Rick Stoker is the founder and Senior Pastor of First Fruit Ministries.  He develops the Ministry vision of programs and services to be implemented by staff.  Lee Anna Stoker is the Executive Director of First Fruit Ministries. She provides leadership for all of First Fruit’s staff, fundraising, financial management, and community involvement.

Rick spends part of his time working directly with gangs to clear a path to recovery for addicted women and men working in the sex industry. This is the only local outreach of its kind to gangs and those in prostitution. Lee Anna works with residents of Wilmington Dream Center to assist homeless women achieve personal freedom and permanent housing.

Rick and Lee Anna are strong local advocates for the rights and well-being of homeless and very-low income people.  They are persuasive public speakers and active among Wilmington’s political and community leadership.

Rick has been a mime for over twenty years; he is a member of the international mime guild with numerous registered gestures.  He founded over forty mime troupes from Russia to Haiti.  Rick was a missionary in Haiti for three years operating a medical clinic in the rural communities, planting churches and raising local pastors. He founded a successful business, Stoker Medical Innovations, supplying orthopedic implants and consulting services to orthopedic surgeons.  Rick is also a professional fisherman. 

Lee Anna has a degree in Community Organizing and Development from Evergreen State College.  She has worked as a labor union organizer, lived as a translator in the Peruvian Andes, and plays percussion in a band. After a radical salvation at 24 she left everything and went in to full-time ministry, creating the organizational home for Rick’s vision to restore the streets.  She was ordained as a minister in 2001.

Rick and Lee Anna currently spend their time leading First Fruit Ministries and traveling nationally and internationally establishing schools for prophetic ministry, mentoring, and helping others minister to the poor and homeless.  Rick and Lee Anna live in Wilmington, North Carolina, with their daughter Sophia.