Leadership (MEDS)

Bishop Blackmon

Bishop Reginald Blackmon was born and raised in Chicago, Ill., where he lived until joining the U.S. Navy. After joining the U.S. Navy, he was stationed in San Diego, CA and soon after began his boxing career. During his amateur boxing career he won many fights and held several titles including the three times All Navy Super Heavy-Weight Boxing Champion, two times Armed Forces Champion and he was the 1993 Olympic Festival Gold Medalist and 1993 U.S. Bronze Medalist.

While serving in the U.S. Navy, Bishop had an encounter with God that resulted in him committing his life to God and becoming a follower of Jesus Christ.

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Pastor Yusanda Blackmon

Yusanda Blackmon is the Co-Founder of Latter Rain Missions & Training Center and Latter Rain Ministries (LRM). She currently serves as Chief Operating Officer for the organization and on the Pastoral Staff of Latter Rain Ministries -Fort Wayne (LRMFW).  Pastor Yusanda and her husband Bishop Reginald Blackmon have been married for nearly twenty-five years and they have four wonderful children. One of Pastor Yusanda’s greatest passions is to be used by God to bring healing and wholeness to individuals who are broken, with the love and compassion of Christ; the other is loving, nurturing, and growing her family. She is committed to fulfilling God’s mission for her life as a wife, mother, daughter, and servant of the Lord Most High.

Elder Mark Buchanan

Elder Mark Buchanan was born in Westmoreland Jamaica and immigrated to the United States in 1978, when he was a child. His earliest convictions and evidence of God at work in his life began at the age of 9, wherein he was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit. Afterward; a variety of events and obstacles would unfold in Mark’s life, which God would use to lead him to Latter Rain Ministries in 1999, where he has since faithfully served in various auxiliary ministries under the discipleship of Bishop Reginald Blackmon. Elder Mark believes he has a call to the body of Christ to give clarity to the ministry of helps. Elder Mark desires to see a resounding unity in the church of God and believes the key to this is found through teaching sound doctrine, genuine repentance, humility and servitude.

Minister Monika Buchanan

Serving over 18 years in ministry, Minister Monika’s involvement and experience has caused her to cultivate a deeper relationship with God, a strong love for God’s people, a passion to see “His will be done on earth”, and a desire to make disciples that will do the work of the ministry. Her desire to please God in everything is evident in her relationship with her husband of whom she has been married to for 13 years, her kids, her work ethic in ministry as well as on her job, and her care for the members of the body. Minister Monika has been an essential part of Latter Rain Missions and Training Center.  She has served in and led several departments such as: children’s ministry, W.O.O.F Pack-Dance Ministry, Praise and Worship Music Ministry, Hospitality, and Armor Bearer Ministry. She has developed, organized, and participated in “Win Our Community One Block at a Time”, an outreach that continues to impact the community today. Minister Monika’s life scripture and ultimate desire for everyone she meets and in everything that she does can be found in Matthew 5:16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”

Minister Cheryl Fierro

Our gracious Lord encountered Minister Cheryl Fierro with his saving grace at the age of seventeen at a Latter Rain Ministries (LRM) Outreach in Imperial Beach, California. With her heart to please God and Bishop Reginald and Pastor Yusanda Blackmon’s continuous discipleship, Minister Cheryl grew and served in many departments like: Maintenance, Hospitality, Children’s Ministry and Praise & Worship (where she used her love of worship through song and hymn). She joined the worship team, there the impartation of spiritual gifts including prophetic singing, continued along with training to set a powerful atmosphere, break chains of bondage and leave a legacy of true worshipers. At age twenty, Minster Cheryl became the Worship Leader and later began her training to become a Minister. After marrying she became ordained as Minister and at the age of twenty-four she trained the current worship leader of Latter Rain Ministries – Imperial Beach. She then began preparation for the LRM organization plant/expansion to Fort Wayne, Indiana where she currently serves as a Minister and Worship Leader of Latter Rain Ministries – Fort Wayne. She is the wife Daniel Fierro and mother of two with a growing family.