Around 1926 the famous healing minister John G. Lake started a ministry in Spokane WA, USA which he called ‘HealingRooms’. The idea was to minister to the sick in a safe environment by teams of 3 ministers. The number of recorded healings was enormous. When John G. Lake died in 1935 the HealingRooms were halted.

In 1999 the HealingRooms concept was revived simultaneously by Carl Pierce (originally from Bethel, Redding CA) and by Curry Blake (chairman of JGL ministries).

Carl Pierce founded the International Association of Healing Rooms (IAHR), a network that amounts to 2000 HealingRooms worldwide, with approximately 30.000 volunteers. Headquarters are in Spokane WA. (www.iahr.com)

In 2005 my local church (EGZ Zeewolde) asked me to start a local HealingRoom with a group of people that had already been trained at the national headquarters. This certainly was a call from God. In the 7 year that followed our teams ministered in 5000 prayer sessions. For me HealingRooms was the fulfillment of a long forstered dream; to be able to minister under the guidance of the Holy Spirit on a more permanent basis and to develop the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We all learned a lot as the Lord was sending us more and more broken people as well as those that suffered under demonic oppression.

Shortly after starting the HealingRooms in Zeewolde, my wife, Henny Delina, was diagnosed with colon cancer. Eventually she died in October 2007. Alhough I felt very broken at first, I decided to continue as director of the local HealingRooms.

Around 2009 I started to be invited to many countries to share my HealingRooms experiences. It resulted in establishing the first Romanian HealingRooms in Oradea (Romania) and a ministry for deliverance in the Moravian church of Surinam. Because of my ministry in Eastern Europe the the European leaders appointed me as ‘European HealingRooms Embassador’, meaning that I can teach in Europe and establish HealingRooms in new countries. Since then my activities have been focussed on Eastern Europe; The Baltics, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Republic of North Macedonia and Kosovo.

Outside Europe I have been ministering in Surinam, Guyana, Martinique, Aruba, USA, Kenia and Uganda. In Uganda we started a ‘Mobile spiritual Clinic’ as part of IAHR. With a team of up to 20 people we are traveling to rural villages to do ministry (mainly deliverance)