About Us

A prophet once prophesied to Stephanie that her family was a "family ordained to bring forth the ministry." That word was given to her in 1986, three years before Rob and Stephanie even knew each other or were married! Sure enough, this family, which was described in the prophecy as including a husband, a wife, two girls, and a boy, has been involved in proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ from the start.

Stephanie and Rob began ministering together in word and music at a Teen Challenge drug and alcohol rehab center in Atlanta, Georgia in the summer of 1989. The next summer they began their overseas mission work in France and England, accompanied by Chelsea, who was two months old at the time. The following two summers they continued missions to England and Ireland, and in 1993 shipped themselves, along with Chelsea and baby sister, Brittany, as well as Class C motor home and a tote trailer (packed to the hilt with P.A. gear and musical instruments) to Ireland, where they lived and ministered for two years. Rob, having recently co-produced and recorded three originally written and arranged contemporary Christian CDs on which he plays sax and performs lead vocals, shared in word and song throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland, shaking up the hard-line religious traditionalists and bringing conviction of sins to the unchurched as "The Right Reverend Robi J, from Atlanta G-A." While ministering in the U.K., he joined forces with George and Hazel Miller (of what was then, Impact Missions) and their team of evangelists and intercessors. During those times they saw God move in great power through their outreaches, and many souls were saved and many healings performed to the glory of God.

Rob had been called by the Lord into ministry from his youth. This was revealed to his grandmother, Lois McGriff, when he was a small child. Throughout his youth, he exercised a somewhat sporadic faith in God, until the Woodstock generation and the sub-cultural revolution of the sixties and seventies wooed him into their own particular brand of idolatry and sorcery. He was saved in 1972 at the age of nineteen after having been hospitalized because of a powerful drug overdose. His sister, Jeanie, led him in a sinner’s prayer, and he asked Jesus to come into his heart and forgive him for his sins. After that he moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Greenville, New Hampshire, where he worked on a farm, lived in a cabin in the New England woods, and wrote Christian poetry.

By 1974 at the age of twenty one, due in large part to the fact that he had no fellowship with like-minded believers who could disciple and mentor him, neither had he received the baptism with the Holy Spirit, he became discouraged in his apparent inability to live the Christian life and walk the Christian walk. He began to backslide. At the time he didn't realize that Christ would live it and walk it in him and through him by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. By 1977 at the age of twenty-four he was living in Woodstock, New York, attending music school, practicing Buddhism and living in sin with a practicing witch! It was at this time that the Lord miraculously intervened in his life (in no small part because of his mother's and sister's prayers) and delivered him from great darkness and the snare of the devil. He repented of his sins, and his faith towards God was renewed and restored. He became involved with a Christian fellowship in Woodstock N.Y., and, while attending a Full Gospel Business Men's Dinner in Kingston N.Y., he was delivered from alcohol and nicotine addiction and filled with the Holy Spirit. Not long after that the Lord called and anointed him into the ministry while on a Christmas holiday at his home in Atlanta, GA.

At the time of his calling into ministry the Lord gave Rob two separate prophesies, at two separate times, in two separate places, by two individual prophets. In both prophesies the phrase, "the Lord has something special here" was used. (This of course was speaking of a special anointing for service and not implying that there was anything "special" about the vessel that God had chosen to use.) Soon after that, the Lord gave him the scriptures found in Luke 4:18-19, and filled the room in which he was sitting with the Shekina glory (the spiritual cloud of the Lord signifying God's holy presence). Not long after that he began working as a cameraman with a Christian helps ministry producing Christian television shows for churches in Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. While on one of many long road trips from Atlanta to Washington the Lord spoke to Rob and said, "Write." At another time, while he was helping to start and manage a Christian coffee house, the Lord interrupted his administrative activities and said, "Feed My sheep."

Throughout his Christian ministry as of the last thirty years the Lord has been using Rob in exhortative prophetic teaching as a “forth-teller” of God's will and word to the church. In 1982 he graduated as president of his class from New Life Bible School and was ordained into the ministry. Just before attending Bible school he went on the road with Bible teacher, Norvel Hayes, and ministered on several different occasions with Norvel Hayes and the late, great Lester Sumrall. He was later licensed and ordained through FCF International in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

After returning to Atlanta from Ireland, Rob went on a mission to Nairobi, Kenya in 1998 and saw many Kenyans saved, healed, and delivered from witchcraft. The next six years were spent ministering at The Worship Center of Lawrenceville where Rob served as an associate minister, as well as a teacher in Joshua School of Ministry. After Hurricane Katrina Rob sensed the need to be able to function as a minister outside of the local church, and he was ordained as a Community Service Senior Chaplain with The International Fellowship of Chaplains.

