Our History

Our History

While deployed to Iraq in 2004 Apostle Craig clearly heard the Lord say that He was going to promote him. Armed with this revelation he walked boldly in that which he’d heard and even had the rank of Master Sergeant/E-8 sewn on his uniform in preparation of the board results. After preaching the gospel that morning and being prepared to share at another ministry that evening, he received word that he was in fact passed over for promotion. Heartbroken, distraught and now questioning all the other times he’d assumed he heard God; out of hurt he attempted to back out of ministering on that evening but without success. Arriving at the Chapel early, he found himself alone and simply fell before God; as he came out of his place of devotion, the chapel was already filled with parishioners. He recalls being introduced and simultaneously while ministering he was having a conversation with God about the promotion and the hurt he was feeling.

God told him that what he was feeling and yet performing was, in fact, the work of ministry and even through the trauma, pain or excitement of life, his calling was to preach the good news. God also told him that he’d heard Him correctly in the past and even with promotion but the promotion was to Pastor and he’d mistaken his desire for the Lord’s. However, the Lord went on to say because that’s your desire I’m going to grant that too and the Army held an extremely unusual second Master Sergeant /E-8 board within the same year, where his name appeared.

Apostle Craig acknowledged the call but thought it had to be an extensive preparation phase before he walked in it! He thought it no big deal as this thing had been prophesied over his life on several occasions and he’d fall into it when it’s time. He continued serving all the more wisely and in 2006 hearing the voice of God saying that it was time to walk out on the faith that he’d been preaching about by retiring from the military after 20 years. Of course, he questioned God but obeyed! In October of 2007 he relocated from Kaiserslautern Germany to Elizabethtown Kentucky (a place he’d never lived or been stationed) and began the transition into civilian life. Immediately, he was reminded of the call on his life and started to prepare physically for the task but was terrified on the inside allowing fear and Insignificance to prevent him from fully obeying the voice of God. While visiting other ministries in the area Apostle Craig found a place that he assumed his family could grow with and this culminated in him abandoning his assignment.

For approximately 2 ½ years he gave himself to the ministry, served tirelessly and submitted to those above him. During the last six to eight months of servitude, he found himself in an unfamiliar place spiritually: he prayed about it, talked with his Pastors and even their Pastors about the place he found himself. Unfortunately, no-one had an answer and he didn’t stop long enough to hear what God was saying. As time and what felt like torment went on he finally got to a place where he could hear God and his answer came in a name and finally a dream. God called him Jonah and showed him how he traveled to Tarshish when his assignment was Nineveh and therefore his torment and fragrance was from being in the belly of a fish.

He quickly contacted his Pastor and notified him of his need to depart the ministry and they agreed that he would stay on until after a certain event; he had no idea where he was going or what he would do, he just knew he had to leave and at a minimum, he knew how to evangelize. God continued to visit and pour into him regularly and eventually he shared what had transpired and the vision with his family. Unfortunately, this didn’t go over or sit well and he was told they were going to stay where they were and he could do whatever. Of course, he took that news really hard and later God showed him a dream of him living in his car with all his belongings around him and he saw himself eating out of a can. At that moment, he told God…if it cost me everything, including my family, I’m going to do what you tell me to do! He immediately woke his family up, in the early morning mind you to tell them exactly what he told God and he meant it.

As the departure date swiftly approached and passed, his intent to merely Evangelize Hardin County changed as God said otherwise and continued to reveal the plan as he was given the name “Discipling Ministries”, the foundational scriptures of John 8:31-32 and even a motto “Not concerned about a building, but THE BUILDING OF A PEOPLE”. Discipling Ministries Inc. was birthed and held its first service in their home with five people on 14 March followed by a business meeting on 16 March 2010. The ministry remained in the home until February of 2011 where they moved to their current place of corporate Worship at 1710 N. Dixie Hwy, Radcliff KY. His family didn’t take long at all to accept and support the ministry. He understood that this ministry was different in the fact that one’s social status didn’t matter and if you came “you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” and because of that fact, it won’t necessarily be a popular ministry in its infancy but it will never lack for anything and LOVE will always abide. Its mission is plainly to “BUILD the People”…!