A thousand miles start with one step and so did Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries. PHD Ministries is a Holy Bible believing ministry which was founded by Prophet Walter Magaya in 2012. As the name suggests, the ministry carries out healing, deliverance and prophecy leaving an individual free from spiritual, physical and economic bondage. The PHD Ministries had 70 congregants at its inception in 2012 and by September 2013 it had a gathering of around 7 500, a number which spiralled to around 90 000 at the time of going to press in 2014.