Pastor Geoff's Story

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Married to Alison Winter. Has 3 grown up Children, 5 grandchildren. Oldest daughter and son in law are senior Pastors of Hope Chapel Hamilton East.

Saved in the spring of 1989. Served in Tokoroa AOG Church till 1999. God called Geoff to leave his farms and walk by faith. Moved to Te Aroha. Was really tested about God’s call on His life. God called Geoff to plant a church. Experienced a revival amongst the youth and the Māori community with many miraculous healings and deliverances.

Went to Canada in 2008 for 7 months to learn about Crusade evangelism as part of the School of the Supernatural in Abbottsford. Came back to Hamilton where God provided a property and sent Geoff on the road, evangelizing as an independent contractor doing Sky TV work. Powerful time of miracles and harvest. 

Began a new Church plant in Melville Intermediate on a Sunday Night in the end of 2015 and then moved to Celebrating Age Centre in 2017. The Church continued to grow. Took over 191 Ellis Street in May of 2019. There was supernatural provision. Together with a team we fitted out the building. God supernaturally provided everything we have.  Geoff was president of Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship and together with a God given amazing team, Barry Billing, Sue, and Rowan Borrell, began doing outreach meeting of up to up to 180 people each month with a 2-course meal and with awesome guest speakers. Began Healing and deliverance meetings up and down NZ with some incredible miracles. Built and sponsored an orphanage and ministry in Kenya and Uganda. Began ministry in Faisalabad, doing online crusades with crowds of up to 7,500 people. Helped strengthen and build MLC Church in Faisalabad and then built a bigger building 40 minutes away. Ministered through this media ministry till covid shut it down. Starting again February 2024. MLC Hamilton is a multi-cultural Church with powerful testimonies of God’s supernatural power to save, heal and deliver through the power of the Holy Spirit.

It is a Church filled with God’s love looking to champion each individual to find their true calling in God!

As an atheist my life was radically changed at the age of 33 when I had an encounter with the Presence of God.  I had been brought up going to church but had walked away at 17yrs old convinced there was no God, or at least that we could not know for sure.  I had left challenging God that unless He made Himself real, I could never serve Him. It seemed like there were too many religions and I wasn’t going to sell out to something that wasn’t real.

I had become a very successful businessman, dairy farmer, shearing contractor and along with a partner owned a significant 1450-acre property in Tokoroa.  I was married with 3 children and to all accounts was a picture of success, but after the birth of our 3rdlittle girl my wife got post-natal depression and suddenly left me, taking the kids and devastating my world. I fell into a great hole of depression and fell apart. The farm demanded enormous energy and I had become driven by the work and fit for little else. I knew my faults but had no idea how to fix them. Our marriage was irreconcilable, but my wife moved back to the farm to wait till she could get all the kids to be going to school and then we could divide the property. 

It was a pretty horrible time. I put a share milker on to milk the cows to take the stress off me, but I was spiraling deeper and deeper into depression with seemingly no hope. I was sucking on every drug the doctors and psychiatrists could give me to try and get me out of this hole of depression and to get back my life, but it was hopeless, and nothing worked. This just seemed as if it would go on forever until one day, I was challenged to give my life to Jesus. This seemed ridiculous as I didn’t believe in God, but as I’d tried everything else, maybe I’d go along to Church and see what happened?

The Church I went to wasn’t like the traditional Churches I’d been used too, and everyone was very passionate about their faith and there was exuberant worship. I came to understand this was a Pentecostal Church and that they believed you could have a real relationship with God, and that Jesus can heal you and deliver you. I struggled to comprehend it, but was here now, and then the minister challenged people who wanted to know Jesus to come to the front for prayer. I wouldn’t have gone forward but I was with my mother who pushed me forward. 

I found myself up the front and so I made a challenge to God.

I said, “I don’t know if You’re real, but I know I’m a sinner and if there is a heaven and a hell I don’t want to go to hell. If You truly sacrificed Your Son Jesus to take my punishment and die in my place to save me from hell, I want to know You, but I can’t do this unless I know You’re real. Please forgive me for my sins and make Yourself real. Amen.”

Over the next couple of weeks, I attended Church, and I would try and read the bible, and allow Christians to talk to me. I would ask God to make Himself real to me, while not having any idea how He could, and then one morning as I woke up, I was aware of a powerful presence in the room, in fact it felt like nothing I’d ever experienced before. There were waves of love and then waves of peace, and joy flowing through my body, and it was so beautiful and all I could think of is that if this is a taste of heaven, I want it. My heart was beating fast and even though I never heard a voice I had this amazing sense of power and faith in me to believe, and I knew without a shadow of a doubt that Jesus was real, and He was touching my life. This was supernatural for me to have this overwhelming faith and to be changed from an atheist to a believer but it’s the most significant event of my life. The whole world seemed brighter as if scales had come off my eyes, and I just wanted to sing with joy! The depression was gone, and I felt free, forgiven, and excited for my future knowing that I knew there was a God.

That was half a lifetime ago now, but as a consequence of that encounter with the presence of God, I was healed and delivered from depression and 9 months later my wife having seen the momentous change in me, challenged God to make Himself real and had her own encounter with Jesus. My marriage was healed, and we have never been the same.

