Category: Way Ambassador

The framework of the Way Ambassador program is built upon three pillars: personal spiritual growth, reaching out to others, and living God’s love at home. Please enjoy this personal account from a Way Ambassador.

We make a positive impact on our communities. I saw this so big during our tenure as we committed to faithfully stand on the Word and the three pillars of the program.

The Way Ambassador program taught me how stepping beyond my comfort zone by working, fellowshipping, and witnessing in my community could make it available for me to share God’s Word.

Our Way Ambassador team worked in the heart of our beloved town and witnessed relentlessly and fearlessly for months! We went everywhere we could in our town! I began to see the spiritual impact build as we kept getting out. We made ourselves known at work and other places we frequented. It was no secret why we were there. Everyone quickly knew what we were all about—God and His Word. And they knew we cared.

Getting familiar with our community led us to great witnessing encounters. We would be hanging out at the mall or a restaurant, or we’d be walking around downtown, and we’d run into coworkers, new believers that were coming to fellowship, and people who were interested in making friends.

We were in our community building rapport, spiritual unity, and friendships with the people we spent our time with. It was exciting. We were known in our community for the love of God we manifested, for the Word we shared, and for the fun we had together! Our network grew, and so did our fellowship.

People were led into the new birth and had an eagerness to learn how to give, serve, and learn. And all the while, our Way Ambassador team grew in our capacity to give, love, and serve.

The Way Ambassador program showed me something I did not know I needed to see. I needed to be in my community because, with God, that’s where I could make lasting change and do what God needed me to do for His people.

We really are called to a magnificent life of service. We can make an impact and help move the Word over the world, starting by faithfully reaching out in our own communities.

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I invited into our home a woman I witnessed to so she could view one of our ministry’s teachings. The plan was to then register her for the Power for Abundant Living Today class.

I prayed before she arrived, “God, I expect her to register, but I want more than that. Show me something Ephesians 3:20-style!” During the teaching she showed no response and at times got fidgety. The lack of response could have been perceived in a negative light. But I continued to claim Ephesians 3:20.

After the teaching, she was silent. I was silent…wait for it…then she opened up with feedback that was beyond my expectations—all from a woman who is typically on the quiet side. I no sooner began to read the benefits listed on the class registration card, when she grabbed it from my hands, reached for the pen, and signed it.

God confirmed with me that I can get bolder with my requests of Him. I’d like to think that on that day, I actually saw Him smile and say, “OK, kiddo, you’re getting this figured out.” I see more and more that I can’t put God in a box and predetermine how He is going to be able to work in someone’s heart. That’s HIS job, not mine. I just keep myself available to point them in the right direction.

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One night, my team member and I went to a karaoke bar to speak God’s Word. The first woman we spoke to was interested in talking, but after a while, I could see that she did not have any hunger for the Word and was simply wanting to have a discussion from an intellectual point of view. The conversation became more of a mocking interrogation. She implied that we shouldn’t be doing what we were doing, and that no one would be receptive to us. I was discouraged and wanted to leave but decided to stay and find someone else to talk to.

My team member and I moved to the bar and sat next to a man who was sitting alone, and we ended up having a wonderful conversation with him. He opened up about the fears he felt while deployed overseas, so I shared with him about our ministry’s theme of Live Fearlessly! and Joshua 1:9. I pointed out that the context of the verse was that Joshua was going to go to battle. God was telling Joshua that he didn’t need to fear because God was there with him. I then encouraged him that wherever he is, God is there with him. He later shared that he had been looking for a church in the area, and he gladly accepted our invitation to fellowship. He came to fellowship two days later and got very blessed. And he took the Foundational Class!

This was a wonderful lesson in perseverance. When we speak the Word, people will respond in different ways. No matter how people respond, we can’t let it discourage us from continuing to speak the Word to others. After all, it is our right and responsibility to speak the truth in love!

