Way Ambassadors Make an Impact in Their Communities

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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My Heart Is Full of Thankfulness

Since I was a child, I knew about God and loved Him, but in my mind He was so imposing that I felt my relationship with Him was distant. He was busy solving bigger problems than the ones I had. I was taught that God ruled with a heavy hand, and I wanted to go to heaven, so my actions and conduct were fear based. Whenever I felt that I had sinned, I was anxious and uncertain about attaining a place to be with God.

The knowledge of the accuracy and rightly divided Word of God that I learned from all the classes that The Way Ministry avails to those who hunger and thirst after righteousness set me on the right path to know my heavenly Father’s true heart for me and my life. To know that He loves me, forgives me readily, and cares for every detail of my life, whether big or small matters, brings me great peace and the delight of a close and personal relationship. I also know without a doubt that Christ will return for me.

I have learned about and experienced God’s graciousness, His tender mercy, His exceeding great and precious promises coming into fruition in my life as I believe His Word. I know of His boundless love for me, and that to love Him back is to manifest that love in service to the family of God and to share His excellent Word with others.

My heart is full of thankfulness for the integrity of the Word that The Way International has cultivated and protected throughout the years so that we can enjoy living His Word and entrust it to future generations to endure until the return of Christ.

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A Way Ambassador’s Personal Spiritual Growth

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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Class Enables Students to Understand God and the Bible

The Catalyst for My Love for God Today

Taking the Foundational Class as a college student provided me with peace that most of my classmates did not have. In fact, the university encouraged students to be overworked. If you weren’t talking about how stressed you were, you supposedly weren’t working hard enough. I decided to put God first during my schooling and attended home fellowship, and my life was all the better for it. I even told my mom, and she and my brother took the Foundational Class a couple of years later! The Foundational Class made an everlasting impression on me and was the catalyst for my love for God today.

Approaching Problems with God at My Side

I was a young mother managing an apartment complex and getting more and more frustrated with my life. One day I asked God out loud, “What is this world all about?” Right after asking God this question, I decided to visit another young mother in the complex. I had a strong thought that she had something I needed. As we visited, she told me she and her husband had just finished a Bible class. She gave me a book, The Bible Tells Me So, to read. After I finished that book, she gave me another book she had received in this class. As I read those books, I realized I wanted to know more and asked about attending a fellowship. Through fellowships, I met people who helped me understand the spiritual competition.

I took the class my friend had taken and gained spiritual understanding and the confidence I needed to approach problems with God at my side. Since that time, every class and every ministry event I’ve attended has allowed me to grow in my believing and has made me stronger for my family. Now I know what this world is about and can share it with others.

Proving God Saved My Life

Shortly after my first Foundational Class ended, I found myself in a situation where proving God literally saved my life. While considering options to resolve the situation, I decided to put the Word I’d learned to the test with the following confessions: “God, I know this situation isn’t Your will. God, I know You are Light and in You is no darkness. God, I know Your will is for me to be healed. God, I know that Your Word is truth whether anyone in the room believes it or not.” These were simple confessions that, prior to taking the class, I would never have had the confidence (or even the thought) to confess. In instant and miraculous ways, God healed broken bones, moved mountains, and flooded my thoughts with peace. This is the peace that “passeth all understanding,” as God’s Word promises. The Word became a living reality for me and gave me the strength and peace I needed to overcome dangerous obstacles and emerge both safe and victorious.

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A Way Ambassador Learns a Wonderful Lesson in Perseverance

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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Keep Praying and Stay Peaceful

Exceeding Greatness of God’s Power

I have a particular day in my life that is engraved in my memory. I was a freshman in high school. The day was just like any other day. I got up, got ready, and walked to school. Except for this time, I didn’t make it to school because I was hit by a car in an intersection where that car ran a red light.

Immediately after this event, on the way to the hospital, and after arriving there, I was surrounded by believers praying and believing for my health and well-being. God answered their prayers and mine, as I only sustained one broken bone.

Romans 8:28:
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

God not only protected and healed me, but He also worked in the situation so that the insurance company gave us enough money that my schooling was not a financial problem!

Oh, how mighty our God will be for us and how small our problems really are in comparison to His exceeding power!

God Came Through with Flying Colors

I had been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease and had to undergo some expensive treatment. One treatment I had to take was done every two weeks for six months. When we got the bill, we saw that after the insurance company paid their part of the bill, we still had a very large amount to pay. There was no way we could afford to pay that amount of money. So my husband and I prayed. Then we took believing action and contacted different foundations and organizations for financial help.

We kept praying and stayed peaceful knowing that God would help us in this situation just like He had in the past when we were faced with challenging situations. We kept trusting in Him to supply.

