Rev. Jesse E. [Gene ] Wiseman was born in a small coal mining town in West Virginia. He often jokes that he comes from a long line of thieves and preachers, but truly, he does have a Godly heritage, with a mother and grandparents who demonstrated the power of God and prophetic gifting as though they were living right in the book of Acts.
 
As a young boy he always preferred to stay in the sanctuary with the adults rather than go to the classes for his age group because “that was where things were happening!’. He wanted to be around the “move of the Spirit”.  Bro. Wiseman feels privileged to have inherited such a spiritual legacy, and to have been able to sit as a child under the anointing of powerful ministers such as his mother, Irene Leadingham Wiseman; his grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. R.E. Leadingham; Rev. T.L. Lowery; Rev. A. A. Allen and especially Rev. H. Richard Hall, under whom he was eventually ordained into ministry.
 
In his twenties, Bro. Wiseman felt the call of God upon his life to preach the Gospel. He started in the ministry preaching on courthouse lawns, in town parks and on street corners. There were times that he would even park his car in the middle of a crowded parking lot, jump up on the roof of the car and preach at the top of his lungs! Bro. Wiseman wasn’t waiting for platforms and microphones, he just preached the Gospel wherever and whenever he could. As he preached, Sis. Wiseman would walk amongst the public, pointing to him and saying, “Listen to that man, he has something important to say!”
 
 In the early 1980’s Bro. and Sis. Wiseman served as  pastors of a church in Daytona Beach, Florida where Catholics, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Charismatics and even a few Pentecostals were knit together into a church family. They eventually moved back to North Carolina, the place where they had met and married, and focused their ministry efforts on evangelism and missions.
 
Bro. and Sis. Wiseman founded Miracle Missionary outreach, a ministry that has reached all around the world. They have held crusades in the islands of the Bahamas, and in Jamaica, Canada, Russia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Ghana, England, Scotland and in Colombia, South America, preaching the Gospel with signs following, feeding and clothing the poor and helping to support resident pastors and missionaries. Bro. Wiseman has a heart for all people of all races, and exemplifies “becoming all things to all men” for when he ministers to the Hispanics, they wonder if he isn’t of Spanish descent, yet when he ministers to the Africans they feel he’s just one of them!
 
The gifts of the Spirit operate freely through Bro. Wiseman.  Many testimonies have been shared with us of the works that God has done through this ministry.  We have seen God perform many miracles over the years especially in the overseas crusades.  Blind eyes have been opened, deaf ears have been opened and the mute have learned to speak!  For every meeting Bro. Wiseman always says, “Come expecting a miracle!”
 
Bro. Gene and Sis. Lorene, his partner for forty-four years, reside in Cleveland, Tennessee.  They have four children and eight grandchildren. The legacy continues………