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As a Way Ambassador, I learned that my life has great purpose. I saw that it is God’s heart for me to know Him personally, and that together, we can show others His heart for them as well. One way I saw this is when God worked in my teammates and me to go to a certain store one evening. While we looked for people to speak the Word to, one lady caught my eye. She wore a hoodie that had one big word on it: Pray. I walked up to her and told her how much I appreciated her hoodie, because it was a great reminder to go to God with the things on my heart. I asked if we could pray for her, and she said yes. She was going through a difficult family situation and felt very alone. We prayed for her, and we thanked God for how He is always there for her and He would never leave nor forsake her. She was comforted by this, she thanked us, and we went our separate ways.

Later, at the same store, we again ran into this woman! She stopped to talk with us more and said that she always loves when God sends reminders, big or small, her way to reassure her that He is there, He loves her, and He will always take care of her. She was truly grateful and felt great assurance that God would continue to be the One to always meet her needs, even in her current situation. I was thankful to be at the right place at the right time with my teammate and with God. God gives us the opportunity to be heart menders with Him as we believe to love those He brings us to every day.

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During my tenure as a Way Ambassador, I developed my ability to trust in God. I’ll admit, I’m analytical and a classic overthinker. When making decisions, I like to think through all the options thoroughly and try to optimize to find the best solution. Thinking things through is good to a degree, but too much analysis can sometimes get in the way. At the end of the day, no amount of thinking on my end can beat God’s solution to a situation.

One area in which I learned to trust God more was follow-up and undershepherding. During my tenure, I acquired many contacts, and there was simply not time to reach out to all of them on a consistent basis during this fast-paced program. Most of the contacts tended to fizzle out, and sometimes it was hard to tell if people were hungry for the Word. But God always knows who’s hungry! I had to learn not to stress about inviting every person to every event or trying to send the perfect text. I can plant and I can water, but ultimately, it’s God Who gives the increase (I Corinthians 3:6).

Near the beginning of the tenure, I made friends with a coworker who expressed a desire to come to our fellowship to learn more about the Bible. She visited our fellowship a couple of times and seemed to enjoy them. However, she stopped coming to fellowship after the first couple of visits. Since she switched jobs, I didn’t see her at work anymore, but I continued to reach out. After many weeks of inviting her to various fellowships and events and visiting her a couple times at her home, I eventually made the choice to focus less time on texting her to make more time for the people who did show spiritual hunger.

One day, I had the thought to reach out to her to ask if we could get together. We made plans for her and her husband to come over the following Sunday after their church. That Sunday morning, she texted me asking if she and her husband could come to fellowship. That weekend happened to be when another team member’s family was visiting, including their four young children. It was also the time that she and her husband broke the news to us that they were having a baby!

The timing of everything could not have been more perfect. My friend and her husband instantly bonded with the visiting family and got to talk about becoming parents and how sweet parenting can be when you have God and the household. It was such a sweet time together! Only God could have made that connection.

Meanwhile, another woman our team witnessed to was unresponsive for the first month. One day, God worked in me to reach out to her to ask how she was doing. She responded that she was going through a lot. The very next day, one of our teammates ran into her at the park, and he urged her to go to fellowship. We invited her to a café Bible study, which she thoroughly enjoyed, then she came to her first fellowship the very next day and loved it! After just a couple of weeks, she was sitting in her first Foundational Class. She shared that she had been searching for years for someone to teach her how to understand the Bible, and finally she was being taught. It’s so cool how God worked in the situation to make sure this spiritually hungry woman could get the Word.

I feel so free now knowing that I don’t have to twist myself into knots to bring people the Word. God wants people to be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of the truth (I Timothy 2:4). So, I don’t have to figure this out on my own; I have God as my partner. If someone is hungry for the Word, God can work in me, the person, and/or the situation to make sure that person gets what they need. I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to grow in my partnership with God during the program. I can accomplish so much more for God when I trust Him and let Him do the heavy lifting!

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For Way Ambassador, I took a job at a popular restaurant as a server. When I got the job, I wrote down twelve goals I wanted to see God help me accomplish at work over the course of the program. One of those goals was for Him to exceed my expectations. This one, along with the rest of the twelve, got checked off! I especially saw this exceeding of expectations with a particular goal: to pray with at least seven of the tables I served. As I worked “heartily, as to the Lord” and sought after accomplishing this goal, God provided the open doors, and I prayed with more than twelve tables (not including prayers with coworkers)!

