In March of 2005, my life changed forever when I met Rick Heeren over the phone. I knew God had called me to be a great salesman for the Word of God and to be a catalyst to transform the state of Virginia, but I didn’t know how.

When Rick and his wife, Rachel, first came to Culpeper Virginia in June 2005, Rick said his goal was to establish a beachhead for prayer evangelism. God used him to do that. Within two weeks, Pray Culpeper was birthed and a committed group of marketplace and pulpit ministers began meeting weekly to pray for our community.

Rick originally came to Culpeper because the two of us had a strong spiritual connection and he believed me when I told him Culpeper was destined to be a detonator city for prayer evangelism for all of Virginia. I told Rick a spiritual tsunami was coming to Virginia in 2007. That’s the year the focus of the entire world turns to Virginia as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the birthplace of English-speaking America and where Christianity first got rooted in America.

In August 2005, Rick came back to Culpeper. While staying at the home of my former anesthesia associate, he led her husband to the Lord. This generous couple then donated $10,000 to send three people to Argentina for the Harvest Evangelism conference in October 2005. I was one of those fortunate people. In Argentina, I first met Ed Silvoso, who I now believe is God’s chosen servant to teach and lead others to disciple entire nations.

The entire Heeren family, including Rick, Rachel, Derek, and Arleigh, visited Culpeper in February 2006. Virginia Morton, the author of “Marching Through Culpeper,” took their family on historic tours of Culpeper and Orange Counties – the cradle of religious freedom for the world – where the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was birthed.

Dr. Randy Peck
“Blessed to be a blessing”
The Connector – connecting people, ideas, and resources in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit