RBI Graduates in Ministry
Agustin Banuet, RBI Graduate, 2010
Agustin is a minister and staff member of Palabra de Vida, located in Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, under Senior Pastor Bobby Crow. Since graduating in May of 2010, Agustin has been involved in itinerant preaching, English-Spanish translation of TV programs and crusades, leading and training in soul winning, teaching in their Bible school, camera and production work, and practical ministry within the church.
Adam Smith is the founder of Truth and Power Ministries, a ministry located in Brazil that organizes mass Gospel crusades. Adam and his wife Patricia are both RBI graduates. Here's their testimony:
"Once I received Christ, I knew immediately that I had to preach. However, I did not know anything about the Bible so I began to search for a Bible school. A month after I was saved, I saw some videos of Pastor Rodney. I thought, "Wow, I've never seen that before (the manifestation of God's Power). I want to do that!" I went to the Summer Campmeeting 2001. I knew immediately that I was to go to the River Bible Institute. I found a house and began school in August, 4 months after I got saved. There are plenty of other Bible schools out there, even ones with similar doctrine, but having now graduated from RBI, I see the difference: At RBI you will receive a foundation in the Word and an impartation of the anointing on Pastors Rodney and Adonica. You WILL receive an anointing to win souls.
My wife Patricia came to school from Brazil 2 weeks before the events of September 11th. She had grown up in a pastor's home and had always served God. Patricia always remembers that when I introduced myself to her and told her my story and that I was a new convert, she wanted to run away from me! But the Lord spoke to her about me and my future. We got married during our second year of school and have been married for almost 8 years now with 2 beautiful children, Eva and Benjamin.
Two months after graduation, Patricia and I began organizing our first mass crusade. Since then, we have preached to over 500,000 people and seen close to 200,000 salvations through our crusades. God has recently led us to begin a church in Natal, Brazil and a Bible school is soon to follow. When you look at a Bible school, ask this question: Will I be more on fire when I leave than when I came? Patricia and I certainly were, and we are still on fire today!"
- Adam and Patricia Smith
Jason and Hannah Gillick completed three years at the River Bible institute and graduated in 2001. The couple now has four sons living for the Lord and they pastor New Breed Church in Bremerton, Washington. They write:
"When we came to RBI, we committed our hearts and lives fully to the Lord. We came teachable and ready to learn, serve, and lay down our lives for the call of God. The phrase 'Days of preparation are never wasted days' taught us to work hard and stay steadfast. Attending RBI challenged us to push through, stay the course and never, ever give up. The times of worship and saturation in the Word and Spirit brought us into a deep relationship with the Lord. Watching Drs. Rodney & Adonica and other instructors demonstrate the power of God taught us to wait on the anointing and stay hungry for God to move. The soul-winning training imprinted on our hearts the importance of winning souls in our everyday lives.
Since starting New Breed Church, we have seen many saved through outreaches, give-aways, street evangelism, open-air crusades, and relationship evangelism. We allow the Holy Spirit to have His way and are contending for a mighty move of God in the Great Northwest! We continually rely on the teaching and impartation that we received at the River Bible Institute. We are forever grateful for what we learned, saw, caught, and experienced during that time."
- Pastors Jason and Hannah Gillick
Linda Arnold graduated from the River Bible institute in 2001 after 3 years of studies. She and her husband currently pastor two churches in Germany where God send them as missionaries in 2005. Pastor Linda writes:
One Sunday morning, when Pastor Rodney first announced the RBI´s opening, I knew I had to be there. But at the time we were caring for 4 foster children. My husband didn´t like the idea of being Mr. Mom in the evenings after working a full day so could I attend Bible school. Many of my friends were privileged to go. Some months later, in February of 1997, after 2 of the children left,
I attended an open house week at the RBI. During one of the evening sessions I heard the Lord say, `I am putting out revelation here like no where else, get in on it now!´ The next day I told my husband what the Lord said. If the Lord showed me, He would show Bob, too. Within a week he agreed that I could enroll. Amazingly, I started attending classes during the last quarter of the charter class. Without a doubt, I would not be where I am today with my husband pastoring two churches in a foreign country had we not obeyed the Lord to attend the RBI. In hindsight, it was imperative to prepare for the future God has destined us for. I tell everyone that nothing in the way of training or education compares to the experience and knowledge of God I gained at the RBI.
Today Bob and I are missionaries to Germany. We moved here September 23, 2005 with our 2 children. Prior to that we traveled back and forth for 12 years. Now we the pastors of two churches in two different cities an hour apart. One is in Kassel and one is in Paderborn, Germany. We founded the one in Paderborn. As for the one in Kassel, we actually moved into an apartment above the church not aware they were without a pastor for two years. We volunteered our time to preach while the Paderborn church was being established. Five months later, we were asked to be the pastors in Kassel also. The Lord gave us a double blessing. The Kassel Church was quite traditional, but has a rich history of being birthed out of a revival in 1906. Since then it has become an international church with people from 12 nations attending. The people have opened up to the move of the Holy Spirit. We are also heavily involved in evangelism. We believe we are here at God´s appointed time for the harvest and revival in Germany. We are very grateful to Pastor´s Rodney and Adonica and the RBI.
- Pastor Linda Arnold