One day we received a letter we did not expect with a check for $5,000. Then a few days later we received another letter, this time from one of the foundations we had written to for help. This letter said that the foundation would cover all the expenses we had incurred from the treatment.

What a tremendous blessing and comfort for us. God came through with flying colors. We got the bills paid off without going into debt and on top of that, I was healed. I am so thankful for what I have learned in this ministry that has allowed me to claim God’s promises in my life and see the victory He has had in store for me.

God’s Healing of a Young Marine

When I was on active duty in the Marine Corps, I had a new, young Marine check in to work at my shop. I found out that I didn’t have the official order for his job, so I asked our monitor at the Marine Corps headquarters why they sent him to me. I was told that he was sent to me because he was getting a medical discharge because the doctors couldn’t figure out how to treat him from a blood ailment. My shop was the closest one to where they would process him out of service.

When I brought him into my office to get to know him, I told him that my wife and I coordinated a Bible fellowship, and that he could be healed, even if the doctors couldn’t help him. He was interested and came to fellowship and took our ministry’s Foundational Class.

On the day he was to go for his final physical, I knew it was time to minister healing to him, so I did. When he was examined, the doctors were amazed at what they found. They said, “We didn’t know exactly what was wrong or how to treat it, but some way you are healed.”

He was allowed to stay in the Marine Corps and was able to finish a twenty-year career and retire at a senior officer’s rank. Thank God.

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Way Ambassadors Mend Hearts

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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God’s Word Believed Brings Powerful Results

I Was Abundantly Blessed in Every Way!

As I prepared for college, many thoughts flooded my mind. Where would I live? Where would I work? How would I afford it?

At times I was tempted to become anxious as I contemplated all of these things. Instead, every time I noticed myself becoming anxious, I would recite Philippians 4:6: “Be careful [anxious] for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” I did not allow the circumstances of the world to affect my believing heart. With determined effort, I continued to confess God’s Word, pray, speak in tongues, and keep my trust in Him.

When looking for a school to attend, the number one priority I had was that there was a home fellowship nearby. I had learned how important it was to keep God first in my life and I had learned His will for us to function together in the Body of Christ. I knew that being in an area where I could serve in the fellowship and also have the support of believers was the best place for me to be. I found and applied to a school that had a distinguished, competitive program for my area of study, and a home fellowship was less than ten minutes away!

As I continued moving forward on the Word I knew, making my requests known, I thanked God for how He was meeting, and would continue to meet, my every need. I was abundantly blessed in every way! I found a wonderful apartment and roommates and was even provided a great job.

Another goal I had for my time in college was to graduate debt-free. My parents and I were like-minded on this goal. We discussed the budget and believed together faithfully each semester for this need to be met. I applied for scholarships, and found ways to decrease my other expenses for school (books, supplies, etc.) and faithfully operated the prosperity principle of giving and receiving. My home fellowship was also believing with me and encouraging me along the way. When the circumstances seemed bleak, I was lovingly reminded by my family and my brothers and sisters in Christ of God’s promise to meet my every need (Philippians 4:19). That helped me continue to do my part, and I knew God would do the rest.

I am happy to announce that I graduated from college debt-free! This was a huge victory and built my trust in God exponentially. It is because of the Word that I learned in this ministry that I was able to have great success in this endeavor; because without it, I would not have known how to believe! I would not have known how to put God first or been able to obtain all the incredible abundance God had in store for my life.

God Took Care of Everything

When I had made the decision to take the Foundational Class for the first time, I had to get permission for time off from the company I worked for. At that time, I worked for a leading American automotive manufacturer, and it was during model change (when cars get completely redesigned), and you did not miss work unless you were in the hospital or dead. To make matters worse, I was a second-shift department supervisor. I was exhorted to ask for the time off anyway. I did and was told it could not be done. I was told by my wife, the people who were going to run the class, and others in the fellowship to put down the fee for the class, and most of all, believe that God would take care of it. So I did.

The class was to start on Friday. Nothing had changed the Sunday before it. I went to work on Monday and was called into the office for a meeting. The company had decided to try something new. The model changeover was going to be a little different, and it involved the offices changing hours. My shift was to start at noon and run until we were done with what we had to do, and then we could go home. And our pay would be the same as an eight-hour shift. We would not lose any money. I told the people working for me we could go as soon as we got done and that I needed their help on Fridays (which turned out to be one of the slowest nights with the least amount of work). I had no problem getting out really early then so I could get to class.

My wife, son, and I had to be on time for class. I had to drive an hour to an hour and a half from work to home. From home to the class location was another hour to an hour and a half. God took care of everything for us: car, food, traffic, highway problems, etc. The closest we came to missing the start of class was twelve minutes. God is never late.

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Way Ambassadors Have God as Their Partner

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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God Exceeds Way Ambassador’s Expectations

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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