Hi Everybody! I’m Dr Steve Parson
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Dr Steve Parson is the Founder and Pastor of Faith Alive International Ministries (FAIM)/aka Richmond Christian Center ( RCC ), which is located in Richmond, Va
Dr Parson was born in Buffalo, NY in 1949 and was raised in the Bapist Church. As a young adult, Pastor Parson received Jesus as his Lord and Savior while watching the PTL Club on television. In 1977, while attending a Full Gospel Businessmen´s Convention, he received the Pentecostal experience known as the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.
In 1978, he came into contact with the Books and cassette teachings by Kenneth Hagin of Tulsa, OK and Dr Fred Price of Los Angeles, Ca. He says, ” The Lord taught and ministered to me more through these two men than any theological school could possibly have done. He later was given an Honorary Graduate Degree from Hagin´s Rhema Bible Training School and was on the Founding Board of Dr Price´s Fellowship Of Inner Cities Word of Faith Ministries.
On December 4, 1983, Pastor Parson gathered his family together in their living room for the first service of the Richhmond Christian Center. The Church since has received international and national recognition for its outreach ministries and television ministry (BET) over the years. In 1985 Pastor Parson´s ministry and church received further recognition after a incident where a woman ped dead in the church and was miraclously brought back to life through prayer. When asked what he would attribute to the success of his ministry, he always responds, ” The Word of Faith” Romans 10:8.
In 1998, Dr Parson was led to begin a work in the country of Brazil. He first ministered in Santos, Rio de Janeiro and then Recife. After many months and much traveling to Brazil, he then established a church in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and called it Faith Alive International Ministries of Brazil (FAIMB). He has since learned to speak portuguese and has sponsored missionary trips to the country providing medical ministry to the Brazilians in their more poverty stricken areas. A Ministry to children was also established along with a Missionary Training Center to the Nations (MTCN) headquartered in Salvador for the purpose of training workers to go to other nations with the Gospel.
In 2004, the Richmond Christian Center became a headquarters church, which has expanded to Washington, D.C. (FAIM-DC) in addition to Brazil (FAIMB) and took on the name Faith Alive International Ministries. Today over 20 Churches and Ministers have been birthed, licensed, ordained and established out of the ministry of Dr. Steve Parson and the Richmond Christian Center. His purpose, intent and goal is to fulfill the call of God on his life, minister, teach and then demonstrate the Word of Faith so that people´s faith would not be in the wisdom of man but in the Power of a Resurrected Lord. Pastor Parson´s message is one of simplicity but Power. His reputation as a teacher is ” He ministers in a way that even a child can understand”. His emphasis has always been first and foremost eternal life and salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ, ” What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but looses his soul. Secondly physical healing and divine health, his healing ministry is one where people see gifts of healing and words of knowledge in demostration that astound the natural mind. Thirdly, Dr. Parson´s revelation in the Word of God on the third part of the Abrahamic Covenant which is Wealth, opens up the eyes of our understanding on Money and Gain like the Church has never heard before in modern times. His revelation on what the Bible says concerning Business, ownership, buying and selling, exchange, trade, doing Business, the Business of Generating Our own Income and not being Dependent on people or anybodies giving is revelatory. He says the Lord is Our Provider and He Provides for us by us providing for ourselves. Financial Independence (Wealth) through doing Business is what he sees in the Word of God and is boldly declaring and demostrating today through his businesses. His revelation in the scriptures on buying and selling, multiplication, networking, ownership, and provision is a message to be received and acted upon (faith without works is dead) to bring wealth to the body of Christ and ultimately the World to the Glory of God Our Father.