As of the last thirty years, Rob has, on and off, made his living as a freelance television cameraman in Atlanta, and considers and calls himself a "minister in the workplace." He also has a heart for third world foreign missions and for the persecuted church in Communist and Muslim countries.

Like Rob, Stephanie received the Lord into her heart at the age of 19, but with no consistent fellowship and discipleship, and without the baptism in the Holy Spirit, she wasn't strong enough to resist the temptations surrounding her. After working as an administrator in a senatorial campaign, she left her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and moved to Atlanta, where she began working as membership director for a prestigious club in the posh community of Buckhead. She not only handled the membership of over 5000, but also created and produced the social events at the club. It was 1980 and the disco scene was in high gear in Atlanta. Stephanie was not only a part of it - she was helping produce it, creating an event called “Disco At Dusk,” which drew thousands to the club where she worked - including some well-known politicians, media moguls and celebrities.

After leaving the club scene she worked as a free-lance artist in Atlanta until taking a job with a hotel sales and marketing company, representing several five star resorts and hotels. She eventually became Southeastern Market Research and Development Coordinator for one of the five-star hotel chains, which plunged her head first into the fast lane of the upper crust of Buckhead. She quickly spiraled downward in a whirlwind of alcohol and cocaine abuse. By the age of thirty she was a wreck waiting to happen.

A few weeks after her thirtieth birthday she finally called on the name of the Lord and repented (which she had never truly done the first time). In a dramatic encounter with the Lord Stephanie was set free from many bondages and baptized in the Holy Spirit while praying alone in her office. One year later she began to use her gifts and talents for the Lord, becoming Director of Communications for a church in Atlanta, and beginning her involvement in the ministries of deliverance and counseling. Having been victorious over drug and alcohol abuse, she is now able to effectively minister out of her own experiences, and she has a natural connection with teens and young adults who are in bondage to drugs and alcohol.

Since returning from the foreign mission field to the United States in 1995, Rob and Stephanie have served as praise and worship leaders, taught in several churches and Bible colleges, and have developed a publishing ministry. (Stephanie was licensed and ordained through The Worship Center of Lawrenceville). They consider themselves to be the embodiment of the scripture; "He that is forgiven much, loves much." They both continue to write spiritual exhortations, poems, and songs on a daily basis, and Stephanie continues work on her children's books, prophetic writings, and her screenplay on the life of Smith Wigglesworth.

Having Ian (13), with cerebral palsy and autistism, is a big challenge, but we all know that God is faithful. He will get the glory in all of our lives. Ian knows all of Rob's songs by heart and enjoys worshipping the Lord and watching GodTV. Stephanie is currently working on a book about Ian entitled, “A Song For Ian,” which testifies of his resurrection from the dead at his birth. It promises to be a powerful, faith-filled documentation of the struggles and victories of a family with a very special child. He is a great joy and blessing to us all, as well as a major strengthening challenge to our faith and patience! We continue to believe God for a total manifestation of his healing. In the meantime Stephanie feels strongly that the parents of special needs children, and the children themselves, need to experience times of refreshing before the Lord - which is born out of her own need. She hopes to be able to hold a monthly gathering for these families which will enable all to worship freely without fear of disturbing anyone, so that they can receive all that God has to give forth of His abundant love.

While preparing to enter back into the mission field, Rob’s heart is fixed on his personal relationship with the Lord. He is devoting himself to “working out what God has worked within,” and personalizing his revelation. Stephanie is allowing the Lord to build the work of Seven-Fold Ministries, Inc. - a ministry that has been growing in her spirit for many years. Acting on a direct word from God, she is now taking steps to bring it into the natural. It is being confirmed by many, as the Lord draws in those who are to be a part of establishing this work of restoration.

For both Rob and Stephanie, this is the hour to move ahead in what God has ordained.

A Family Ordained To
Bring Forth The Ministry