In August 2011, Jeremy Gilbert, founder of Church Underground, had a radical encounter with Jesus Christ.

At this time, Jeremy had thrown his gift of life away. By the age of 27, he had become addicted to drugs, was mentally unstable, and unable to work. He had been through multiple rehabilitation programs and was unemployed, living with his parents, and seeing several psychiatrists for substance addiction. He was diagnosed with clinical depression and prescribed several antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications for suicide prevention.

One day, he was invited to a church service, and everything changed. The week before he was invited to this church, he prayed to God, asking that God take his life away, or else he was going to end it himself. During the meeting, the pastor stopped the service and asked if anyone was suffering from addiction because God had spoken to the pastor that someone there that night needed deliverance from addiction.

Jeremy received prayer that night, and immediately the depression and suicidal thoughts were gone. Hope and joy filled his being like never before. He continued to attend that church and was filled with the Holy Spirit the following week as the believers laid hands on him and prayed. As the Holy Spirit filled him, he felt a warm feeling of love in his stomach that overflowed into prophecy and praying in tongues.

After several weeks of following Jesus, Jeremy decided to trust in the supernatural power of God for deliverance. He threw away all his medications and never returned to any psychiatrists or counseling. He was totally set free!

Soon after, another believer took Jeremy to the streets and showed him how to witness and pray for others. Jeremy was praying for the sick and witnessing miracles after only knowing Jesus for a few months. This testifies to the need for discipleship, as Jeremy had a mentor discipling him. The boldness of the Holy Spirit went with Jeremy into the streets, meeting people with love, compassion, and the good news of the kingdom of God.

Jeremy enrolled in Shiloh Bible Institute, graduating in 2015. While in Bible school, he led ministry teams into the streets for several years, praying and witnessing to people in public, with signs and wonders following. Jeremy entered pastoral ministry for a season but felt God calling him to purchase a tent and hold a revival. This tent revival gave Jeremy a sense of how powerfully God can move when we leave the building to go after the lost. Many people were saved and baptized in the Ohio River during that tent revival.

Jeremy began to travel and conduct revivals, receiving invitations from all over the world. He conducted gospel crusades in foreign nations such as Pakistan and the Philippines.

During the summer of 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when all of the churches were closing, Jeremy had a visitation from the Lord. He was visited in several dreams during the night, hearing the audible voice of God. God instructed him to change the direction of his ministry and God expressed His desire to change the direction of the church. Obeying God's voice, Jeremy shifted his full focus to making disciples rather than just holding preaching meetings. The Lord began to teach him the importance of doing life together with believers, one-on-one discipleship, and covenant relationships within the body of Christ.

God directed Jeremy to learn more about how to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry, producing disciples who are doers of the Word, not just hearers. Since that encounter, God has given Jeremy exposure to and influence from several disciple-making ministries, missionary ministries, and house church models similar to the early church we read about in the Book of Acts.

As president of the ministry “Church Underground,” Jeremy Gilbert lives in Paden City, West Virginia, running Disciple Groups, outreaches, and planting home fellowships. Church Underground has a flourishing faith community, both locally in West Virginia and online.