Pastor Yaritza Aponte was born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico and moved at the age of 12 years old to Kissimmee, Florida where she has resided since. Her parents are Pastors Ramon L. Aponte and Edna Martinez. Her sister Yadira Aponte and brother Ramon L. Aponte,Jr. She is married to Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Rivera. They have four children Amaris, Brandon, Natalia and Nathan. While living in Florida she obtained an associate degree as a medical assistant and a certification in medical billing.

She currently works as a community liaison for At Home Companion Home Care Agency, and performing medical billing for various doctors in the Kissimmee area.

Being raised in Christianity she began her ministry with her parents. She was called since early age to be a pastor. Members from her father’s church used to call her “la pastorcita”. Over the past few years she has worked with various ministries such as children, youth, pantomime and arts. In 1998, relocated to Fajardo, Puerto Rico where for two years she worked as a volunteer for The Salvation Army, ministering under privileged children and families. 2002 she worked with the children ministry in El Pabellon de La Victoria under the pastoral leadership of Dr. Ruben Perez. In 2006 she became involved with her husband Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Rivera in his evangelistic ministry helping to expand the kingdom by establishing health fairs. In 2007 she began her pastoral calling in the English, Youth and Children ministry at Community of Faith under the pastoral leadership of Rev. Dr. Rafael Mojica. On August 17th, 2008 she accepted God’s call to a higher level and commence a new church in Kissimmee, FL Anointed Community of Restoration and the church was chartered as a religious order/denomination.
 
She is always grateful to her parents and family for been an inspiration in her life and for all their support in our new church.

Dr. Ramón Luis Aponte was born in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, November 20,1946. He lived in the town of Comerío, Puerto Rico during his infancy, adolescence and part of his childhood. His parents were Ramón Aponte and Teresa Sierra who are resting with the Lord. They had three more children, Norma, Migdalia and Edna Ivette.
He obtained a bachellor degree in arts with a concentration in psychology and education at the University of Puerto Rico. Afterwards, he completed e degree in Juris Doctor in 1973 at the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico. He had a private law practice for 10 years in the town of Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Also he completed a master degree in Divinity at the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico and he acquired a doctorate degree in ministriy at Vision International University. He was a professor at various universities in Puerto Rico and in the U.S.A. In the present he founded and teaches in a Bible Institute and offers workshops, conferences and preaches at churches.
He has worked as pastor in six churches, four in Puerto Rico and two in the U.S.A. He founded three of these churches. He founded and worked at four radio broadcasts. He founded a magazine called “The Prophetic Word” and the Abba Ministries dedicated to preaching and teaching.
He has written and published two books; Papito(Abba) and The Kingdom of the Holy Spirit.
He is married to a school teacher Edna Martinez for thirty eight years. They have three children Yadira, Ramón Luis(Jr.) and Yaritza and four grandchildren Natalia, Gamaliel, Gadiel y Nathan.
He resides in Kissimmee, Florida and his e-mail is ramonlaponte@yahoo.com.

Edna Martinez was born in New York City in 1949. Her parents were Manuel Martinez and Gloria Rivera. She moved to Puerto Rico in 1960 and completed middle and High School in the town of Comerio, Puerto Rico. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Secondary Education with a major in English. She also graduated Suma Cum Laude. In 1968 she married Ramon L. Aponte and had three children, Yadira, Ramon L. Jr. and Yaritza. In the present, she is working as a compliance teacher for the ESOL program at the Orange County in Orlando, Florida.

They both received a calling from the Lord in 1981. Since then she has been serving the Lord through different ministries. She pastor with Disciples of Christ for six years. She also founded three churches with her husband. She has worked as pastor in six churches, four in Puerto Rico and two in the U.S.A. Her gifts are leadership, administration, programming, worship, planning, coordinating activities, ministering, exhortation and others. In the present, she is serving as one of the elders at Anointed Community of Restoration.

Pastor Jeffrey Rivera was born and raised in NYC. His parents are Ernesto J. Rivera and Carmen L. Rivera. He is married to Pastor Yaritza Aponte. They have four children Amaris, Brandon, Natalia and Nathan. Pastor Yari has helped in every aspect of his life. He lived in the Bronx for 30 years before relocating to Florida eight years ago. While in New York he obtained various degrees in the medical field; RN BSN degree from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, MBA from the University of Phoenix, Doctorate from Vision International University. He worked in various Level One trauma hospitals in the ER department, also worked for NYC EMS (Fire Dept) as a paramedic. He achieved various levels of certification; ER trauma certification, Board Certified Emergency Nurse, CCRN, BTLS, PICC Line Certification, National Triage Certification, and CPC professional billing coder.

His doctorate concentration is in theological ministry. He accepted Jesus Christ as his savior in 2001 while attending New Destiny Church under the pastoral leadership of Dr. Zachary Tims. In 2002 he became involved with evangelistic ministry helping to expand the kingdom by establishing health fairs. He started at New Destiny and continued at New Jerusalem church under the pastoral leadership of Rev. Dr. Orlando Perez. Over the past few years he began to help in various ministries such as men’s ministry, youth ministry, and street ministry. In 2007 He began his calling of preaching at Community of Faith under the pastoral leadership of Rev. Dr. Rafael Mojica. On August 17th, 2008 he accepted God’s call to a higher level and commence a new church in Kissimmee, Anointed Community of Restoration, September 2008 he was ordained as a Reverend and the church was chartered as a religious order/denomination.