Meeting Ministers.
How God demonstrated His provision and faithfulness within purpose.
I was called to start a minister for which there would be a network of connected ministries and ministers across the country to share the Gospel with the forgotten. The only problem: I didn’t know anyone to call! God really showed that his hands were all over it. I started by cold-calling some campgrounds to inquire about starting a chapel onsite. For those that agreed, I then started cold-calling churches in that area. While this was beginning to work, I received the name of a traveling minister named Marshall from a member of my church family. Marshall then connected me with a retired pastor named Earl whom he has just visited. Earl was looking to continue in ministry. After I was able to share some revelation on how the words “retired” and “minister” don’t make sense together, he started making his plans to join me on my new mission. Separately, out of the blue, another minister named Greg called me to let me know that God instructed him to travel to Arizona to join a campground ministry. Wow! It only got better when I learned that he would be joined by his family and that they all do worship together. An answer to my prayer for music at our meetings! This was just the beginning of experiencing time and again that as soon as there is a need, God fills it!
Jonathan W.
It all begins.
How a weekend with brothers in Christ lead to healing and transformation!
After being told that I only had 6 months to live, the doctors were baffled by my recovery process. I found myself attending a Methodists church during this time, and it took everything I had just to walk the three blocks from my house. I wasn’t supposed to be alive, but the illness had left me weak and in need of building strength, so I took every opportunity to carry chairs or help people just to stay active. Eventually, I was sponsored to attend a Tres Dias weekend, although I had no desire to go. Nevertheless, I went. I befriended a man named Brandon, a member of Beloved Church in Lena, IL. folks from this particualr church made up most of the attendance for this event. After experiencing the love of all those who were attending and serving that weekend, and after receiving prayer for anxiety and witnessing that heaviness leave, I didn’t want to go back home! I got connected to the church from which all of these amazing men of God where from and everything went up from there. Three months later, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and it was on!
Jonathan W.