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PASTOR RONALD WALKER
At one point, Ronald’s mother and Boyfriend had some problems that were serious enough that they caused his mother to move herself and her children from Fort Worth, TX to Del Rio, TX for two years. After they returned to Fort Worth, Ronald became a student at Trimble Tech High School. He would walk to school and on the way there was a crossroads, where one road led to the school and the other led to a friend’s house. Ronald began to take the road to the friend’s house, and began living a life that included fornication, selling and doing drugs.
In 1997, Ronald left his home to go to a nightclub, and on the way he went to a liquor store to get a bottle of vodka. He was looking forward to a night out, away from his pregnant girlfriend. At the club, he approached a former friend whose sister he was trying to develop a relationship with, and asked for the sister’s phone number. When the former friend refused to give him the number, Ronald became very angry. He and the other man ended up getting into an altercation, in which the man threatened Ronald, saying, “If you put your hands on me, I’m going to do something”, insinuating that he had a gun. Unafraid, Ronald went to his grandmother’s house, where he kept a pistol. He returned to the nightclub parking lot and sturck the man, who in retaliation pulled out his gun and began shooting. Ronald pulled out his own gun and opened fire. Some innocent people were shot in the gunfight, as was Ronald after he made it back to his vehicle. He was pulled from the vehicle, and was left in the parking lot for a time, where he lay bleeding. A nurse who happened to be in the club that night came out and performed CPR on him. Another bystander called 911. Ronald was taken to John Peter Smith hospital in downtown Fort Worth.
Ronald lay in the hospital for about a month, 2 weeks of which he was in a coma. He died 3 times during that month, and all 3 times God saw fit to spare his life. While in the coma he had prophetic dreams, many of which came to pass many years later. Ronald spent that time praying and asking God for forgiveness and healing, and promised God that if he was healed he would live a life that was pleasing to Him. One night Ronald had a dream that he was being chased, and when he woke he was told that he had died in his sleep, but that the doctors were able to revive him. He was advised by the doctors to get a pacemaker, and after he agreed, he received the pacemaker and walked out of the hospital, crying and intending to make good on his promises to God.
However, it was not long before Ronald returned to the life he had lived previously. According to God’s plans, Ronald was turned in to the police- he was wanted from shooting the man with whom he had the altercation on the night of the gunfight- and he returned to prison to serve a second term. This time while incarcerated, Ronald truly rededicated his life to the Lord, and continually fed his spirit the Word of God and was re-baptized. One afternoon, while Ronald was reading from the book of Acts about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, another believing inmate approached him and inquired what he was studying. When Ronald told him, the fellow believer told him, “You can receive the Holy Spirit right now, brother, if you have the faith.” In response, Ronald advised the man, “I have the faith.” There, in a dormitory-like environment, Ronald and the other believer kneeled down bedside and began to pray for Ronald to receive the Holy Spirit. After a few minutes, Ronald felt something that he had never felt before. He felt rivers of life flowing in his belly, and he felt the Holy Spirit of the true and living God overshadow him, and he began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave him utterance. Afterwards, he sat on his bed, completely in awe of God’s grace, power and faithfulness.
In August of 2000, Ronald was released from prison. An aunt had told him about New Beginnings International Church. He attended and served at New Beginnings for the 14 years faithfully, and was a member of the pastoral staff for 5 years. God is faithful, and he has continuously had his hand on this man of God, Pastor Ronald W. Walker.
Pastor Ronald & Synithia Walker
Pastor Ronald Walker was raised in Baptist Church all his life. Once, during a service he attended as a teenager, a gentleman in the church fell out in the Spirit and hit his head on a marble floor. The sound was so loud, it was heard all throughout the building. The minister stated to the congregation, “He is in the hands of God now.” After 30 or 40 minutes, the gentleman stood up and did not have so much as a knot on his head from the fall. That was a starting point for Ronald’s relationship with the Lord- he saw firsthand God’s power at work.