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Rolland and Heidi Baker

ROLLAND AND HEIDI BAKER Rolland and Heidi Baker began Iris Ministries, Inc., an interdenominational mission, in 1980 and have been missionaries for the past twenty-five years. They were both ordained as ministers in 1985 after completing their BA and MA degrees at Southern California College in Biblical Studies and Church Leadership. Rolland is a third-generation missionary born and raised in China and Taiwan. Photographs compliments of www.irismin.org
He was greatly influenced by his grandfather, H.A. Baker, who wrote "Visions Beyond the Veil," an account of the extended visions of heaven and hell that children received in his remote orphanage in southwest China two generations ago. Click to enlarge photo compliments of Iris Ministries, Inc., an interdenominational mission
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Photographs compliments of www.irismin.org

Heidi was powerfully called to the mission field when she was sixteen and living on an Indian reservation as an American Field Service student. She was led to the Lord by a Navajo preacher.

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Several months later she was taken up in a vision for several hours and heard the Lord speak to her and tell her to be a minister and a missionary to Africa, Asia and England.

Seen here in Barbados with Marcia Weeks.

Heidi Baker with Marcia Weeks from Praise Academy in Barbados
Heidi Baker with Dave and Marcia Weeks from Praise Academy in Barbados

Heidi was powerfully called to the mission field when she was sixteen and living on an Indian reservation as an American Field Service student. She was led to the Lord by a Navajo preacher.

Seen here in Barbados 2007 (Click on photos to enlarge)

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Heidi Baker with Marcia Weeks from Praise Academy in Barbados Heidi Baker in Barbados 2007 Heidi Baker with Marcia Weeks from Praise Academy in Barbados

Several months later she was taken up in a vision for several hours and heard the Lord speak to her and tell her to be a minister and a missionary to Africa, Asia and England.

When she returned home to Laguna Beach, California, she began ministering at every opportunity and leading short-term mission teams.

Praying for the Body of Christ in Barbados at Praise Academy

Heidi Baker praying  with Marcia Weeks from Praise Academy in Barbados

Rolland praying with Marcia

Rolland and Heidi met at a small charismatic church in Southern California and married six months later after realizing they were united in their calling and desire to see revival among the poor and forgotten of the world.

Rolland and Heidi spent twelve years in Asia. The first six years they led Christian dance-drama crusades in Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

They made use of their backgrounds in creative media and the performing arts, and saw thousands come to Jesus.

The bond was established with Praise Academy, the Barbados group who present the Gospel of Christ through Dance.

"Changing Mindsets through Movement"

"I love the Body of Christ"

After meeting Jackie Pullinger-To and working with her ministry to drug addicts in Hong Kong, however, they had a strong feeling that the Lord wanted to change the direction of their ministry. Their hearts were increasingly broken for the poor and unwanted. They wondered about their crusade converts and wanted to concentrate more on the specific daily needs of those to whom they ministered. This was a time of change. They began to plant works among the poor--first in the slums of central Jakarta, Indonesia, and then among forgotten streetsleepers and elderly in the most crowded urban area in the world, central Kowloon in Hong Kong. God was giving them his heart for the poor and abandoned.
In 1992 they left to do their PhDs in systematic theology at King's College, University of London. At the same time they planted a church among the homeless, drug addicts and alcoholics who lived on the streets in central London.
In 1995, after twenty years of praying and waiting, they arrived in Mozambique, the poorest country in the world. < Read more >

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Email heidi@irismin.org

Iris Ministries, Inc.
933 College View Drive
Redding, CA 96003

rolland@irismin.org

 
 
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