Founder / Director- Divine Healing Rooms- Seattle Eastside
President- New Life Christian Fellowship, Inc.
Author- “Be Healed of Cancer”, “The Fathers Face”, “Enter My Rest”, The Blood & the Water, others.

Richard McIlvaine has served in ministry for over 23 years in a variety of different areas.

These include serving as a Royal Rangers leader, Sunday school teacher, an elder, Bible school teacher, Senior Pastor of New Life Christian Fellowship for 7 years, traveling ministry locally and abroad, Bible School directors, short term missionary’s in South Korea doing a Bible School for Korean pastors, and starting the Divine Healing Rooms ministry.

Presently he and his wife Joy serve as Directors of the “Divine Healing Rooms-Seattle Eastside”; a team ministry made of folks from different churches and intercessors coming together to pray for the sick. This ministry has offered a place of hope and healing for over five years and produced the fruit of many changed lives and people healed spiritually, emotionally and in their physical bodies. They also travel overseas supporting other Divine Healing Rooms ministries that they have helped start and seek to provide ongoing training and support and do Healing Conferences and Prophetic Conferences.

Richard & Joy continue to travel locally and overseas to bring encouragement and healing to the Body of Christ. Their ministry has a prophetic aspect to it and they seek to listen to the Lord and bring fresh teaching and impartation to those they minister to. They also continue to oversee “New Life Christian Fellowship, Inc.” ; a fellowship of churches, ministers and intercessors in ministry and missions.

Richard was saved in 1977 while working for Continental Airlines in Seattle, WA. A number of Christians working there including a fellow employee, Steve Bekerus, witnessed and shared the gospel with him. But it was a message given one day on television through the “700 Club” program with Pat Robertson that resulted in him being born-again. Previous to that time he had been brought up in the Catholic church and later attended and graduated from St. Joseph’s High School, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

A year after being saved, he began attending “Faith Tabernacle” church, Kent, WA, a full-gospel church associated with the “Fellowship of Christian Assemblies”, a group similar to the “Assemblies of God” churches, but non-denominational. He later graduated from “Faith Bible Training Center” after 2 years of studying God’s Word and doing internship work in their Christian school “Faith Academy”.  It was there that Pastor Richard Martin taught him a deep love for the Word of God and to preach the Word of God expecting it to produce fruit in people’s lives. Shortly later they became one of the elders of New Life Christian Fellowship, Issaquah,WA and shortly later appointed Senior Pastors of New Life Christian Fellowship and pastored there for seven years before going into traveling ministry.

Richard & Joy have been married for 23 years and have three wonderful children, Anna, John and David. Anna presently attends Washington State University studying broadcast communications, John is in High School and David in Middle school. They reside in the beautiful Seattle- Eastside area of the Pacific Northwest and enjoy the beauty and activities available to the area.

They continue to seek after God and His plan for their lives and trust Him to direct their paths in the future as they seek to love and serve Him and His Body.
Richard & Joy McIlvaine - P.O. Box 315 - Issaquah, WA USA  98027
 

E-mail: richardmcilvaine (at) divinehealingrooms.com
Web site: www.divinehealingrooms.com