Marcella J. Ruch

Between 1997 and 2001, Marcella J. Ruch authored three books: Pablita Velarde, Painting Her People; The Gang of One, The Life of Vera Gang Scott; and Just Doing My Job: The Life of Norvell Simpson. Pablita Velarde is available from Amazon, the other two are available at the Pikes Peak Community Action Agency in Colorado Springs, CO. Her next book will be about Health Care for the uninsured and Healing Ministry needed in every church. Currently she is on the Spiritual Care staff at the Yuma Regional Medical Center in Yuma, AZ as Coordinator of the Healthy Heart Project, an effort to involve churches in stabilizing and healing heart patients using volunteer nurses..

Marcella Ruch, an Evangelist in the United Methodist Church, is a retired educator with a Ph.D. in Administration. She completed her local pastor training at Illif Seminary in Denver, Colorado in 2000. Her work for the last 10 years has been starting and supporting Healing and Prayer Ministry in Methodist Churches across the country. Her training in Healing Prayer Ministry comes from both the Methodist Church and Christian Healing Ministries in Jacksonville, FL. Where she has completed Levels I, II, and III.

1)She lives in Colorado Springs, CO where God asked her to open a Mission Medical Clinic in 2001. It opened in 2004. People receive prayer and medical care at the same place. Supported by 77 churches of all denominations as a mission project, it owns and is located in a mortgage-free million-dollar medical building. About 250 people volunteer there to help heal the sick.

Marcella has served on three medical/dental trips to Cambodia to work with the Methodist Mission office in Phnom Phen. She also helped with the Russian Initiative going on mission trips to Russia in 1997 and 1999. Her future mission work will be helping re-establish healthcare for women in Liberia. In January, 2011 she traveled to Liberia to make a documentary film about the need for health care for women. She and others started a new charity, Healthy Women, Health Liberia! to oversee this much needed project. The next trip she will lead is to Liberia in 2012. Her last two projects for God's work were helping start a free central fill pharmacy (TLC Pharmacy (The Lord Cares ), for El Paso and Teller Counties in Colorado Springs, CO (population 700,000) and organizing a Day of Surgical Giving ( 75 low income people with health insurance received free surgery). Marcella's work is Healing the Sick in the name of Jesus, with doctors or prayer, or both. She loves teaching about God at work in today's world and helps churches develop a prayer ministry when invited. She is a graduate of Level I, Level II, and Level II of Christian Healing Ministries prayer training in Jacksonville, FL. She teaches all those levels in churches as part of her ministry, as well as working on Liberia.

Her newest work is called Restoring Women's Health to Liberia. Currently in Liberia, women are dying of all kinds of cancer. The health infrastructure was destroyed in the civil war, and the courageous women who made the war stop, are now without basic feminine health services. This project will need volunteers and funding from across the world. Interested persons should contact Marcella at mpruch@msn.com.