There is one prayer that stands out to me. There was a couple that sat at one of my tables that was very rude, complaining from the minute they walked in the restaurant. When I came to introduce myself, they complained to me about a number of things before I could even ask what they would like to drink! They did apologize later and briefly mentioned that it had been a difficult day. I kept note of this and realized that there was something deeper than just what I saw on the surface—it was spiritual, and I made up my mind that at the end of their meal, I would pray for them. If I had been focused on the five senses, I would have gotten very upset and bothered throughout their stay, but seeing the situation spiritually helped me stay loving, long-suffering, and kind.

When dropping off their check, I asked for their names and offered to pray. They grudgingly answered and accepted the offer. Once I started praying, the lady started crying and told me all that was going on after I was done. She had health issues, was having trouble walking, her friend was battling cancer, and much more. The adversary, the Devil, was stealing, killing, and destroying in their life. He wanted them trapped in the five senses and blinded to the spiritually abundant life God has made available. But God worked in me to give them the opportunity to trust in Him and live a more than abundant life.

I may never see them again, but only God knows the impact my decision to pray with them had on their lives. It was also a witness to the people at the table right next to them that I was serving! They asked about the situation, and it opened the door for me to talk about our ministry and the Way Ambassador program!

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The framework of the Ambassadors of the Way Outreach Program includes reaching out to others in the community. Enjoy these outreach sharings from recent Way Ambassadors.

Witnessing Is So Much Fun

I have really grown to enjoy witnessing. I have seen God work in me, as I was in the right place at the right time, from running into a smoking building, to catching a man before he fell down an escalator. To me, witnessing is the epitome of walking by the spirit, and it is so much fun. I find being in the area, peacefully speaking in tongues, and being on the lookout for needs opens the doors wide open for God to direct me. I stay in contact with God, and He directs me to who I need to talk to. This is much improved from the old me who would find himself actively making excuses as to why he couldn’t go out and talk to people.

We Were in the Right Place at the Right Time

During my Way Ambassador tenure, I think some of my most memorable outreach times were when I was feeling discouraged or extra tired, when I thought something like, Is this what we need to be doing right now? or even, Some extra downtime sounds pretty nice. But, God called us to be faithful, and faithful I was going to be!

The first time I had a moment like this was at the very beginning of our tenure. One of my teammates and I had decided to visit the local gyms to check out the environment and pricing at each of them, believing to share the Word with people along the way. After the first one, however, I was wondering if it was truly the best use of our outreach time. My teammate encouraged me, we prayed together for God to show us what we needed to do, and we both decided to continue. I looked on my phone for another gym and found one that looked like it had a Bible-based poster in one of the photos! We quickly agreed to go there next, and got a tour from a super sweet girl who worked there. In that time, we were able to explain how we had just moved there for a Christian outreach program, and she got SO excited! She told us that she had very recently prayed about more direction in her life and had been discouraged herself. We were able to inspire and encourage her more in her own walk with God. We were in the right place at the right time, and we were able to get encouraged by that and this young woman as well!

I Saw an Open Door

While at work one day with a manager I had been sharing the Word with since I arrived in our city, he mentioned he was free after work. He had been asking a lot about speaking in tongues, and I saw this as an open door. I asked if he wanted to meet after work so we could lead him into speaking in tongues. He eagerly agreed. An hour and a half later, we were in the public library leading him into manifesting power from on high. HE SPOKE IN TONGUES! The longing in his heart was fulfilled, and his joy was palpable.

Being able to grow in my knowledge of God’s Word, trust in Him, and have meekness to follow instructions have opened great doors of blessings throughout the program.

The framework of the Ambassadors of the Way Outreach Program includes participating in the following each day: quality time in the Word, time in prayer, fellowship with like-minded believers, and reaching out to others in the local community.

Before I was a Way Ambassador, I thought I knew how to study the Word. I got in my self-prescribed ten to fifteen minutes a day reading the Epistles or a short article from our ministry’s website. I studied the Word first in my day because I knew life would be harder if I didn’t. I look back on it now, and I see that I really didn’t know how to equip myself spiritually; I only knew enough to keep myself from caving under life’s pressures. Now, I know how to prevail against them.

