About The Senior Pastor/Overseer
Apostle Pate was born in Wilson, NC. She is the mother of two and grandmother of six. She served several years in the military and received many awards to include four Foreign Mission awards and two Combat Duty awards. In 1995 after being medically retired from the Army, she moved to Fayetteville, NC where she resides.
She has furthered her education in the studies of Criminal Justice and has also received a BA in Christian Counseling with License from Calvary Theological Seminary, Lake Charles, Louisiana, and is currently working on her Masters in Clinical Christian Counseling with License. She is a Certified Temperament Counselor, Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor and working on certification in Anger Management, Substance Abuse and Marriage and Family Management. She is a Certified Professional Member of the NCCA (National Christian Counseling Association), founder of (KCIFM) Kingdom Connections International Fellowship of Ministries and is a member of (GFAM) Global Fellowship of Apostolic Ministries.
At the age of 12, ministry was beginning for Apostle Pate as the Lord began to use her in the prophetic, and now He has anointed her to walk in the Five-Fold Ministry gifting with a strong healing and deliverance ministry. She is the founder and pastor of Healing Hands of Love Ministries (now Healing Hands of Love Kingdom Connections Int’l) which started in 1993 in Columbia, SC. In 1996 she answered the call to full-time ministry again and soon after began a more formal an in-depth ministerial training which prepared her for the greater work she now does in ministry today.
Along with the healing and deliverance part of ministry, Apostle Pate strives to teach God’s people how to cultivate and walk in their divine call and gifting which God desires to be manifested in their lives through the Empowered For Purpose School of Ministry which began in January 2013 and in her leading and sharing with her covenant ministries in the (KCIFM) Kingdom Connections International Fellowship of Ministries which was established in 2017.
She also continues to serve God’s people by feeding, clothing and encouraging/empowering on a weekly basis in HHOL’s Food Pantry/Soup Kitchen, Enrichment Center Healing Center, etc. She served for over 20 years in the NC Jail and Prison System; 15yrs of those as Jail Chaplain and Jail Ministry Director for the Cumberland County Detention Center where she has enjoyed sharing a word of hope with Inmates while encouraging them to strive to make positive changes in their lives. She has also served as a Cumberland County Rape Crisis on-call Volunteer and a Domestic Violence Intervention Counselor. She is the author of “Mending The Broken Pieces” published in 2004 and two other books to be released very soon.
While serving in the Military, God favored her with opportunities to travel all over the World which also allowed her to see much sadness and devastation throughout the land. Because of this, she now has an urgency in her spirit; to reach as many as possible, doing whatever it takes, to help bring about healing, wholeness and change in the lives of God’s people.
Apostle Pate believes that with God all things are possible and that everyone can be “Restored, Strengthened and Empowered” for the purpose God has ordained for their lives. Now, after being healed physically and mentally from domestic violence, partial paralyzation, blindness and cancer; delivered from drugs and alcohol; and being snatched out of the hands of the enemy, she has vowed to run faithfully for the Lord, mending the broken pieces, with healing hands of love.
About The Savannah, GA - Campus Pastor
Pastor Vicki Gatling has been married to James Gatling, Jr for 34 years and they have two children, Amber and Jamal Gating. She is originally from Rocky Mount, NC and grew up in Shiloh Baptist Church. She attended North Carolina A&T State University and earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Architectural Engineering and a Master’s of Degree in Structural Engineering. She has worked for Federal service for 30 years in which 25 was with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, GA and 5 with the Directorate of Public Works, Fort Bragg, NC.
Through her walk she had no idea that God would use her to break down a lot of strongholds and bias opinions that man had of the African American woman. Vicki was the first female African American to hold numerous positions that eventually open the doors of opportunity for other African American females to follow.
She was the first female African American Project Engineer, the first female African American, Chief of Office Engineering, at Fort Bragg, NC, and the first female African American, Senior Project Manager, Savannah, GA during her tenure with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Vicki was the first African American female Project Manager and the first African American female Chief of Engineering Division (current position) with the Directorate of Public Works, Fort Bragg, NC. Although she paved the path for a lot of female women, in her career field, she acknowledges that it was one of God’s divine purpose for her life.
Vicki was ordained as an Elder in December 2020, elevated to the position of Assistant Pastor in September 2021, ordained as a Pastor in January 2023 at Healing Hands of Love and on July 30, 2023 she was installed as Healing Hands of Love Savannah, Ga Campus Pastor. She is excited about what God is doing in her life. She will never brag and say that she is the brightest bulb on any tree, but you best believe, she will gladly illuminate the light that God has given her to defeat the enemy and lead someone to salvation.