Heidi Baker:The Little Woman Who’s Changing the World

I have never met anyone quite like Heidi Baker. I had the privilege of being in a service with her about three years ago as she came to share a word that God had given her for our church. To look at Heidi Baker, you would probably think that she’s a little “school Marm”. She probably isn’t 120 pounds soaking wet…but don’t let her small size fool you. At 46 years old, she and her husband Roland have accomplished in just a few short years what it would take most countries to accomplish over several decades.

Heidi & Roland Baker make their home and ministry in the country of Mozambique, near the area called Pemba. Where most people would look upon this place as a hopeless cause, they out of obedience have moved there with their children and are literally turning the modern-day church on it’s collective ear. When Heidi Baker came to my home church in Florence, Alabama, she made me very uncomfortable. For you see, I had never looked into the face of Jesus until I saw Heidi Baker. This was a woman who has been with God. There was such an anointing on her the day that she spoke at our church that many times she would “bow” over almost seeming to be in pain. She was not in pain as we might think, but under such a strong anointing from The Holy Ghost that she found it hard to stand upright and speak in a normal way. Recently, on a trip to Ohio to preach at a conference sponsored by Jim & Michael Ann Goll, Heidi had to preach about half the time laying on her face in the floor. The Power and Anointing of The Holy Spirit would not permit her to stand. This anointing no doubt was the result of much prayer and fasting. In Mozambique, many refer to her as “the dirt lady” because she will literally lay with her face in the dirt for hours at a time crying out to God to save the people of Mozambique. Her prayers have not gone unheeded. In the few short years that Heidi & Roland have been in Mozambique, they have established over 8,000 churches in the bush, established four feeding centers, opened schools, and been a tremendous light to a very dark part of the world that is predominantly Muslim.

Heidi Baker is quick to point out that it is not her or her family or her helpers that have done this, but it is the blessing and favor of God that has performed this. She is quick to give God all the glory that He so richly deserves. Most people in the modern-day church would set themselves up as a “superstar” in the church. They would have a “megachurch” with cutting-edge technology. They would have their latest book available, and with a proper donation to their ministry, would even send it to you. That is exactly opposite of what Heidi Baker is about. Never one to want the spotlight, many times she will turn down lucrative speaking engagements for small, out-ofthe- way ministry opportunities for little or no pay.

The day that she came to my church, I realized that I was nowhere even close to God as this lady was. As I said before, she made me uncomfortable. (I’ve seen grown men begin to wail and to weep at the mear touch of her hand upon them.)

Heidi Baker is one of the people in the Kingdom that really “gets it”. She realizes that her life is worth nothing if she doesn’t spend her whole life engrossed in doing the Father’s will. Many times when she ministers and invites people to come up to be healed or set free, she will ask the many orphans that she and her family take care of to come and to lay hands upon them. She is quick to instruct that she doesn’t have to touch anyone herself, but that God can use the children just as powerfully as herself. They have seen thousands come to Christ, receive supernatural healings (including the growing back of limbs) and they have documented proof of 53 people being raised from the dead through the ministry of several who have mentored under Heidi & Roland. Being around Heidi Baker will change you. You begin to question whether your life is being lived to the fullest. You begin to wonder if you are in the perfect Will of God.

As I child, I would always pray that God would give me the Faith & Anointing to be and preach like D.H. Queener. In 2006, my prayer has been, “Lord, give me the Faith & courage of Heidi & Roland Baker, and let me turn my world upside down, just as they are doing.” I will tell you from personal experience…Be careful what you ask for! 

CG