Jeff and Faith Oliver
Jeff Oliver is a 1981-82 graduate and alumni of Rhema Bible Training College in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jeff served seven years as Lead Pastor of Church on the Vine in Clermont, Florida, before marrying his wife and sweetheart, Faith, in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 2004.
Jeff was an Associate Pastor for a large church in Lakeland, Florida, in 2006, when he began studying Pentecostal history and learned that the Pentecostal and charismatic movements had precursors in other movements dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. It seemed no matter how far back he went, there was always more. Finally, he heard the Lord challenge him one day, saying, “Why don’t you go back to the day of Pentecost where it all began and study church history in the order that the events actually took place?” Jeff accepted that challenge and what he learned was nothing short of shocking and amazing in light of an abbreviated Pentecostal history.
In 2016, Jeff founded Global Wakening, a ministry that is inspiring and equipping a new generation with a supernatural Christian worldview. In addition to traveling and speaking, Jeff currently serves as Associate Pastor, MSU Teacher, and former Publications Managing Editor for MorningStar Ministries in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
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Faith Oliver is the daughter of an Assemblies of God pastor and missionary to the Native Americans. Growing up in Pennsylvania and on Indian reservations across the American Midwest, Faith knew that “toughing it out” on the mission field would one day enable her to help others. Using historical women of faith as role models, Faith desires to see women operate in their gifts and calling both in ministry and in the home.
Faith received her education at North Central University in Minneapolis and at Liberty University's Long Distance Learning Program. She has served as a Senior Sales Director for Mary Kay Cosmetics, a Volunteer Coordinator for Youth for Christ, a women’s counselor, fifteen years as a Certified Medical Coder, and currently leads the 50+ Women's Ministry at MorningStar. Faith also loves to crosstitch in her sparetime.