WDN - September/October 2011

September/October 2011

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FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE

The basic and fundamental doctrine of this organization shall be the Bible standard of full salvation, which is repentance, baptism in water by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. We shall endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit until we all come into the unity of the faith, at the same time admonish-ing all brethren that they shall not contend for their different views to the disunity of the body.

FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE

The basic and fundamental doctrine of this organization shall be the Bible standard of full salvation, which is repentance, baptism in water by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. We shall endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit until we all come into the unity of the faith, at the same time admonish-ing all brethren that they shall not contend for their different views to the disunity of the body.

WDN EDITORCraig LundtPO Box 688

Beloit, WI [email protected]

WDN SECTIONAL REPSSection 1: Loretta LundtSection 2: Carole Keller

Section 3: - Open -Section 4: Frank Ritchie

Section 5: Kathy Fry

WDN Proofreader: Dede Sharp

DISTRICT OFFICERSSuperintendent:

Rev. J.E. PutnamSecretary-Treasurer: Rev. E.A. Kaske

Honorary Board Member: Rev. J. Grant

PRESBYTERSSection 1: Rev. C. WelchSection 2: Rev. A. Tamel

Section 3: Rev. E. HermanSection 4: Rev. J. SindlerSection 5: Rev. P. Bennett

DEPARTMENTSForeign Missions: Rev. M.W. Rogers

Home Missions: Rev. R. KeilleyMedia Missions: Rev. S. Jacobs

Ladies Ministries: Sis. J. SchumacherYouth Ministries: Rev. Tim Vik

Revival Commission: Rev. M. HookSunday School: Rev. W. RehbeinPrayer Force: Rev. Don RogersMen’s Ministry: Rev. S. Rogers

Music Ministry: Sis. Darlene BoytePurpose Institute: Rev. J.D. Putnam

Deaf Ministry: Renee Thomas

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By John E. PutnamDistrict Superintendent

Sister Putnam and I are presently living in Green County, where ev-ery summer it lives up to its name. This area of Wis-consin is known as “Cheese Country,” where you see dairy farms just about everywhere you look. When our family first moved to the area, we lived in the country for those first twelve years. We were surrounded by farms, only to wake up many a morning with that smell of “dairy air.”

Every spring, I watched our neigh-bor prepare his farmland in anticipation of planting the seed that would produce food for his dairy cattle. He would ride his tractor and plow his field from sun-up to sundown for several days straight. Over this period of time, I would witness large clumps of clay and deep plowed ruts turn into relatively smooth rich soil as the farmer would go over the field day after day. Then I would see our neighbor out once again planting the seed for the needed crops and, after the seeding was finished, I didn’t see him as frequently throughout the rest of the summer. But what I did see was the change that took place in the field that was prepared and

planted.The farmer did what he could do,

and then had to leave his effort up to what God does through His principle of sowing and reaping. The Word of the Lord states...

James 5:7.... Behold, the husband-man waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

I believe all of us do what we can do.... teach Home Bible Studies, witness, pray, and befriend the lost of our areas, but then there comes a time in this to-tal process whereby we must “trust” and “wait” on the Lord.

As Americans who are conditioned to expect a “press button,” “instant life-style,” it becomes difficult at times to wait, and to do so patiently, for the de-sired results of effort.

Jesus said... Luke 21:19 In your pa-tience possess ye your souls.

I think all of us believe that we have enough “patience,” so that we can endure the waiting for the believed harvest in our ministries, but the truth of the mat-ter is, we never know until we have to endure that waiting process.

I often think about our Home Mis-sionaries who go out into uncharted ar-eas, where the true gospel has never been preached, and there they set out to es-tablish a beachhead. How many hours, weeks, months, and yea r s ,

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By tim Vik

What began as a solo journey last year resumed as a group bike ride along Milwaukee’s lakefront this year. Six brave souls ventured out into the wild confines of Milwaukee’s Henry Aaron and Oak Leaf trails on only two wheels a piece. Separate bike seats, but a sin-gular purpose - answering the question “Why?” With each pedal along this 50 mile trek, we responded to this question by knowing “1 Lost = 2 Many.”

Sheaves for Christ’s (SFC) theme of “Why? Because 1 Lost = 2 Many” con-veys the heartbeat of everything SFC supports. Why host a SFC car wash? Because a foreign missionary needs a vehicle to spread the Gospel. Why host a SFC walk/bike relay? Because a home missionary needs a church building to call their own. Why sell pies, fill coin banks, or host a brat fry? Because sec-

tional youth rallies, Youth Camp, Win-ter Youth Convention, and HYPHEN events impact hundreds of WI students throughout the year!

Wisconsin Youth Ministry’s (WYM) SFC goal is $100,000 this year. Through the six bike riders’ efforts, we are $2,500 closer. Will you help us reach our goal? For info on WYM, go here: www.wisyouth.org. For info about SFC, go here: www.sheavesforchrist.com.

