Temple Restoration

Darlene Ephraim’s testimony of how God brought her from the PIT to the PALACE, has helped hundred’s of women understand that God can use any vessel He chooses. When asked the one word that describes her best, many would say “REAL” because she does not cut corners to tell the truth of her life and of the gospel. Darlene shares that “God raised me up from the pit, so I could run as His herald and tell the world that they are to fulfill their God-ordained purposes before the return of Christ.” She has dedicated her life to helping others, especially women; understand that they can do all things through Christ that strengthens them.

At the beginning of all of her presentations, she greets her audience with “Hello Baby Girls” and closes in prayer with “From God’s Baby Girl” because she says: “God wraps me up in His arms and loves on me because I am His precious little girl.”

Her story of triumph begins as that of Joseph in the Bible. She was thrown into a pit of teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, battered-girlfriend, drug abuse, promiscuity, abandonment, depression, low-self esteem and all the other stuff that comes with these debilitating circumstances. But she wants the world to know that her story did not end in the pit. The pit actually ushered her in to the PALACE. Her Palace is her relationship with Christ and with other Kingdom builders.

As a young girl, her parents always made sure she and her siblings were in church but Darlene found out that she did not have a personal relationship with God until she hit rock bottom. While at a drug treatment facility, a counselor shared the good news of the gospel with her and Darlene accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Savior. She has been sober and prosperous now for 15 years.

Her first year of sobriety entailed crying constantly, not understanding that God was healing and purging her from unbearable hurts and pains. She began to pray for her husband Ray, to come to Jesus also. Within the first year of begging God to yoke them equally, two messed up and wandering souls were under the teaching of a mighty preacher, Pastor A.W. Anthony Mays, of Mount Sinai Baptist Church, Austin, Texas. This man of God breathed into their hearts the true Word of God and loved them unconditionally. Ray was later ordained as a deacon in the church and seven years later he professed his calling as a preacher of the gospel. Darlene served as the Coordinator for the P.A.T.H. (People Available to Help) ministry, for those struggling with alcohol and drug addictions. Additionally, Darlene is a gifted teacher and Evangelist. She has served as Coordinator for a powerful ministry that ministered to the girls in the church; she became an influential church schoolteacher, as well as a leader in the Women’s Ministry. Not realizing that all along God was preparing her to witness to the hurting souls of this world.

She and her husband Minister Ray will celebrate 30 years of marriage in August 2006. They have three awesome children, DeShonda, Marcus and daughter-in-law, Keisha, as well as four adorable grandsons. Darlene’s philosophy is to: