Since 1990, when they entered full-time ministry, God has continued to expand their vision. In addition to being RTF ministers themselves, they have established RTF ministry programs within churches, conducted Healing/Deliverance, Activation, and Advanced Training Seminars and Conferences, and trained RTF Ministry Teams throughout the USA and in other nations. They have also been training and overseeing others as RTF ministers and trainers within the local church and the Healing House Network.

They founded Proclaiming His Word Ministries, Inc., in 1992. God had said that others would be joining them, and that they were to prepare a covering organization for them. This did occur, as over the years a number of top-quality RTF ministry teams joined PHW and ministered within the CI/PHW Healing House and throughout the nation.  By the year 2000, over 16 trained RTF ministers and trainers, as well as office staff, were working with Proclaiming His Word Ministries.

In January, 2001, they launched the Healing House Network as a covering membership organization for the many qualified RTF Ministry Teams ministering at the Healing House level of professionalism. This network is providing quality RTF personal ministry for individual and couples, training and oversight, as well as functioning as a nationwide and international referral center.

Chester and Betsy were based at Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, in association with Christian International Ministries from 1993 to 2004.  They oversaw the CI/PHW Healing House, where they and other RTF ministry teams served leaders and others in the Body of Christ using the intensive one-week Thorough ministry format.  They are ordained by Christian International Apostolic Network, founder Bishop Bill Hamon, and are members of the CI Board of Governors.

Then in July, 2004, the Lord providentially arranged the purchase of Echo Mountain Inn in Hendersonville, NC, as the home of the Restoring the Foundations International Training Center.  Chester and Betsy, alone with several other Healing House Network team members and staff moved to Hendersonville to operate both the Inn and the Training Center.  The first charter class arrived on August 1, 2004.  Immediately the Lord begin to bring forth effective and profound healings through these new students.  They were quickly raised to significant levels of ministry, much faster then had been normal in the past.  Two complete series of Training Modules will be offered each year, along with numerous seminars, conferences and specialized topics classes.  Please visit the Training Center web site for the latest information.

The Kylstras have developed a number of resources to help train RTF ministers. Their initial book, and the main one used to train Restoring the Foundations ministers, is Restoring the Foundations, first released in 1993 and 1996.  The second edition has been available since 2000.  Then they along with Dorathy Railey wrote a training/reference manual for RTF ministers to take into the ministry room. It is entitled Ministry Tools for Restoring the Foundations. This book is what it's title indicates, a manual with "tools" to increase the effectiveness of the ministering process.  In 2004, a reduced version of the RTF book entitled An Integrated Approach to Biblical Healing Ministry was released through Sovereign World Publishers in the UK, and later in the US through Baker books.  These resources, along with many tape sets and the Restoring the Foundations Healing and Deliverance Video Course, in the Resource web pages.  (Not all of these resources are listed in the Online Resource Store.  Please call 828-696-9075, ext 122 for information and pricing on all of our resources.)

Another important training and ministry set of publications are the Issue-Focused Ministry publications. Using them, any Christian leader can increase his effectiveness in bringing God's healing touch to one specific problem or issue in a person's life.  These publications are particularly well suited for Cell Group Leaders and other small group leaders to use in ministering to their members.

You may learn more about the Restoring the Foundations ministry at other pages on this web site, as well as at other related sites.  (Back to the Home page.)

Healing House Network Web Site:  www.healinghouse.org

Issue-Focused Ministry Web Site:  www.cellgroups.org