Raw, Real and Unafraid. 

MINISTRY, MARRIAGE, FAMILY, BUSINESS AND... LIFE! 

Written by: Colette Toach

Only those who have been there, understand the complications of standing side by side, doing the work of the ministry with your spouse. You are husband and wife. Co-founder. Apostles of the work. Leaders of the team and best friends.

Heaven on earth or a recipe for disaster? Dare we say a little bit of both? We have been in full-time ministry since 1999. We have 4 natural children and umpteen spiritual ones. We soon learned the importance of "swapping hats" understanding our individual mandates as apostles and ... what our temperaments were. We don’t present a perfect picture, but an image steeped in a life of hard knocks. Do we have all the answers? Hardly! However, what we can do is assist with your journey. 

Personal Life

If you have read my books, then you know who I am. If not, let me see if I can sum it up for you. Firstly, I do not take myself very seriously am not easily offended (unless you come for one of my kids) Jesus Christ is the center of my being.

My husband Craig Toach keeps me stable. We have been to hell and back more than once in our marriage. We aren’t afraid to be real concerning the struggles of being apostles, parents and maintaining a passionate marriage. I do not sugarcoat my convictions. I’m the first to admit that my greatest struggle along this journey has been between being the mother I need to be, the wife I want to be and the apostle I am called to be.

Craig and I have three natural daughters and a son. Our eldest daughters both married in 2017, our youngest married in 2019 giving Craig and I three incredible sons-in-law.

Deborah-Anne Velthuysen is now married to Michael Velthuysen and together they lead our Prophetic Training School. Jessica Toach, is married to Austin Toach and leads our Fivefold Ministry Campus.

Our youngest daughter, Rebekah Toach, was married in 2019 to Dalton Beckering, a mighty prophetic warrior. She leads a team of fundraisers and ministry event co-ordinators. Our son-in-law Dalton is the bookshop manager of all our content.

Our youngest son, Michael - has his mother’s impatience and his father’s personality. He has a passion for the Word and takes me to school with his childlike simplicity.

The greatest honor I have is to have my children serve with us in the work. We are watching their journey and look forward to where the Lord will lead them next and what foundations they will lay on their own!

Our Ministry Journey

Our journey began when we boarded a plane in 1998 with, our then, two small daughters. Waving goodbye to our country, South Africa, we began our 24-hour journey. Six suitcases, two kids and with a fire for God, we entered into full-time ministry in based in Mexico under the leadership of my father, alongside my sister and brother-in-law. A time of training and foundation laying started the moment our feet hit Mexican soil.

It did not take long for all of us to see that the Lord had a much larger vision than we first realized. The Lord began giving a revelation of the Fivefold Ministry and before long our training mechanism began taking shape. My father with the anointing to teach and Craig and I with the anointing to implement and train, we had our first ministry experiences centered around teamwork.

It was May of 1999 and the ministry hit an immovable roadblock. As a team, we went walking the beach in Rosarito, Mexico to seek the Lord. We were talking about the future of the ministry and the vision came to me, “What if we started an online prophetic school?” Now today there are prophetic schools everywhere, but back then we had hard ground to break.

Moving Into 2000

Moving forward to 2000… I was the kind of person who enjoyed to break ground, surrounded by hard work, drama and impossible tasks. At that time, my father taught the materials and I wrote the lessons for our schools. He taught - I trained. It was my “happy place” that laid the foundation of the trainer of trainers I would later become.

It was as we were breaking ground and mentoring those God brought to us that I started putting resources together. At that point the Lord started using me a lot in the ministry of dream interpretation. My father challenged me to stop being “all prophet” and to teach on the subject of dreams and visions. And so my first book The Way of Dreams and Visions was born in 2000. From there the prophetic heart in me exploded with a personal journey for all prophets in Practical Prophetic Ministry.

Something started turning that took us on the course we find ourselves on today. Everything I knew began to change.

Our little school of 50 students was born and God brought in trainee prophets from all over the world. we were so terribly proud of each one! (We are even prouder to say that we are still in touch with a number of them after all these years!) We knew them by name and invested every moment we had into their call. We held our first prophetic conference in Mexico later that year and from there the doors opened to the United States and Switzerland. We did not know it back then, but the personality of our apostolic call was beginning to take shape.

There were many other detours along the way, one which sent us to Switzerland for a number of years, where we found some of the mighty warriors that are still with us today. Another was the unexpected separation from my father, leaving Craig and I to pick up the pieces and to start establishing the ministry as Apostolic Movement International.

So in August 2009, at the dedication of our son, my father handed the entire ministry over to Craig and I and our separation was official. Now the work really began and where Craig had been kept in the background before, now began to step forward and take his place. Craig’s first order of business was to officially register Apostolic Movement International and work at pulling the ministry out of the financial rock bottom we received it in.

Our Journey to Spiritual Parenting and the birth of Toach Ministries

No matter where Craig and I went though, the Lord gathered many mighty warriors to us. Our journey towards spiritual parenting was not one we had planned. We saw others go through that process and we were not keen to jump into that fray. The Lord won out though and before long He was literally placing them on our doorstep.

Now keep in mind that Craig and I are not “half measure” people. When we took on a spiritual child, this involved bringing them into our homes. Feeding them, clothing them and taking care of all their needs. We did so at our own expense using any finances we got through the sale of my books and courses.

Together we have raised up and imparted to some of the most incredible spiritual warriors! As the Lord continues to add new ones to us, the ones that came at the beginning have moved on to take up positions in their own ministry or start new divisions of our ministry.

Toach Ministries International and the Next Gen Prophets

When you are born into ministry center life and God holds you back to impart to your team, you would be surprised how comfortable it becomes. It becomes so comfortable in fact, that you want to stay there for forever.

The Lord had been pursuing Craig and I for some years, nudging us to go public with our message. The strong call came when we were pursued by Ann Marie Kelly, a representative of Charisma Media. She did not let up and her message was clear - it was time to STEP OUT!

Along with our teams, we knew that God was not messing about. Within a number of weeks our podcast Next Gen Prophets was born and our mandate as apostolic parents began to take shape. How ironic, looking back over our process, to see just how much God had shaped us to mentor and parent His Next Gen Prophets!

Except instead of reaching the circle within our reach, He opened the doors to step out further.

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