Lorette Dye founded the Helios Training Centre in 2003 and the Art Healing Academy in 2009. She has a Master’s degree in psychology specializing in Traumatized and Sexually abused victims (men, woman & children). She also uses her expertise and experience to give specialized training to counsellors in South Africa as part of the charity work that AMO does locally under disadvantage communities.
Africa was seen as the dark and lost continent that were used by Europeans and other countries to use and enrich themselves.
God changed this through leaders like Evangelist Reinhardt Bonnke that held crusades and brought many people to Christ.
This was an amazing work and movement from God. However, the consequences were that people got saved but without following through with discipleship.
They were thus left to their own devises to figure out what it means to be a Christian.
This self-exploration led to mixing aspects of traditional beliefs including witchcraft with principles of Christianity.
This facilitated the need for training in the Gospel to equip new converts in ‘the Way’. (Acts 24;14) Many people responded to the call of God despite a severe lack of Ministerial and Theological knowledge and became Pastors to fill this gap.
We are currently in an era where governments require the pastors to have good training and are closing churches where pastors are deemed unqualified to the detriment of the Church as many God-filled people are stopped from preaching and serving God in their calling.
AMO was founded to fill this gap. It is taking theological training to some of the remotest areas of rural Afiica in the form of structured, formal Bible schools, to reach and to equip people, to raise up leaders and to support local churches.
Currently we have Bible schools in more than 10 countries and continue to expand and grow. These countries include, but are not limited to, South Africa, the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierre Leone, Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar, Togo, South-Sudan and Zambia.
We offer a four-year theological training course equivalent to a certificate, diploma and degree level as well as training in counselling.
We offer these study materials at no cost to our planted Bible Schools. Our curriculum is currently offered in English, French, Swahili and Kirundi with future plans to translate into additional languages as the need arises pending expansion into other countries.
An AMO qualification is accepted and recognised by most of the above countries’ Governments according to their rules and regulations for Ministries, Churches, Ministers and Pastors. Therefore, they do not suffer any persecution against their churches and leaders.
Several International Universities accept our students into their Masters and Doctorate programs..
Our main goal is to equip the Church, offering sustainable and consistent training, enabling them and protecting them from being closed down to become permanent, reliable, influential places of Worship.
These Bible Schools then also become a recruitment source from where God calls up missionaries to go to the unreached mission field.
AMO reach, teach and send these missionaries into the field.
At this point in time – July 2024 - God has called more than fifty missionary families.
They are currently in the process of completing their training and once done they will be sent into the mission field.
These trainee missionary families are additional to the existing, fully committed, dedicated families that have already been sent and currently busy working full-time in the missionary field.
The fruits of their labour show through the number of people that come to God and are being baptized in the Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, becoming true followers of ‘the Way’.
(Previously known as the HeartBeat Ministries)
The Heartbeat Ministries was founded in April 2009 by Pastor Ruan van Wyngaardt as a result of a God given Vision.
Heartbeat of the Father’s core focus is Evangelism Outreaches and Christian Crusades.
Reach Out, Touch a Heart, Save a Soul!
We can’t sit back and watch as people are lost, we have to take up the armor and reach people that do not know God. Therefore, evangelism outreaches and crusades are as important as equipping the church with knowledge. New converts are brought into the church, are equipped with knowledge and send to save souls for Christ
AMO started an online radio station – amoradio.org as a way to support and to train the Bible school teachers, the students, the missionaries as well as to evangelize too and uplift new disciples.
Currently the programs and teachings are presented in English, French, Swahili and Kirundi.
Churches, businesses and organizations can support AMO through paid advertisements; either as a website advertisement with links to your own websites or Facebook pages and/or a pre-recorded radio advertisement.
This ministry belongs to God and He is the King and leader of everything we do. Therefore, we know that we can’t do it without Him and we need His guidance, blessing and protection and because of this we understand the importance and power of prayer. That is why we started the 9th hour prayer ministry. We call up prayer warriors and intercessors to pray for AMO and formally pray together (also utilizing AMO Radio) 9am and 9pm every day.
AMO trains counsellors in South Africa in psychology focussed practical therapy www.helios.co.za and Arts counselling training www.arthealingacademy.co.za
(With the focus to be able to work over cultural and race barriers).
Up-to-date AMO has trained just over a 1000 students and counsellors locally in South Africa as well as other countries.
Our students work in schools, orphanages and in the private sector. They deal with vulnerable children including orphans, street children, abused men, woman and children as well as traumatized people (male & female).
They also do community work under disadvantage socio-economic communities, as well as research to improve services and care of mental health in these communities, under AMO’s leadership and guidance.
Counselling training are also done through all the AMO Bible schools in different African countries.
