with the Historic St. Paul AUMP Church. Bernie simultaneously served as Pastor of HSP from July 2020 until October 2022.​

Bernie has a heart for the nations. He has conducted more than twenty separate missions to Africa. From Uganda to Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Liberia, he has planted churches, conducted leadership conferences to train and equip African ministers, and organized projects to serve the poor. He has also served as a keynote preacher for numerous evangelistic events in those nations where, at open-air gatherings, thousands of people have come to salvation in Jesus Christ and instant miracles of deliverance and healing occur, including the disappearance of tumors, reversal of heart conditions, the lame walking, limbs regaining function, and even the blind receiving sight. Bernie often remarks: “Jesus really is still alive doing what He did while on earth: saving, delivering, and healing!”

In Asia, Bernie has contributed since 2014 in India, where he has partnered with and supported the work of Pastor Timothy Bontha. They have worked to feed the poor and to reach those in tribal regions of Southeastern India who have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. Bernie is also an unabashed and avid supporter of Israel and the Jewish people. He has authored an opinion piece on the rise of anti-semitism and the need for people of faith to stand against this disturbing trend. https://afro.com/afro-exclusive-op-ed-d-c-area-pastors-on-rise-of-antisemitism%EF%BF%BC/

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Bernie is deeply committed to his wife of twenty-four years, the former Ericka Guthrie, a civil rights attorney in Washington, DC. They are the parents of two sons: Nelson III, a student at Bowdoin College; and Houston, a student at St. Albans School in Washington, DC.

In 2000, Jacki answered a call into ministry. Her calling is to train up God’s Army of Intercessors by teaching people how to go deeper into the Father’s heart through prayer. She is a certified lay counselor and mentor. Her mission is to teach people how to define themselves in Jesus Christ so that He becomes their identity, destiny, and legacy. Jacki compassionately brings Jesus to the forefront of hearts so that people beautifully experience Jesus in their lives – especially during the tough times and trials.

Through her leadership in teaching Prayer Intensive Classes, Bible studies, Lay Counseling, Mentorship, and Prayer, Jacki equips families to let Jesus become “the Standard” and “the Source” of their lives.

Jacki has authored two prayer manuals, which are the first two books of the Warrior Daughter Series. “Warrior Daughter You are Called to Pray without Ceasing” and “Called to Pray the Heart of God” have transformed many prayer lives. The third book in the series, “Praying as More than a Conqueror in Christ” is currently underway. She teaches churches how to establish on-site prayer rooms while training church members how to pray effectually over others. Her mission is to teach families, and churches, how to pray together so they victoriously experience the heart of God in prayer. She serves on intercessory prayer teams and is a dynamic speaker at women’s conferences and events.

Pastor Sylvia Laughlin is the Senior Pastor at World Outreach Christian Life Center Ministries in Orlando, Florida. She was born and raised in Charlotte, N.C., and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Studies from Excelsior College, New York. Pastor Laughlin enlisted in the Army in 1984 in the Adjutant General Corps. She is a graduate of the Drill Sergeant School, Recruiting School, First Sergeant Course, Defense Equal Opportunity Institute, and Sergeant Major Academy. Pastor Laughlin earned numerous U.S. Army awards and decorations during her career including the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medals, Army Commendation Medals, Army Achievement Medals, and the National Defense Service Medal. She developed a love for serving God through serving others as well as her country during her many Army assignments around the globe from the Marshall Islands, Korea, Germany, and throughout the United States of America.

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Since retiring from the Army, Pastor Laughlin has continued to preach and teach the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in her community as well as to the world. She has now been reassigned by her commanding officer (the Lord of Heaven's Armies) to serve and assist in building the Army of the Lord. In 2020, Sylvia co-labored with other visionaries as the Lord established the Altar of Prayer, a 24/7 virtual house of prayer. 

Sylvia has served in Uganda as a missionary with World Trumpet Missions under Dr. John Mulinde. She has also served as a missionary in Kenya and Liberia with Transforming Spirit Ministries under Pastor Bernie Dorsey. She currently serves the Body of Christ as one of the facilitators and pastors over the online weekly Bible Study fellowship at www.touroftruth.com

Pastor is Shayne is one of the discipleship teaching facilitators with Tour of Truth. He is also the Founder and Director of Elim Global Missions Initiative (EGMI), based in Staten Island, New York. EGMI catalyzes spiritual awakening and revival around the world. The ministry partners with churches, businesses, communities, regions, and entire nations to help bring about spiritual awakening. It equips the revived with short and longer-term training to provoke them to discover and pursue God’s individual and corporate destiny. 

Pastor Payne hosts a radio Program called Return to the God of the Bible. He leads a regional prayer altar, and serves as the Senior Pastor at Elim Christian Assembly. He is also a covenant partner with World Trumpet Missions, a globally focused revival-oriented missionary organization headquartered in Kampala, Uganda. Shayne speaks locally and internationally about spiritual realities and how they influence nations, the tools of effective intercession, raising and maintaining personal, regional, and national prayer altars, revival, and community transformation. His published books are Walking with the God of the Bible, Lessons from the Great Intercessors, A Different Vantage Point, and Understanding the Grip of Darkness on People and Nations. Mr. Payne received degrees in Economics, psychology (BA), and Accounting (AS). He spent 12 years as a principal in the financial, real estate, and automotive industries before transitioning to pursue his life’s destiny. Shayne and his wife, Wendy, have been married for 20 years and live in Staten Island with their three sons.

Jed Robyn has been a disciple of Jesus the Messiah for over 30 years. He has been a husband for close to 25 years and is the father of two amazing grown children. Jed's deep passion is to help believers find their life, joy, and purpose in God and take their place in the Body of Christ. Jed is called to help disciples grow in their understanding of the Gospel of the Kingdom, the prophetic importance of the restoration of Israel, and God's heart for reconciliation, unity, and oneness as He calls forth a remnant of faithful believers from every tribe and tongue.

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Jed has a B.A. in Psychology, an M.Ed in Student Affairs, and is an ordained minister. He has a professional background in student development, and in addition to serving in various roles in the marketplace, he has served as a preacher and prayer leader both in the US and internationally in Canada, the UK, Israel, and locations in Africa and Asia. Jed has served as a missionary to Kenya and Liberia with Transforming Spirit Ministries under Pastor Bernie Dorsey.

Krista Smith has been following Jesus for 41 years. In 2002, she established a Christian school located in Greenville, SC which continues to train 200+ students annually. She has been an avid student of the Bible from the age of 9, and has been leading Bible studies for more than 20 years. Krista volunteers as a facilitator and Director at Tour of Truth. She wrote and published "Don't Die in the Pew" in 2018. In 2020, Krista co-labored with other visionaries as the Lord established the Altar of Prayer (a 24/7 virtual house of prayer). She served as a missionary in Kenya and Liberia with Transformation Spirit Ministries under Pastor Bernie Dorsey. 

She has been called to serve the Body of Christ as a watchman, a standard-bearer, and a disciple who helps to make disciples by leading and encouraging believers in the Word of the Lord. Her journey of faith includes over three decades of biblical study, a prophetic dream in 2005, and an urgent message for the sleeping Church to wake up. Krista is passionate about Jesus, His Holy Word, Israel, and His bride the TRUE Church (which includes both Jews & Gentiles).