Lorette Dye is a missionary, Counsellor (Psychology), author and lecturer. She has published several books and had a monthly column in Finesse magazine.
She has done missionary work in China in the 90’s and from 2006 in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, the war-ridden DRC and other African countries.
She has a Master degree in psychology and she runs her own business to support herself by God’s grace, but her heart and time is committed to do God’s will and spread the word of His grace to as many people as possible.
As a young child she heard the calling of God in her life and committed her life to Him. From the age of nine she believed that God called her to work for Him and God continue to confirm it through her childhood and teenage years.
As a teenager God gave her visions of her standing on mountains in Africa and call people to come to God and give their lives to Him. After school she wanted to jump in the deep and work for God, but through prophesy God said that He is first going to prepare her for this work and in His Great Mercy, He has taken her through many valleys, many lessons and many tests.
In the early 90’s she studied theology through two separate Bible schools and in 1995 God opened the door for her to live for a limited time in China and in this time, she made contact with the underground church and smuggled Bibles into China. This experience gave her a foundation for understanding the vision God gave her for Africa.
But God was still not done with her and took her on a few detours as a way to prepare and teach her about Him, His vision for Africa and the role He was preparing her for.
In 2006 she was released and enabled to visit some Mid-Eastern African countries, including rural areas, for the first time and build up contacts and grow in the understanding of Africa and the needs that there are.
In 2009 God guided her to create AMO and start working on the vision of AMO. Shortly after, she was ordained as pastor under Pastor Trevor Walker’s ministry. In this time, she started the first Bible school in South Africa, Witbank for students from the DRC, that were working and living in South Africa. At the same time, through trial and error the Bible school material was developed, collected and/or edited, using many different sources.
She also started a ministry with the intention to work under prostitutes in downtown, Witbank. As much as this time served a purpose and taught her a lot about the ministry, she knew that her calling was not to work in South Africa, but ‘up-in-Africa’.
At this stage, AMO started to expand very fast in different African countries, and she moved all her focus to grow, sustain and build the work God was doing and enabling. Under God’s guidance and according to her calling, and the leadership of AMO, she took on the mantle of Apostle and continued to work as God led. Starting with Bible Schools, then expanding to sending missionaries (Launching this work in 2015) and in 2024, adding AMO Radio.
She knows, as God revealed to her, that God is going to do so much more than what is currently in place in AMO, and that AMO will keep on growing and move from strength to strength.
In 1993, Ruan van Wyngaardt, started his journey with God at the age of 24 by surrendering his life to Christ, accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior thus becoming a born-again believer and follower of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
at the Full Gospel Church of Christ, Wilropark, JHB, South Africa, under the leadership and Pastoral care of Past. Nicky Bezuidenhout.
One Sunday morning in church in 1994, while under the anointing of the Holy Spirit an event took place that was both a manifestation of the works of the Holy Spirit as well as a
prophetic declaration as to the path He will be walking with the Lord. It represented, a period of equipping, a period of waiting/working and then, suddenly, released, moving into
action with a powerful movement of the Holy Spirit, propelling him into the calling placed onto his life.
In April of 2009 after receiving prophesy over his life he started “The Heartbeat Foundation & Ministry”.
Quote “The Heartbeat Foundation & Ministries is a calling that God has placed in my life. It started out as a small seed that was planted in my heart that gradually grew into a reality.
I believe that all the thoughts, the ideas and all the colorful pictures that so vividly came to mind, is Gods blueprint for an organization that would reflect the Glory of His Beautiful
Name, an organization that would do more than just reach out and serve peoples most basic human needs, but one that would reach out, touch their hearts and change their lives forever by
the movement of the Holy Spirit.”
Towards the end of 2010 God showed him that he had to change the focus from charity driven outreaches to Gospel driven and it became “the Heartbeat Ministries”
In 2011 he joined CFC International Bible School and in 2014 he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Ministry. He also has a Certificate in Ministry and a Diploma in Ministry Leadership.
