About The Refinery

Our Mission
The Refinery exists to equip, empower, and ignite a generation of Spirit-led believers who will bring revival to Flint and beyond. We train kingdom-minded leaders who walk in holiness, authority, and unshakable faith.

Our Vision
To be a divine furnace where God’s people are purified, empowered, and sent forth to bring revival fire into our city and beyond.

Our Core Beliefs

• Purity: Called to holiness and a life free from compromise (Hebrews 12:14).
  
  
  

• Power: Moving in miracles, signs, and wonders (Matthew 10:1).
  
  
  

• Prayer & Intercession: Watchmen contending for revival (Ezekiel 22:30).
  
  
  

• Prophetic Activation: Hearing and boldly declaring God’s Word (Amos 3:7).
  
  
  

• Deliverance & Restoration: Setting captives free and healing the broken (Luke 4:18-19).
  
  Who We Are

• The Refinery stands as a prophetic ministry within the eternal purposes of Almighty God, called forth in this generation to serve His sovereign plan of redemption and restoration.

• We are not a local church, but a specialized expression of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church—the mystical body of Christ, purchased with His precious blood (Acts 20:28, Ephesians 1:22-23). We exist as part of the "ekklesia"—the called-out ones—summoned from darkness into His marvelous light to proclaim the excellencies of Him who called us (1 Peter 2:9).

• Our Divine Mandate

• Like the ancient Levites who were set apart for sacred service (Numbers 8:14-16), we are called to a ministry of consecration and preparation. We stand in the lineage of those who have been chosen to "prepare the way of the Lord" (Isaiah 40:3, Matthew 3:3), serving as forerunners who make ready a people prepared for the Lord (Luke 1:17).

• Our calling echoes the ancient cry of the watchmen upon the walls of Jerusalem: "I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth" (Isaiah 62:6-7).

• The Refining Process

• We embrace our identity as those being refined in the furnace of affliction (Isaiah 48:10), understanding that our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29) who purifies His people as gold and silver are purified (Malachi 3:2-3). Like Gideon's army, reduced from many to few (Judges 7:2-7), we believe God is raising up a remnant—not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble—but those whom God has chosen to put to shame the things which are mighty (1 Corinthians 1:26-29).

• We stand in the tradition of the sons of Issachar, "who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do" (1 Chronicles 12:32), recognizing that we live in the last days when God is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28, Acts 2:17).

• Our Covenantal Identity

• We are bound together not merely by human affinity, but by the new covenant sealed in Christ's blood (Luke 22:20). We are living stones being built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood offering up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ (1 Peter 2:5). Our fellowship transcends natural bonds, for we have been made partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17).

• Like the company of prophets under Samuel and Elijah (1 Samuel 19:20, 2 Kings 2:3-5), we are a community of those who have been marked by the Spirit for prophetic ministry—not to build our own kingdom, but to advance His kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33).

• The Hour We Serve

• We recognize that we have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this (Esther 4:14). We stand at the threshold of the greatest harvest in human history (Matthew 9:37), in the hour when knowledge shall increase and many shall run to and fro (Daniel 12:4). We believe we are witnessing the beginning of the fulfillment of Habakkuk's prophecy: "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" (Habakkuk 2:14).

• Our Sacred Commission

• We do not seek to replace the local church, but to serve her—to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:12-13).

• We are called to be like the men of Zebulun, "experienced in war, adept with all weapons of war, fifty thousand who could keep rank; they were not of double heart" (1 Chronicles 12:33). We train spiritual warriors who can stand in the evil day, having done all, to stand (Ephesians 6:13).

• Our heart's cry echoes that of John the Baptist: "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30). We labor not for our own glory, but for the glory of the coming King, preparing His bride without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27).

• In this sacred trust we stand, by His grace we serve, and for His glory we live.