Tour De Lakefrontthey patiently wait for a suitable har-vest of souls to begin to come in. They keep working the field, and they keep sowing the seed of the Word, but there just doesn’t seem like much is happen-ing, just like in the natural harvest field where there is that period of waiting.

It is during this period where it seems to be the most difficult. It’s dur-ing the wait where the enemy would like to come in like a flood and make his mental accusations about you and your ministry, and bring condemnation for your “obvious” lack of success. But it is also during this time that the “seed” is germinating and changing below the outward surface, and eventually, one by one, God begins to bring forth the long anticipated “fruit of the harvest.”

It’s amazing that we judge so much by “numbers” when God is always look-ing at potential possibilities. All of us can count the number of acorns on an oak tree, but only God can see the po-tential for multiplied forests inside each “acorn!”

Be patient, Brothers and Sisters, revival is NOW, whatever state you’re finding yourself in; the harvest is in the field. We just need to be able to believe God and patiently wait for it!

Keep preparing, and keep planting!


By LorEtta LunDt

What an unprecedented year of excellence! General Superintendent, Rev. David Bernard, and former Wis-consinite, Rev. Jason Scis-coe, brought us the anointed teaching and preaching of the Word. Wisconsin is grate-ful to these men for allowing God to use them in such a mighty way.

Family Camp 2011 start-ed off with the graduation of last semester’s Purpose Insti-tute graduates and continued to build momentum as the week progressed. This first kick-off evening service was also translated into Spanish. There was a special treat prior to Wednesday evening’s main service. What an honor to have our general superinten-dent at camp to conduct the ordination service for Pastor Aaron Soto.

Bro. David Bernard taught foundational truths and resto-ration of them. He challenged us to stand on these truths, no

matter how unpopular they may seem at the time. Liv-ing for God is the only thing worth living for. Whatever you do in your life should lead toward living for God. While salvation is FREE, disciple-ship will cost you everything. Be willing to give all to God. He also advised us to pay at-tention to the little things – the little bad things and good things. Don’t allow little foxes to destroy a great harvest. Bro. Bernard concluded the week by challenging us to have an experience and testimony that match our doctrine. We need Apostolic identity, Apostolic unity and Apostolic revival!

Bro. Jason Sciscoe released faith and healing and empow-ered us to move ahead with confidence in God. He taught us to decide what we believe and stick with it. Don’t walk around confused. On day two, he preached “Remember Me,” or “Re-member Me,” mean-ing: put me back together, put our churches back together. As the week progressed, Bro.


Sciscoe taught on releasing the power of agreement, putting action behind the prophetic word in our lives, and burying the bad experience of religion and focusing on a relationship with God. He closed the week with a prayer of blessing on our state.

During the adult camp sessions, the children were blessed with their own ser-vices. The morning evangelists were the Livengoods, and the evening evangelists were the Olivers. The children ages 3-5 were with the Franclses. Sis.

Kay Rehbein reported that 75 children received the Holy Ghost. “The power of God fell so hard the kids just lingered at the altar and…wept and cried. One young lady was…speaking in tongues unaware of what was happening around her way after the time of dis-missal.” She ended up being carried back to her parents af-ter everyone else had left. “It was an awesome time with Je-sus and many of our children were touched!!!” Thanks to ev-eryone who helped make fam-ily camp week a great success!

Healing Testimony

My name is Sister Gerrie Dempsey. I am a foster parent and the little girl, Lilly, is two years old and didn’t walk. I went to family camp Sunday night and wanted her to be prayed for. There were so many people up by the altar, so I grabbed my two sons-in-law, Rev. Scott Huse and Rev. James Moses. They laid hands on her and prayed. Monday, she took three steps. Tuesday, she took seven steps. She is still wobbly, but is walking all over the place. Thank you, Jesus! Praise God for the miracle!


By Vicki LEonarDSon

On Friday afternoon as I was pack-ing for camp meeting, I decided to take a break. I made a cup of coffee and sat in my favorite chair in my favorite room, to chat with my very best Friend.

As I began to worship God, my thoughts and prayers turned, as they al-ways do, toward my son, Dayn.

Suddenly I heard the still small voice of my Creator say, “The prodigal is coming home next week. Home to Me, and also he will move back home right after camp meeting.”

I was completely shocked, even though this is exactly what his dad, Scott, and I had been intensely fasting and praying about for more than two years. God’s presence was thick as I cried and worshiped. I called my mom, and we wept and rejoiced together.

On Thursday night as Jason Scis-coe was preaching, I was a bit discour-aged. I knew Dayn would be leaving to go home right after the service. God spoke to me again. “Listen to what the preacher is saying!” So I listened intent-ly as he explained how God had given him a word for the church. I carefully noted the three points that Bro. Sciscoe articulated so eloquently.

