About Dr. Michelle Corral
Chesed International Charity is the humanitarian outreach founded and directed by Dr. Michelle Corral.
Between October 2025 and August 2026, Dr. Michelle Corral published 32 Bible teaching videos, including Shorts and long-form videos, that each exceeded one million views, generating over 64,954,366 views from those videos alone. Her Bible teaching continues to reach a global audience, with total views increasing beyond 76,374,144 and additional videos consistently achieving high engagement.
Dr. Michelle Corral, Founder and Director of Breath of the Spirit International Ministries, is an American Bible teacher, preacher, international broadcaster, and globally recognized humanitarian with over 47 years of ministry. Her YouTube channel features continuous Bible teaching and preaching, reaching over 1,510,000 subscribers globally. She has trained leaders in more than 52 nations and, from 2023 to 2026, sponsored and hosted the “Fire and Anointing Pastors Conference” for over 10,800 pastors across seven East African nations, providing them with transportation, food, and lodging. She hosts the weekly telecast The Prophetic Word, broadcast globally on GOD TV, Impact Christian Television Network, The Word Network, and It’s Supernatural, while her weekly podcast Day of Destiny is featured on Charisma, iTunes, and Spotify. Since 1991, her other television programs have included Walking in the Anointing, Christo Nuestro Sanador, and God’s Healing Love to the Philippines with Dr. Michelle Corral. Her broadcasts have reached the United States, Central America, Latin America, the Philippines, the Middle East, and Arabic-speaking nations through CTN, Trinity Broadcasting Network, KDOC-TV Los Angeles, KSCI Channel 18, GMA 7 in the Philippines, and TBN Arabic/The Healing Channel. Dr. Corral is also the author of several books, including her most recent, Secrets of the Anointing (Destiny Image). Born again in 1971 at Melodyland Christian Center, she later trained at Melodyland School of Theology and was personally mentored by staff members of Kathryn Kuhlman. Her early vision led to international conferences in the 1990s, televised on TBN, uniting Christian leaders worldwide through The West Coast Conference on the Holy Spirit and Christian Unity. Her ministry has been recognized by Kenneth E. Hagin, Pastor Benny Hinn, Demos Shakarian, Dr. Vinson Synan, Dr. Oral Roberts, Dr. Paul Crouch, and Dr. Jan Crouch. She has also ministered to global heads of state and public officials, including former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, cabinet members of the late President Anwar Sadat, the former mayor of Bethlehem, and first ladies and officials from South Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, and Sierra Leone. Through Chesed Hope for Humanity, the humanitarian arm of Breath of the Spirit International Ministries, she has established orphan homes, international daily feeding programs, sewing schools in Pakistan and India, housing for vulnerable children in the Philippines, water wells in Africa, discipleship and feeding programs in India, education for marginalized children, homes for abandoned elderly people, and medical, dental, and eye clinics in impoverished regions. This work includes a home for street children in Davao, Philippines; support for the Nazir Christian Home for Girls in Cairo, Egypt; and weekly aid to 500 families in the UNHCR refugee camps of Bidi Bidi and Imvepi in Northern Uganda. On Friday, January 16, 2026, Dr. Michelle Corral received the Morris Cerullo Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award at the Legacy International Center in San Diego, California, during the 55th Annual Morris Cerullo World Evangelism Conference. The award recognized her nearly five decades of global ministry, leadership in teaching on the Holy Spirit, and extensive humanitarian outreach to vulnerable communities worldwide. Her additional awards include the Southern California Motion Picture Council Bronze Award for Humanitarian Service, the Angel Award for Outstanding Christian Telecast, the Gospel Preacher’s Award, and humanitarian recognitions from leaders in Sierra Leone (2009), Burundi (2012), Zambia (2013), and Uganda (2019, 2023, 2024, and 2025). President Museveni of Uganda has personally welcomed and commended her work, calling her “a true friend of Africa and Uganda.” Today, as Director of Breath of the Spirit Miracle Center, her passion remains to impart fire, anointing, prophetic purpose, and the legacy of the great generals of faith to the next generation.
Dr. Corral’s beautiful mother, Dr. Joanne Petronella, pictured with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, circa 1985.
Dr. Michelle Corral with her mother, Dr. Joanne Petronella, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta in Bombay—now Mumbai—India, circa 1983.
Dr. Corral and her husband, the Rev. Manuel Corral, pictured with Mother Teresa in Bombay—now Mumbai—India, circa 1986.
Some of the awards Dr. Corral has graciously received in her 47 years of ministry include:
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the Morris Cerullo Legacy International Center — January 2026
- The Southern California Motion Picture Council Bronze Award for Humanitarian Service
- The Angel Award for Outstanding Christian Telecast
- The Gospel Preacher’s Award
- Honorary Doctorate from Next Dimensions University
- Lifetime Achievement Award from Next Dimensions University
- Master Teacher of Hebrew and Greek from Next Dimensions University
- Various humanitarian awards and recognitions from Sierra Leone, Zambia, Burundi, and Uganda