Aaron and Amanda Rule of Fight The Darkness Ministires
BIO
Fight the Darkness Ministries is out to bring Christ’s light to anyone in the darkness of addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts. With a heart for those who have been bullied, abused, and trafficked, Aaron and Amanda Rule both bring powerful personal testimonies to anyone who hear them speak at a concert or event.
“We both have had experience and personal battles with horrible things,” Aaron Rule says, referencing their individual journeys through depression, suicide attempts, self-harm, addiction, bullying, and abuse. “God saved us, so we can save others by bringing them to Jesus.”
Their stories are powerful enough to have landed them on stages shared with bands like Red, Disciple, Fireflight, Seventh Day Slumber, Decyfer Down, and dozens more. They’ve been part of major festivals like Kingdom Come Festival, Pit Fest, Ignite Festival and Jesus Fest, bringing their outreach to thousands of people in the states surrounding their native Ohio. That building success comes from commitment to an unconventional life calling.
“I started the ministry in 2013 after a devastating attempt of going to college to become a youth pastor,” founder Aaron Rule explains. When Aaron first enrolled in college, he disclosed his ADD and ADHD diagnoses, and was ensured he’d be granted accommodations.
Instead, after just two months, the school informed him he’d never succeed.
“That drove me into a really dark depression,” Aaron admits. “I felt as if I wouldn’t ever be able to do what God placed me here on earth to do.”
But that was far from the end of his story. The speaker recalls, “I am so dedicated to helping to save as many people as I can. I want to pull them out of the darkness trying to consume them.”
When he started dating Amanda, her own story instantly compelled her to join the ministry.
“I have personal experience of surviving a lot of what we aim to help others conquer in their lives,” Amanda shares. “Having personal experience helps the ones in need to be able to fully open up to me, because I understand what it feels like to walk in their shoes.”
When they speak at concerts and festivals, the pair has found that those with similar stories immediately connect. From stories of listeners choosing not to take their life to others joyfully giving their life to Jesus, Aaron and Amanda have witnessed God move through their faithful response to minister.
Taking it to the next level, they also partner with and advocate for nonprofits who are serving the same hurting people Fight the Darkness is so passionate about. Currently, they are partnered with Holt International.
Fight the Darkness is available to speak at events nationwide.
Aaron’s Testimony:
I want to share with you my story of what I dealt with in my life. I accepted Christ in my life my freshman year in high school at miracle camp in Lawton, Michigan. All 4 years of high school, bullying tore me apart from the inside out. Bullies broke me mentally and physically. Throughout high school, my worst enemy was my locker, and it wasn’t because I could not remember my combination. The true reason why I hate lockers was because people would push me into them and laugh at me. But being thrown in lockers was not the only way I was abused. There was one time there was a piece of blacktop thrown at me my freshman year in highschool. The kid that threw the piece of black top at me laughed as I bled. It was inches from my temple and killing me. I suffer from a speech impediment and have headaches a lot. I also was tripped my sophomore year in high school and I fractured my right arm and hurt my right knee badly. My junior year I had scope surgery to repair my knee. I had complications from the surgery where my knee swelled so badly where the doctors thought I was going to lose my right leg, but luckily they got the swelling down in time. This both physically and mentally hurt me. So my life throughout high school was not easy nor fun, so I tried to come up with a solution to my problem, my problem called life. I was going to take a large amount of pain killers to commit suicide. But before I took the pain killers, I called my friend Kristen and she talked me out of doing it. I thank her for answering when I called because I would not be here right now if she didn’t. Through all these things that happened to me I felt Christ protecting me.
Amanda's Testimony
I may only be 31, but I’ve survived and overcome more than most could ever imagine. I’ve been a victim, an addict, an alcoholic, a musician, a soldier, a nurse’s aide, a patient, and, most importantly, a truly born-again Christian.
This is how my story begins:
Let’s skip over my younger years and start when I was a teenager. At the age of 13, I found myself at my fifth school. I was a new teenager, but I had already lived through more than most people could ever fathom. From a young age, I was heavily bullied and became the victim of crimes that no child should endure. The pain I experienced led me down a dark path of self-mutilation—my arms, wrists, and thighs were covered in scars from cutting myself in an attempt to numb the emotional pain. I also struggled with an eating disorder, starving myself, wishing I could disappear altogether.
There were countless times I found myself in the ER—due to overdoses, malnutrition, drunkenness, and passing out from the weight of it all. I endured so much trauma in my childhood that it left deep, deep wounds. But through it all, I survived by the grace and protection of God, His hand guiding me through the darkness.
The scars on my body are reminders of my past, but they also serve as proof of God's incredible healing. They’re not just marks of pain—they are testimonies of His love, His restoration, and His ability to bring beauty from brokenness. My life is like a jigsaw puzzle—each piece has a story, each piece has been shaped by both hardship and healing.
Then, on June 1, 2018, I had a life-altering fall. I tumbled down 15 wooden basement stairs, landing headfirst on a concrete floor. The impact shattered the front of my skull and my eye sockets, and I was plunged into a coma with less than a 10% chance of waking up.
Incredibly, I did wake up—but the journey was far from over. Everything traumatic that happened from 2018 to 2019 came in threes:
3-month coma
3 ventilators
3 craniotomies
And I died 3 times—twice during emergency surgery. I was dead for over five minutes.
And how many days was Jesus dead? Three. He was dead for three days.
I have baffled every doctor, specialist, and surgeon who’s ever treated me. Yet through all the trauma, I kept smiling. They kept trying to psychoanalyze me, but eventually, they realized that I don’t dwell on negativity. I don’t get angry or upset. Some of us—though we’re a small group—simply refuse to let the hard things win.
I’ve even signed legal documents allowing some of my doctors to use my story to inspire and motivate other patients. It’s amazing to think that, even when I’m not in the same room, God is using my life to change others.
Since waking up, God has transformed me in ways I can’t even put into words. I am a walking miracle—literally born again. I was saved to save others, healed to help heal others. I am living proof that nothing is impossible for God.
I can shout the name of Jesus because He brought me back to life.