The ministry started as a prayer group that was called Kingdom Builders. It was started on July 7th, 2015, when God was taking me through my wilderness that got me to become the leader that he wanted me to become. At the time I obeyed him and did it. The group increased to over five hundred members at that time all over the world. So, I would pray, teach, prophesy, encourage, and deliver many of the members that were a part of the group. I was not ordained as a minister yet, but in 2016 I met my husband Ricardo Lawrence, we started dating and on May 6th, 2017 we got married. One night I got a vision that I must start a Facebook Go live.
I was scared about doing Facebook Go live, I went to my husband Mr. Lawrence, and told him about it. He motivated me to start it, at that time I was a part of the worship team, evangelist team, and a prayer warrior. My bishop at the time said that he started a school where he equips leaders and so I started the course. It lasted for a year where I graduated with my ministerial biblical studies on the 22nd of October and on the 29th of October 2017 I was ordained as an evangelist. On February 7th, 2017 while doing the go live on Facebook, the Lord said to me that I have less than six months in my church, at first I said no lord I won’t leave, but words of confirmation were coming from all over, visions and dreams of what the lord would want me to do so I went to my bishop and told him but he never wanted me to go. I was threatened that if I go, he would take my license and so I did in august 2018 and started an outreach that was called the kingdom Radical movements of the supernatural, where the mission became a movement. In December 31st, 2018 I was ordained into the office of a prophetess and my husband was ordained as an evangelist. We started to move into what the Lord wanted us to do. In 2019 the Lord gave me a vision and showed me the name for the church that is Refuge Kingdom Deliverance Ministry and he said I must not leave off deliverance when I go to register the church because it is a deliverance ministry.
Then God gave me the logo and Mark 16 verse 17-18 and these signs will follow the believer. They shall lay hands on the sick and heal, Jerimiah 1 verse 5 and 17-1. He said don’t be afraid of the faces, he will start the ministry with one hundred chairs, place an Ark Of the Covenant on the pulpit, and that I must stop outreach for a couple of months until I am finished with the setup of the church. Throughout the journey of putting the ministry in order, we received a lot of warfare, but my husband and I press to the higher mark with the vision that the Lord gave us. We poured in all the work and dedication for this vision to give birth. Prophetess Shavon is the third one for mother and father. My mother Yvette Angela Ledford died ten years ago in this same month and so it was not easy to give birth to this Ministry but my husband evangelist Ricardo Lawrence push me into my calling and motivated me to do what the Lord had called me to do.
Evangelist Ricardo Lawrence is a radical man of God, he believed that gunman must get saved and life must be transformed. He is the first child for his parents, the first child to get married and the first child to get saved. On the 27th of September 2019 the Refuge Kingdom Deliverance was about to give birth, (it’s going to launch) the bible says we walk by faith and not by sight so whatever the lord tells you to do, just run with it.