Dr.
Ivory Swindle, an engineer and entrepreneur by trade, is the Owner and former Operator of Swin & Sons HVAC. He is the proud father of 5 handsome sons and 1 beautiful daughter. He has 23 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren and a host of children in the ministry.
After spending years in the HVAC industry, Dr. Swindle accepted his call to the ministry in the early 1990's . He and Apostle Lillie Swindle co-founded Deliverance Temple Restoration Ministries in 1991, and Dr. Swindle was ordained in 1992.
Dr. Swindle, an avid learner, graduated from BTW High School. He then went on to become an HVAC engineer. He further studied and graduated from Jacksonville Theological Seminary obtaining a Bachelor in Christian Education, a Bachelor in Theology, a Masters in Christian Counseling, and a Doctorate in Theology.
Dr. Ivory Swindle has a heart for the people and strives to make sure everyone plays a part in uplifting the kingdom of God. He demonstrates servant leadership and goes to great length to make sure things are carried out for the Lord decently and in order. He lives by the statement, "it doesn't matter where you come from, it just matters where you are going".
Apostle Swindle is an anointed vessel of God who has a ministry to
the whole body of Christ. She accepted
her call in 1982 to an evangelistic ministry.
She has been anointed and appointed by God to the ministry of
evangelizing, teaching, preaching, healing and deliverance. She received her call to the office of pastor
in 1990.
She and her husband pioneered a healing and deliverance
ministry in the inner city of Memphis, Tennessee in 1992 called Deliverance Temple Restoration
Church. She has been a full–time
pastor since 1994, after resigning her job as a Registered Nurse in one of the
local hospitals. She currently serves as
a faculty member of Memphis Bible College.
She serves as Director /Facilitator of J. T. S. Theological Seminary in Southaven, Mississippi.
Conducting revivals in Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan, she has traveled as an evangelist for many years. She has been commissioned by God to preach
and teach the good news unto the meek, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to captives and to open the prison doors to them that are bound. She loves the Lord and desires to see God’s
people living the victorious life that Jesus Christ purchased for them.
Dr.
Ivory Swindle, Senior Pastor & Apostle Lillie Swindle have been
in ministry since the founding of Deliverance Temple Restoration Church on
September 30, 1991 with thirty-five (35) members. The church established a board of Trustees,
Deacons/Deaconess, and Elders, which all gave strong financial support to the
ministry. In addition to this, the
church body formed a Men and Women Ministry, Youth Ministry, Music Ministry,
and a Christian Education Department.
Our
congregation grew to approximately one-hundred and six (106) members, and began
worshipping, in our own facility, at 281 East Georgia Avenue, County of Shelby,
Memphis, Tennessee. We served this
community for six (6) years, through outreach ministry consisting of
door-to-door evangelism, visiting juvenile court, hospitals, prisons, and
nursing homes.
We
relocated in January 1, 1999 to 1377 North Bellevue in the New Chicago area of
Memphis, TN. Our ministry has grown to include a prayer ministry, praise teams,
a clothes closet, a food pantry, neighborhood zone ministries, a multimedia ministry, and drama and
dance ministries.
Deliverance
Temple Restoration Ministries, Inc. is a church reaching out with love and
dedication to all who will come. We are
increasing because we are a church where everybody is somebody.
(1) Establish a prison ministry, with
an after care program
(2) Develop a leadership-training
program
(3) Establish a Youth Ministry
(4) Establish a School of Ministry
(5) Educate teams for street
Ministry
(6) Tent Revivals at least three times a year
(7) Build a family life center,
with a focus on restructuring the family
unit, and build a homeless shelter.
(8) To establish a strong follow- up ministry
(9) Deacons and Deaconess classes to strengthen
the outreach ministry.
(10) Child- care facility,
for both pre-school and after care program.
(11) GED. Program to
establish self- esteem in the community.
(12) Teach God's people to walk in
victory.
