So, in the early part of 1987, Tim Johns obeyed God’s voice and moved all his stuff onto his lawn, and Bill Frisbee and his family unloaded his stuff into Tim’s duplex. The movers then loaded Tim’s stuff into the truck that had Bill’s stuff in it and took it up to Richland Center, and Tim Johns moved into Bill’s house and paid him rent. Mic Cosgrave was the mover of these two families. Then the group of believers in Richland Center moved out of the library and into a new building and they changed their name to Richland Center Fellowship (RCF). Tim Johns became the founding Pastor of RCF, which was planted by Grace Ministries. Over the next couple of years, the fellowship in Richland Center had many visitors and received input from the pastors of Kansas City Fellowship.

Then on May 17th, 1987, Tim Johns had his world rocked! Tim had been praying about the children’s ministry for Richland Center, and he was on a retreat at a Baptist retreat center in Green Lake, Wisconsin. Tim was praying late at night in the spirit (tongues) while his wife was asleep, and the Lord appeared to Tim and localized at the end of his bed. Tim felt the power of the Lord like he had never had before. Tim was terrified concerning what was happening, and he started to weep and wondered, “What is going on?” The Lord then spoke to him: “You think you know what it means to ‘change the understanding and expression of Christianity.’ You don’t know, you are completely off. Everything that you think is going to happen is not the way I have designed it to happen. I am not going to repeat revival history the way you understand it. I am going to explain who I am. I am a Father, I am a Son, and I am a Spirit, and you are my son (which caused Tim to think about Romans 8). I build my kingdom relationally in family. Everything I do is driven out of the Trinity. All reality comes from the Trinity. The way that I build my Kingdom is Trinitarian. I am going to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts children back to the father. I am not repeating Christianity; I am changing it. The Lord then told Tim, “I am calling you to be an Apostolic Father.” As the Lord spoke, it was as if he was powerfully downloading books of information into his head almost instantly, much beyond what the Lord spoke to Tim. Tim was experiencing something powerful that was transforming him inside, right then and there. It was much deeper than being sanctified. It was like he was becoming whole and becoming a son like he had never experienced it before. He showed Tim that the church has to become a family and must connect at the human heart. The Lord showed him the anatomy of the human spirit and the capacity of the human heart, and later, He opened Scriptures that he had never understood. The Lord said, “I build from the inside out.” Concerning the whole work of Grace Ministries, He said, “You do not have a family. The model you are using is dysfunctional, and it will not work. It is actually damaging people.” Tim was overwhelmed by this experience. It was like he went to bed as one person and woke up someone completely new.1

Next Sunday at Richland Center, he got up and apologized for being their pastor, because the Lord’s rebuke was so deep. He said, “I don’t know what I am doing at all now.” The core of the Lord’s rebuke was that all the activities were program-based, and they were not a family connected at the heart. He later called Mike and told him, “We are doing it all wrong.” This didn’t compute in Mike’s mind. Tim later started a men’s ministry for the men of Richland Center to grope together and figure out what it meant to be men of God. I wish Pat Bickle would have heard of Tim John’s experience. I think it would have deeply encouraged him.2

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