Richard Ing has been married to his first sweetheart,
Beatrice, for over fifty years. They have four children. Two are
attorneys and two work for the State of Hawaii. Pastor Ing was born
and raised in Hawaii, where he resides today. He was a civil
engineer before graduating from Hastings College of the Law in San
Francisco. He recently retired from law practice after forty years.
He also owned several businesses, including a real estate firm,
collection agency, travel agency, and newspaper.
Pastor Ing was an Episcopalian and a Baptist in his youth but
backslid when he embraced the fraternity life in college. At the
age of thirty-five, he began to seek God again, but a book entitled
All Paths Lead to God led him to try many different
religions, although he continued to pray to Jesus Christ. When he
was forty-five years old, he and his wife were meditating in a
Shinto temple when the head priestess tapped him on the shoulder
and asked if he “used to go to a church with the cross—Jesus God.”
She claimed that Jesus appeared to her moments earlier and told her
that Mr. Ing and his wife belonged to Him and to send them to Him
right away because time is short. That very night, Mr. and Mrs. Ing
went to pray for a heart patient who was going to have open-heart
surgery the next morning. Two days later, they received a phone
call informing them that a miracle had occurred because the next
morning the pre-surgery exam found that her heart was
perfect!
Pastor Ing became born again in a deliverance ministry a few months
later. He threw himself wholeheartedly into reading the Bible,
serving, and praying, and became an elder in eight months. Two
years later, he had a vision in which he was in a company of
soldiers dressed in combat uniform and packed into a small
building. He recognized it as a training hall he sat in when he
took basic training in the U.S. Army. He saw himself walk down the
steep steps to the front where he stood behind a wooden podium
facing the troops. He then heard a voice say, “Son, I want you to
teach My army!”
When he began teaching spiritual warfare and deliverance in Fiji,
Vanuatu, and other countries, people would often see angels and
white horses. Pastor Ing has given many small (two to three hundred
attending) crusade meetings in the remote provinces of the
Philippines, where God would deliver and heal many and thousands
came to the Lord.
In 1998, as he was teaching at a Bible college in one of the
northernmost provinces of the Philippines, the entire class
suddenly fell to the ground and one of his workers had a vision of
a huge rice field stretching out as far as the eyes could see. The
stalks were so full of grain that they almost touched the ground,
but they were still green. The rice then turned into people in
white robes. The worker opened her eyes and saw a huge angel
standing on the stage with a scroll in his hands. He announced that
a great revival was coming to that area. Many smaller angels were
flying under the ceiling.
Dr. Ing found out later that many have prophesied that the last and
greatest revival of all time would start in the northern provinces
of the Philippines. Three years later, Dr. Ing revisited the Bible
college and his wife and three other members saw the same angel
with two smaller angels on his right and two on his left. Since
then, Dr. Ing has concentrated on the Philippines and made more
than forty-five trips there.
He is the senior pastor of Light of the World Missions in Hawaii
and in the Philippines. He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree
besides a juris doctorate and bachelor of sciences degree, and is
the vice president of New Covenant International Seminary and Bible
College, with over two hundred affiliated Bible colleges around the
world. Dr. Ing operates a Bible college, Mission House, and
Vocational Training Center in the Philippines, along with four
churches. He has lectured on spiritual warfare and inner healing
multiple times in Fiji, Vanuatu, India, mainland China, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Sarawak, Bulgaria, Philippines, Guam, Mexico,
Switzerland, and on the U.S. mainland. He also lectures on house
church restoration for the end times. He will be the first to tell
you that he is unworthy, having been a Peter for so long, and only
through God’s grace and mercy has he been given the privilege of
seeing and experiencing the power of God in action.