Agnes I Numer

God uses ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Agnes Irene Numer is one of these.

“One day in 1954, I was washing dishes,” “All at once I felt this ‘mighty presence.’ God told me to read Isaiah 58.”

And so began the call….

Born August 5, 1915, in Racine, Ohio. Passed away July 17, 2010, in Lancaster, Calif. She grew up in Belaire, Ohio, and has lived in the Antelope Valley for 56 years. She was known by many as the Mother Teresa of America, Rev. Agnes I. Numer gave food to the hungry, clothes to those that had none, and love to the unloved. She trained many to walk in the footsteps of sharing Gods love to the nations.

Agnes I. Numer, one of 9 children, was born in Racine, Ohio. When she was only 11 years old, her God-fearing mother died. At 16 years of age, God miraculously changed her life and placed in her heart a burden for the nations of the world.

A few years later, Agnes attended Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts. As she stood in front of the mission board watching her colleagues receive their commissions to go abroad, God told her that she would not go in her younger years but in her later years. Forty years later, almost to the day, Agnes I. Numer stood on African soil for the first time. Since then, she traveled all over the world, bringing the Gospel of the Kingdom to the nations.

In 1954, God revealed to Agnes, in minute detail, Isaiah 58 – His plan for the nations of the world. Always had a heart to help those in need, God began sending people to her door. Local markets and farmers began to contribute food. An international organization reaching out to help a world in need was born from this small beginning.

In 1979, God spoke to Agnes to start a missionary training center where people could be trained by the Spirit of the Lord to meet the spiritual and natural needs of others. God began sending people from all over the world to her 10-acre ranch in the Antelope Valley, CA.

According to the plan that God had given her, she established training centers where leaders received a vision, a hope, a plan and the principles of God’s Kingdom. Those leaders continue to passionately put these principles into practice around the globe. And the vision continues.