In this time, he was involved in street evangelism with OPP (Orange People Projects) as well as Evangelizing and Ministering to the Motor bike community in South Africa.
He was also involved in the Biker Church Movement in South Africa where he served as a pastor and he was the leader of the Men’s Ministry in the church.
He is the founder of the Christian Bikers Club – Basileia MCC (2011)- Founded on 1 Peter 2:9
with the intent to further share the Gospel to the biking community. (Ministry through association) He is currently still part of this Ministry and holds the position of National President
in this organization.
Towards the end of 2018 during a conversation/debate with God about personal encounters and people being shown heaven during near death experiences, God asked him a question
“if you were in that position, what would you want to see?” and his response was “I want to see time before creation”.
What followed can only be described as a full on “God encounter”. During this encounter with the Holy Father, where God not only granted him this request,
he was not only shown what he asked for but during this encounter he asked God, and I quote “this universe is so vast, how do You know me, because according to Your Word,
it states that You know us al by name, You know the hair on our heads, so how, do You know me?”.
In that moment God showed him the actual Heart of the Father, and explained to him “the HeartBeat of the Father.
This not only completely changed his outlook towards the Ministry but also changed the way he looked at and saw the world.
This drastic change would only take effect and reflect after the merging with AMO in 2024. But before all of this would come to pass quite a lot still had to happen.
To continue, early in 2019 in the early hours of the morning in a dream like Vision God called him, and this time God called him to Africa – I quote:
“God called me by my name, and then named me by my calling, the Lion, “the Lion of Africa”.
On the 30th May 2021 he was ordained as a Pastor under All Nations Ministry by Apostle Fatima dos Ramos with affiliations to Reinhard Bonnke Ministries and in
conjunction with Apostle G Maldonado from King Jesus Ministry in Miami Florida, USA. He is also a registered member of the CAL – Christian Alliance Network NPC in South Africa.
A quote from his letter off ordination and appointment:
“You are now qualified to preach internationally under the cover of all churches of Jesus Christ, and whose lives and spirits are of excellent rapport”
On the 11th Dec 2022 he was Consecrated as Dr Ruan van Wyngaardt through the Wesley University of Theology and the Joint Board Seminary of Charismatic & Pentecostal Council by Bishop Professor Bernard Coopasamy,
Vice President SACRC and Master Trainer - UNESCO and Archbishop Professor Menzi S Mahlangu, Master Trainer - Kingdom Minded Network.
He was also Consecrated as a member of the Joint Board Seminary of Chaplains Ministry.
He is also registered with SACRC – South African Christian Religious Council as a Religious Practitioner.
In 2023, after serving faithfully at All Nations Ministry he was released back into the Ministry he started in 2009, to continue to spread the Gospel of Christ and to fulfill the calling on his life.
In July of 2024, as foretold in a God given vision, God brought the two Ministries, ‘AMO and Heartbeat’ together, ‘Suddenly’ for them to walk in the calling placed on their lives to further expand and build God’s Kingdom in Africa and to the ends of the earth! Amen!
Since then he has partnered with Apostle Sarel and Apostle Lynette Wessels of FTM Ministries International (SA) and is under their combined mentorship.
“On Friday, 26 July 2024, while in prayer with, and confirmed by the Holy Spirit through Gods servants, Apostle Sarel and Apostle Lynette Wessels of FTM Ministries International (SA),
an apostolic mantle was released in the Spirit and ministry gifts was imparted.
I accepted this calling and I received these gifts knowing that they are equipping and training gifts, given to me to enable other members of the church, Christ's body, to function more effectively.
By God’s Grace I am prepared to move into the Office of an Apostle knowing what great responsibility this office carry and I am willing to grow further in this Office by equipping myself continuously and equipping the saints for Kingdom purpose and work.”
Currently, Pastor Ruan van Wyngaardt serves as Senior Pastor in Africa Ministries Outreach whereas the HeartBeat Ministries has become fully integrated into AMO and has been changed to “the HeartBeat of the Father” Evangelism Out reaches and Crusades.
