The founder and president of Faith, Hope and Charity Mission is Minister Angel Coakley. Minister Coakley graduated from Delta College with an Associates Degree and also Saginaw Valley State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences in Communication and Theater with a minor in Sociology..
"On April 22, 2004 the Holy Spirit woke me up at 2:30 a.m. I asked the Lord, "What is it Lord?" I believe the Lord said, I am going to use your life to get the glory out of it. Tears began to flow gently down my face. I felt deep inside my heart the Lord saying, I pulled you up out of the mud and placed your feet on a solid rock. Now, I want you to feed my sheep! I repeated, feed your sheep? Lord, I don't know how to do that and what will I say? I believe the Lord said to me, tell them I love them. Then suddenly, I felt the heavy burden of the people in the city on my shoulders and it began to weigh me down and it hurt very badly, I felt the Lord's heart cry over his people. I started crying uncontrollably, Lord, I cried, I can't handle the burden; it was so deep and strong. I cried out, "Oh Lord! I can't take it, and at that moment, I felt the Lord lift the burden."
"I believe the Lord said according to Jeremiah, (KJ) I have commissioned you to feed my sheep! I have called you out and set you apart. You have been broken, ashamed and humiliated. You know the pain of hopelessness through your own hurts and suffering." Again, I believe the Lord asked me a question? Do you remember when you were down in the mud? Well, I was there with you! Daughter, I have never left you or forsaken you! I pulled your feet up out of the muddy mess. Now that you have been broken and spilled out, I am going to get the glory out of your life!"
"Again, I cried out, Oh Lord! "You want to use my messy mess when, I blew my own testimony? At that time, I didn't sense the Lord's say anything. It was a deep hush. So, I surrendered and said yes Lord to His will. You can use my messy testimony. About ten years ago, when I fell from grace, I repented and surrendered my life back to the Lord. I asked the Lord, to give me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me.
I believe the Lord said to me, Daughter, I have spoken through you many times according to my word and no one would listen. They have tried to keep you in a box. Like fire shut up in my bones I believe the Lord is taking me out of the box! Out of my comfort zone and things with which I am familiar with. The Lord is stretching me and I will never be the same.
Now that I have been broken so badly that I didn't even recognize myself. I live a life of transparency. I cannot be silent anymore. According to Jeremiah 12:10-13 the vineyard which is the city has been trodden down, immersed in hopelessness, desperate, suffocated and withered. The Holy Bible said people that normally don't pray are praying now and asking God how long Lord?
I believe the people are asking the Lord, Lord, how long will I continue to suffer in a ratty situation. My kids don't have shoes and I don't have enough money to keep the lights on. My house is infested with pestilence, Lord, my kids are going crazy and some are in the streets on drugs, some parents haven't even seen their children? People are out of jobs like never before. Lord, doesn't anybody care about us because so many kids are dying around us. Where is the love of moma'em, you remember that love that kept you safe in the midnight hour. Sirens are going off, all over the city and outside of the land. Sorrow is found in many mothers' eyes, our world is filled with so much sadness, where is the hope for our life? Let's save our babies, let's save our children, let's save our land.
