HERITAGE
Dr Pastor Hanfere Aligaz was born & raised, in the city of Woldiya, Ethiopia from an Orthodox Christian & Islamic family. When Aligaz became a born again Christian in 1977 he was an active member of a charismatic church in Ethiopia. Also, worked for the Ethiopian Airlines as a pilot and run a private family business. As his life changed 1980, the Holy Spirit planted the challenge in Hanfere Aligaz’s heart to plant a new church in America. Trusting and obeying the specific call from God, Aligaz fled communist Ethiopia in 1981 and arrived in the United States with his wife Yetenayet Aligaz and 4 children.
At that time he didn’t know anything about being a pastor or an evangelist,” but he sensed God wanted him to plant a church in the U.S. capital.
Hanfere Aligaz founded the International Ethiopian Evangelical Church of Washington, D.C., with 15 people one year after he and his wife and their four children defected from their communist-run homeland. The church has grown since then with several branch churches in the U.S. (Maryland, Virginia, New York, Florida, South Carolina) and internationally (Egypt, Lebanon, Djibouti, and Ethiopia). Preparation is also underway to establish a church in South Sudan. Pastor Hanfere currently oversees a total of 21 churches both in and outside of the U.S., and planning is in progress to open 5000 more churches (mainly in Ethiopia) in the near future.
VISIONARY LEADER
Pastor Hanfere Aligaz is described as an evangelist, communicator, thinker, and progressive leader. He possesses a passion towards ministering the Word of God in a clear and provocative manner that is well received by all generations and cultural groups. He serves as a mentor and friend among multitudes of pastors.
In 1989 while attending the Ethiopian Pastors Association Conference in Los Angles, California God spoke Pastor Hanfere confirming that he has the calling to go to the world and minister to the sick and needy. That would be the landmark for the inception of Global Miracle Ministries (GMM). In His Word our God has also promised healing and miracles to His people. Psalm 34:19 says, “Many evils confronted the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them”. During the last twenty years the ministry was undertaking various missions in Africa, the Middle East and USA in the form of crusades and conferences. Tangible miracles and healing were recorded and the manifestation of the anointing of God increased from year to year. Through the ministry many have seen miracles, healing from terminal diseases, impaired hearings and sight problems
The main goals of the ministry are:
(1) To gather the last harvest especially in nations of East and Southern Africa and in the Middle East.
(2) Open Bible Colleges in various countries to equip citizens of the nations with the true Word of God.
(3) Plant churches to positively impact in the livelihoods of