Apostle Hartford T. Coats Jr. met Spandirallia while attending college in Pensacola, Florida studying religion. In 1982 they were joined in Holy Matrimony along with her two children Louis and Nakitia. After moving to Dallas, Texas they became members of a local televangelist church where both completed biblical studies and received their certifications for the ministry. In March 1992, they began an outreach ministry in Dallas called “Prayers of the Righteous.” Soon they joined with yet another ministry in which Hartford served as an assistant pastor and Spandirallia worked as an administrator. They produced a radio ministry, prison outreach, intercessory prayer group, and a deliverance ministry. Through these diverse workings of the Holy Spirit many souls were saved, healed, delivered, filled with the Holy Spirit and set free.

God released them to be Pastors in which they were ordained to do this work in July 1995. Soon afterwards, a new church named “Blessed Rock of Deliverance Interdenominational Church” was established and founded by them in Lancaster, Texas with only 16 members. They labored diligently carving out the ministry by teaching, preaching, training and imparting the uncompromising word of God. They began to travel all over the USA and abroad, and during a trip to Paris, France the word of the Lord came to them and instructed them to rename the church which is presently known as “Hartspan International Ministries.”