Meet Our Leaders!

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The vision for the ministry of Strong Deliverance by Faith was given to Willie Howard Jr. at the age of 14 when the Lord spoke the name into his spirit. However, it wasn't until the age of 18 when he accepted and began to walk in the preaching and prophetic ministry.  One evening after coming home from a family event, Willie Howard Jr. was praying under an Oak Tree next to his home in Prichard, Alabama and the anointing from the prayer caused people to be drawn and experience the presence of God like they had never experienced before. This event caused a prayer band to be birthed, where he went from house to house praying &  flowing in the spirit of the Living God and many souls were converted, healed & delivered. 

As time went on, people began to join the prayer band as they would a ministry, which was soon to come. In 2002, recognizing the call to the pastoral, Bishop James Austin (Songs of Deliverance) consecrated Prophet Howard to the office of Pastor and the vision God gave him at the age of 14 had now been manifested at age of 22. As Pastor Howard allowed the Holy Ghost to have is way in the ministry, God allowed him access to the apostolic anointing in which more souls were set free demonic possession and oppression and filled with the Holy Ghost. The church became known as "the church on 45" in relation to its location (Highway 45 in Prichard, AL). During services, people would walk in from the streets and experience the transforming power of God and leave with a changed countenance. The Lord even allowed him to be used to raise the dead!

During this advancement in the anointing, God came to Pastor Howard in a dream and called him into the office of an apostle, in which he was ultimately consecrated into in 2004, by Apostle Daryl Patterson (Triumph the Church and Kingdon of God in Christ Inc.). Apostle Howard, then, continued to do the work of the Lord and helped birth the five-fold ministry vessels that the Lord appointed.

In 2010, the Lord shifted the ministry to an unfamiliar place: having services inside his home in Mobile, Alabama. Though, it was unpopular, Apostle Howard obeyed the Lord and God continued to bless and the same power that had been experienced by the souls before continued on and the Lord allowed more people to be drawn to the ministry to be converted, healed, & set free for 4 years until the Lord allowed the ministry to move services to the building of His choice. After 2 months, the Lord allowed Strong Deliverance by Faith Apostolic Church to move into a larger building, after the growth was being noticed by Bishop Arthur Holmes, Sr (Senior Pastor of Kingdom of Faith and Overseer of Apostolic Latter Day Christian Ministries), Apostle Howard's God-given spiritual father.