Pastora Amanda Colfax: Choosing Obedience, Carrying Faith Through Loss, and Stepping Into a Season of Alignment
Pastora Amanda Colfax: Choosing Obedience, Carrying Faith Through Loss, and Stepping Into a Season of Alignment
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Pastora Amanda Colfax’s story is not one of ease or instant clarity. It is a story shaped over time, through encounter, loss, surrender, and repeated decisions to trust God even when the outcome was uncertain. Her life and ministry reflect what happens when faith is not theoretical, but lived out in real moments where obedience costs something.
Raised in a Christian home, Amanda was introduced early to faith, Scripture, and church life. Yet familiarity did not equate to personal conviction. As a teenager, she encountered the power of God in a way that moved belief from tradition into experience. At a revival service, a visiting minister spoke prophetically over her and her family. For the first time, they felt the tangible presence of God together. That moment planted something deep, even though Amanda did not respond immediately. Like many young people, she wrestled with rebellion and delayed answering the call on her life.
Years later, her world shifted dramatically through tragedy. A close family member experienced a sudden and severe mental health crisis. Watching the effects of that breakdown unfold changed the way Amanda understood spiritual boundaries, personal responsibility, and the reality of unseen battles. It shaped her lifelong conviction around sobriety and her willingness to speak openly about how certain doors, once opened, can carry lasting consequences.
In that season of pain and confusion, Amanda returned to the same revival church where she had first encountered God years earlier. Though she was in college and not fully living for Him, she was deeply hungry for truth and stability. That hunger led to a defining moment on June 16, 2013, when she surrendered her life fully to Jesus Christ. From that day forward, her priorities, relationships, and direction began to change.
At the time, Amanda was in a committed relationship with her high school sweetheart, Gordon. Their love was visible and intentional, grounded in shared values and a desire to honor God. Yet after her salvation, Amanda sensed God asking her to lay everything down, including the relationship she treasured most. In obedience, she stepped away, trusting God with what she could not control. Unknown to her, Gordon was walking his own journey with God at the same time. After separate confirmations and clear direction, they were brought back together. In the summer of 2014, at just 20 years old, they were married, an act many questioned, but one rooted in prayer and trust.
That same year marked the beginning of formal ministry training. Under the leadership of Pastor Bob Harris in Albany, Oregon, Amanda and Gordon were discipled, equipped, and released into ministry. They served faithfully, learning both the responsibilities and pressures that come with leadership. But alongside ministry growth came repeated grief. Between 2015 and 2019, they lost close family members one after another, including parents, siblings, and grandparents. Each loss compounded the last, testing their faith in ways no textbook or sermon could prepare them for.
Public ministry did not insulate them from criticism. In moments when compassion was most needed, judgment often followed. Those experiences clarified a truth Amanda carries into her leadership today: religion often condemns, but real Christianity walks with people through pain.
In 2018, God opened a new chapter with the launch of Revival Church, beginning through tent crusades that eventually grew into established congregations. Locations opened in Albany and Salem, followed by Silverton. When 2020 arrived and fear swept the nation, Revival Church made a decision that would define its future. Rather than retreating, leadership chose faith, continuing worship and ministry when many shut down. That choice ushered the church into a season of growth and renewed hunger for God.
Between 2020 and 2021, Amanda and Gordon stepped into greater responsibility as their pastor transitioned into apostolic ministry. Amanda’s personal calling expanded as well. She began traveling nationally, equipping churches and witnessing healing and freedom break out wherever God sent her. In 2022, doors opened widely, from ministering alongside the Maverick City Choir to appearing on major Christian television networks. Each assignment confirmed what God had been building quietly for years.
In 2023, God redirected her focus back home. Shortly after, the loss of her spiritual covering marked one of the hardest seasons of her life. Stepping into senior leadership alongside her husband came with pain, pruning, and difficult transitions. Some people left. Trusted leaders moved on. Each departure forced a question that would shape everything that followed: walk away, or step forward.
They chose to step forward.
That decision bore fruit. In October 2025, Revival Church launched its first morning service after years of afternoon gatherings. Attendance exceeded expectations from the very first day. Within weeks, the congregation outgrew the building and relocated services to a larger venue to accommodate the growth. What once felt like loss gave way to renewal.
Today, Pastora Amanda Colfax stands in a season marked by visible growth, personally, spiritually, and within the church community. She continues to travel for itinerant ministry while preparing to launch an online mentorship for women seeking guidance, discipleship, and support as they step into their God-given assignments.
From my perspective, Amanda’s life speaks to anyone who has faced grief, delay, betrayal, or rejection and wondered whether purpose was still intact. Her story is proof that loss does not disqualify calling, and that obedience, repeated over time, creates space for God to bring clarity and direction.
She believes 2026 marks a year of alignment, healing, and forward movement, not only for her family and church, but for those willing to step out of survival mode and into strength. Her message is clear: your story is not finished, your calling is not paused, and what felt scattered is coming together.
More information about her ministry, speaking engagements, and upcoming initiatives can be found at www.amandacolfax.com.
You can follow her journey on social media at @amandacolfax and @myrevivalchurch.
Pastora Amanda Colfax’s story is not about perfection, it is about persistence. And each time she chose to rise, God met her there.
Article Written By: Dr. Victoria "Tori Tellem" Hoffman-
Owner & Founder of ToriTellem PR Associates