Resurrected Life History

Resurrected Life Christian Fellowship Ministry, Incorporated is a non-denominational church, with Baptist roots. The Founder and Senior Pastor is Apostle Val Tigner.

 

On October 12, 1997, what began as a Bible Study was erupting into a church ministry. Apostle Val Tigner, known then to her congregation as ‘Evangelist Val,’ held the first church service in her apartment. The church, formerly named Christians in Motion for Christ, consisted of approximately twenty-five members.

 

In December of 2000 the Lord instructed Apostle Val to change the church name to Resurrected Life Christian Fellowship Ministry, Incorporated. According to Apostle Val, “Although most ministers tend to preach about Jesus’ birth during the Christmas season, I found myself preaching the accounts of His resurrection. It was during this time that God revealed the church’s name.” Her motto, “I’m living a Resurrected Life,” which means it’s a life of resurrection that arises from death of self and/or deliverance from demonic spirits.

 

Resurrected Life is not an offspring of another non-denominational church, but Apostle Val’s spiritual journey began at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia under the leadership of Pastor Timothy Fleming Sr. She joined this congregation in June of 1993 where she served as an Evangelist and choir member.

 

In 1997, Apostle Val split from Mount Carmel, after receiving Pastor Fleming’s approval, to start a Women’s Bible Study, which was held at a Rehabilitation Center in the Atlanta area. This Bible Study was neither a womanist or feminist movement, but catered to women with similar backgrounds as the Apostle before Christ and Mount Carmel. She lived “life on the streets of Atlanta with a tormenting addiction to crack cocaine, relentless rapes, and no permanent place to rest her head.” She sought to end her life, but encountered the saving grace of God. God delivered her from this addiction and life on the streets.

 

In the beginning stages of the church’s development, the Apostle was also instructed, by God, to launch a healing crusade throughout the Southeast and parts of West Virginia. During these crusades “countless souls were saved, converted and delivered from all manners of evil.” This is putting it mildly since she is a radical rebel for Christ who specializes in the prophetic and deliverance.

 

Since Resurrected Life is a prophetic and deliverance ministry, it’s not unusual to witness the casting out of evil spirits. Apostle Val believes an individual can be tormented and afflicted physically, psychologically, and emotionally by evil and demonic spirits. The ‘acts of deliverance’ play a major role in Resurrected Life’s revolving door syndrome, since these practices and beliefs aren’t readily accepted by all Christians. Nonetheless, the Apostle holds fast to the fact that, “Our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” This is the unique character and identity of the congregation and church.