Essencology

Professor Derrick A. Reeves

​Dr. Reeves is a Bishop of an International Organization known as the Pentecostal Churches of The Apostolic Faith International. The organization has churches thoroughout the United States, the Phillipines, Africa and other parts of the world.  He is the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of West Virginia as well as a member of the Board of Bishops of the Organization and currently serves as the Resource Bishop of the Tri-State Council which is composed of Kentucy, Ohio and West Virginia. He is the Bishop over the Ministerial Alliance Educational Program  He is currently the founder , president and Chair of the Reeverian Ministerial Educational Group (R.M.E.G.) .   R.M.E.G. began with 17 Institutes of Higher Learning and now concentrates on the areas of

 

1.  Ministry

 

2.  Theology

 

3.  Education

 

4.  Prayer Technology

 

5.  Biblical Counseling

 

R.M.E.G. Became a school specifically developed to aid ministers and leaders in obtaining their training for the ministry.  The Reeverian Research Group was eventually formed to expand the research in the various areas of research and therefore all of the other studies were moved into this new institute connected to RRG.  This new institute was rightly named RRGI (The Reeverian Research Group Institute (RRGI) and online television programming was developed to provide resources to those students and was eventually opened for a wider viewing audience.

 

He is also the founder of the Reeverian Research Group (RRG) and the Reeverian Research Group Institute.

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Dr. Reeves is the recipient of a Bachelor's of Ministry, Doctorate of Theology, Doctorate of Divinity and a Doctorate of Philosophy.  He is currently working on his Doctoral Degree in Biblical/Pastoral Counseling with a concentration on Sexology.  He is also the founder, Chair and C.E.O. of  Reeverian Concepts LLC which is a development company that specializes in educational consulting, publications and productions.  He is the chief photographer of his own studio and an avid composer/producer of his original music through his production company.

 

Dr. Reeves, having been a pastor for 34 years and in ministry for 37 years is the developer and originator of the system of Essencology.  He began his specialized research in Essencology in the 80's  and now oversees the Reeverian Institute of for the Studie of Essencology (R.I.S.E.) Department personally.  R.I.S.E. has now been expanded to include the Reeverian Association of Essencological Counselors as well as  9 unique branches of this amazing counseling system as well as 3 practical arenas of operating and working as an Essencologists (An Instructor, A Practitioner and a Researcher)

 

He is happily married with two daughter, two son-in laws and six grandsons.  Dr. Reeves has committed himself to the empowering and mentoring of  others who are a part of the Kingdom of God and the up-building of the same.  He is the founder and Senior Pastor of End Time Apostolic Christian Holiness Church and has been pastoring  since 1988.

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To date Dr. Reeves has published 7 books and has written over 25 other books that will be released throughout 2020 and beyond.  He is consistently researching and writing on the topic of essencology in hopes of extending both his knowledge in the field and to train others in this specialized biblical method of counseling.