Jesus did it for me, He can do it for you!

I was so overcome with the love and presence of God, and now that I was open to believe, I found there were thousands upon thousands, even millions of stories of people’s lives that were changed when they gave their lives to Jesus. I kept thinking how could I have been so blind?

I found volumes of proofs of Jesus through science, history, archaeology, prophesies, testimonies and so many healing miracles that I determined to leave my farms behind and step out and serve the Lord full time, but the Lord kept me on the farm for the next 9 years while He raised me up in the Church. 

He taught me how to pray, read my bible, to serve, to lead worship, heal the sick and cast out demons and then He called me to leave the farms and follow Him, and I suppose the rest is history. 

He’s taken me around the world and taught me how He could plant churches through me and now we live in Hamilton. I came here only knowing one person but now I have a large congregation and churches and ministries all over the world.

Nothing is too difficult with God! He did it for me, He can do it for you!

Begin to ask Jesus to make Himself real to you. Ask Him to forgive your sins and heal your body and join a good Pentecostal Church where the Presence of God is working, and the Word of God is preached. Be baptized and receive the promise of the Holy Spirit and eternal life!  Pastor Geoff Winter. Manifest Love Church 191 Frankton Hamilton. 

DON'T LET YOUR UNBELIEF CUT YOU OFF FROM THE MIRACLE!

After spending the last 25 years walking with God and learning the ways of God, I now travel the nation teaching people how to connect with God's power to heal and to be delivered.

We challenge you to come and receive prayer for your healing! You will learn how to be connected to God and how to access faith in His miraculous provision. You will learn the hindrances and roadblocks to healing and how to remove them so that the healing can flow. You will learn how you can be filled with God's presence and experience his power in you daily life.

•  Was a successful dairy farmer, shearing and fencing contractor till marriage imploded and was deemed irreparable. Consequent burn out followed.
• Saved in spring of 1989 form suicidal bouts of depression in the midst of a ship wrecked marriage.​
• Wife Alison got saved in 1990 , 9 months later. It was a supernatural transformation of our lives.
• Began fellow-shipping at AOG Church in Tokoroa.
• God called me supernaturally into the music ministry as Music director and I began writing songs.
• Became an Elder. in the AOG Church and was raised up through leadership and groomed as a pastor.
• Began every morning prayer meetings at 6:30 am at the Church which I ran for many years. This was a turning point in my life and was the real place of commissioning in the anointing.
• Functioned faithfully in every area of ministry, preaching, teaching, counseling and prayer ministry and began doing itinerant preaching.
• God led us to leave the farm through a number of supernatural events to go into full time ministry and we moved out to Te Aroha. After 18 months of wilderness experience God brought people in off the road who got healed and saved and Pastor Phil Mellar of the Mountain View Apostolic Church suggested I plant a Church. Before long I had a Church on the Marae and then a building in town. The church grew quickly with a real move of the Holy Spirit and signs following.
• Was ordained by Pastor Bob and Laura McGeorge under the Abundant life Churches as a Pastor. Ran every morning prayer meetings. Amazing testimonies of lives saved, healed and delivered. Found my self and family over run with the harvest.
• Did overseas ministry in Uganda.
• Began prison ministry at Waikeria Prison which continued for ten years, powerful times and amazing miracles.
• Went to Canada to spend a year in the School of the Supernatural to learn about Crusade Evangelism.
• Moved to Hamilton, God supernaturally provided a beautiful home. After a period of fasting we saw our new neighbours saved.
• 8 years of Evangelism as a Sky Technician.
• Became President of Full Gospel Business Hamilton and toured NZ sharing testimony.
• God prompted me to plant Manifest Love Church in Hamilton & confirmed it with miracles.
• Manifest Love Church started at Melville Intermediate June 2015, then we moved to Age Concern Building soon after.
• May 2019 we rented an empty warehouse in Ellis Street, Frankton which God then began to show us His supernatural vision & provision to fit out the space & grow the church.

Manifest Love Church and the Ministries involved around it are the product of what God has been building in me and teaching me for the last 27 years. From the very beginning God has Manifest His Love in me and through me and allowed me to partner with Him in seeing countless lives come to Christ and be eternally changed by the power of His Holy Spirit.

What I've come to see in the vast majority of Christians, is that they live far below their God given rights and privileges as "sons and daughters of God. "The price that Jesus paid for us with His blood, and the substitutionary death on the cross of Calvary, was to make it possible for us to have access to all the blessings of heaven NOW! The significance of what that means and how to walk it out in the world around us is our life mission with the added bonus of eternal life. Praise God what a glorious work of deliverance Jesus has won for us through the Cross of Calvary!

My life mission, and the mission of this church and ministries, is to teach and to bring as many people as possible into the knowledge of the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and into their inheritance as "sons and daughters of God."

The bible says that this will be done by a progressive revelation of Jesus as The Word of God and the indwelling transforming power of the Holy Spirit working on that word transforming our minds and our behaviors.

My whole experience with God has always been with Him confirming His Word in me and through me with signs following!

​We believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever and that His gift of salvation includes, healing body, soul and spirit with deliverance, provision, protection and power to live Holy lives that honor God!

If You're looking to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and to be equipped to fulfill your God given destiny then this Church is for you!