At the program’s outset, thirty minutes of time in the Word felt like a lot to fill. It doesn’t feel that way anymore. My once “morning obligation” turned into the thing I seek out in the quiet moments between outreach and work, work and sleep, sleep and outreach. It’s like getting a pep talk from God. It’s more relaxing than sleep, more energizing than coffee, and more comforting than a pile of warm laundry. It is the refuge from the storms of life.

God made it clearer to me than ever that the depths of our hearts are no secret to Him. He showed me answers, both to questions I knew I had, and questions I didn’t even know to ask. I started formulating deeper questions as my study time and life experiences revealed gaps in my understanding and kept track of them in a journal. As my questions piled high, God worked in fellowship meetings, class sessions, my peers, my leadership, and my personal study time for the answers to be revealed at lightning speed. All I was seeking would’ve taken years to achieve without God multiplying my efforts. Instead, it took weeks or even days for some answers.

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I Didn’t Hesitate to Come to Fellowship

Our Way Ambassador team witnessed to a man who immediately began faithfully attending home fellowship along with his wife and daughter. He received the Word with meekness and began to make decisions according to the Word in his marriage, in the upbringing of his daughter, and in his business. He also witnessed to two friends who began attending home fellowship. One of these friends commented, “My friend was a person full of fear, shy, and of few words. Now I see a change in him; I see him happy and speaking confidently. I want to walk like him. That’s why I didn’t hesitate to come to fellowship when he invited me.” This couple along with their two friends were in our Foundational Class.

Every Day There Is Light

A new person in our Way Ambassador fellowship shared this: “I have never heard of this church, I only know that today I received the Word of salvation, and every day there is light that shines in my spiritual eyes. I say that I am very grateful to God, to this church of The Way that through the Ambassadors of the Way, I received the Word. It was hard for me to read the Bible. Today I don’t go to bed without reading the Bible. I’m very grateful.”

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I had been dealing with a three-week-long headache (I have since been healed—thank God). Nevertheless, sometimes the pain prevented me from going out witnessing. I was taking medicine to try and get rid of the pain, staying hydrated, everything, but the headache persisted. On this particular day, I still had the throbbing pain, but I did not want to stay in bed or rest, I wanted to do what I had been sent here to do—speak the Word. So, pushing through the pain, I read the Word, prayed, got dressed, and started the day.

My Way Ambassador teammate and I needed to run some errands before connecting with some other team members to do some outreach. We went across town to drop off some items for a neighbor, came back to the other side of town, got gas for my car, then went to a coffee shop to work on a few things. We finally finished our errands and now, at almost noon, we were finally ready to do outreach.

We ventured to the shopping center across the street and prayed in the car for open doors to speak the Word. Three large stores were in front of us, and we agreed to start in the first large department store. Walking toward that store, we thought about starting at the store next door instead. We stood for a minute between the two stores and decided to stick to our original plan and go into the first store.

We did a slow lap through the store and found lots of items, but not a lot of people. We said hello to a few people during our lap through the store, but no open doors to really speak the Word. We started heading toward the exit to go to the second store, when I had the thought to look at one last area we had not been to. We walked over to that section, and around the corner was a young lady with various pink-colored items in her shopping cart. I immediately commented on her pink items, stating it was my favorite color as well! Her eyes lit up, and a forty-minute conversation began! We connected on many topics, from favorite colors, to college stories, books, TV shows and movies, what we were doing in the area, and shared about the Word.

She stated that her sister was meeting her at the store, and to our surprise when her sister arrived, we found out they were twins! Unfortunately, my teammate and I had to leave, but we exchanged numbers with both ladies and invited them to join our team to see a movie that Sunday. They happily said yes to our invitation. Right before we left, the one sister I started the conversation with, looked at her twin and said, “Look, Sis, friends! Just like we prayed for!” My teammate and I exchanged an excited look and we exclaimed that we, too, had been praying for friends. We said goodbye and were walking to the car when I said to my teammate, “Look at that, two for the price of one!” We laughed and were so blessed with how the day went. We both marveled how if one thing had gone differently that day, we wouldn’t have run into those two wonderful ladies.

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