Pastor Avril E. Wiggins was led by God in 2003 to start House of Rapha International Ministries Inc.Which would be a ministry that provided healing of the whole man. Pastor Wiggins has been in the ministry for over two decades. She was saved and filled with the Holy Spirit  at the age of 11 and has been living for God the majority of her life.Knowing that there was a Prophetic call upon her life, God used her even in her youth, to lay hands on people and cancer was healed, and countless numbers of young people gave there life to the Lord. God used her to Prophesize  many into there Destiny. She has had the privilege of being under some of the Greatest men and women of God of  this age. Like the late Bishop Ozuro Thurston Jones Jr., Mother Willie Mae Rivers just  to name a few, and is the sum total of all of the deposits she received while under there tutelage. In  October 2002, she was ordained as an Elder in the Lord's Church. On June 10th, 2006 Pastor Wiggins earned  her PhD. in Christian Education, Pastoral Studies ,and Biblical Studies from Agape Bible College and University in Birmingham, Alabama. In October 2006 Pastor Wiggins had hands laid on her and was re ordained by her spiritual father and Mother, Bishop I.V. and Lady Bridget Hilliard. Pastor Wiggins Released her First Book called "The Battered Preacher's Wife" which is her autobiography of survival, forgiveness, and triumph. Pastor Wiggins is a Psalmist and is set to release her first CD in the Fall of 2010. She is happily married to Eld. Joseph Wiggins Jr. and they are the proud parents of Zipporah, Shekinah, Zithri, Josiah, and Micah and she is the spiritual mother and mentor to many. She also has churches under her ministry covering in Sierra Leone West Africa.