When the call was given for the church to come forward, I went back and sat by my son. I repeated, as best as I could, the message to the church, only I personalized it. I said, “Dayn, religion has not worked for you. Religion has been oppressive in your life. The time has come for you to have a funeral for religion, bury it, and focus on RELA-TIONSHIP! RELATIONSHIP with Jesus Christ!” I then repeated the rest of what the preacher said. “The rain will come, the harvest, and then you will be a giant slayer in the kingdom of God!”

I watched as his eyes began to fill with tears. I sat beside him and tra-vailed as he repented. Bro. Hanthorn (the pastor in Germantown, Wiscon-sin with a mind-blowing testimony of healing and deliverance) came over and laid hands on him and prayed fervent-ly. Scott prayed on his left side, and I sat on his right. Dayn’s grandparents, along with other dear friends, gathered around us and began to travail. It was as if the sanctuary became a delivery room, as my son was reborn into the kingdom of God. As we all continued to pray, my friend and mentor, Dar-lene Boyte, came and stood in front of Dayn, gripped his hands, and rebuked by name many evil spirits and com-manded each one of them to leave.

Dayn decided to stay for the re-mainder of the week, and at the Fri-day evening choir practice, evangelist Mark Showalter called him aside and gave him a button-up shirt to wear so he could sing in the choir. After church, Continued on page 16

he counseled Dayn at length about his own personal experience as a prodigal son.

On Saturday, Dayn’s dad received a text from him. “Is it ok if I move back home on Sunday?”

Scott and I had tried everything. When we quit begging, pleading, cry-ing, lecturing, and yelling, and began fasting and praying like never before, God moved in and worked a mighty miracle of healing and restoration!

I am so grateful to Pastor Grant and my church family for their many prayers, love and support.

“…bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.”

Luke 15: 22-24


One classmate wasn’t with us for finals for Purpose Institute in fall of 2010. She returned for her final semes-ter in Spring 2011. Here, Bro. Chad Williams and Sis. Rosemary recount what happened that kept her from fi-nals that week.

Bro. Williams starts us off…[Rosemary] is a great student. I

don’t know that she is even allowed to get anything below an A. I’m pretty sure, in her own mind, she doesn’t allow that anyway. I don’t think I’ve seen any-thing below an A. She loves P.I. and she loves the Lord and she’ll tell us a little bit about that, but Sis. Rosemary…so will you share with us what happened and we can talk, and we’ll fill in the de-tails together…

Now this happened, I believe, back in November… You were concerned about finals and the family coming over for Thanksgiving dinner…. That’s what she told me. She said, “You have to get me out of here [the hospital]; I have to get ready for my finals for P.I.” After I picked myself up off the floor, because she was so worried about it and it was funny, I was like, “Sis. Rosemary, you’ve got to calm down. We will give you plenty of time to take the finals”… The funniest comment she said was… she had me rolling… she had broken ribs and we’re laughing… She literally was out for many minutes… She said, “I know, I am just praying that the Lord will help me, because I don’t need any more brain damage.” I almost passed out, we were laughing so much… Share with us what all happened…

Sis. Rosemary:First of all, thanks for coming to

visit me and… for reassuring me…

It was November 5, I guess it was about 3:30 in the morning, because I’m not sure about that, because I wasn’t there. My two dogs started barking and they wouldn’t relent, and Howard, my husband, came down to let them out and he thought, “Why are they doing this? She usually lets them out when they need to go out.” So he let them out and went back to his bedroom, and they would not relent. They ran through the house and were barking and claw-ing at the door, so he came down. Then he thought: well, something must be wrong because they just won’t relent… He went into my bedroom and found me there and called 911, of course… They tried three times and could not revive me. So they just took me to the hospital.

They did not have the siren on and they did not hurry, and my daughter was at the hospital when the ambulance came. She said, “Well, my mother is coming to the hospital, but that ambu-lance just drove up and it isn’t even in a

Glorious Miracle!Sis. Rosemary’s Testimony

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hurry or anything.” When they brought me in… they said, “We’ve tried to re-vive her three times and she is gone… She just ran in there then and they said, “You can’t go in there.” And she said, “I am. That’s my mother.” He said, “We’ll try one more time,” and he did.

…I do not know how long I was out actually, but I do know that when I got the bill I had a CAT scan on my head and my body, to make sure I didn’t have a stroke…. When I did wake up, I just remember the doctor leaning over me said, “This is a miracle.” He did say that… It was. It was just a glorious miracle.

There is something that is really neat. When I started this P.I., I said, “Lord, please let me live long enough to accomplish this, and to use Your Word as a testimony in my life how I can ~ to work for you,” and I said, “Just don’t let me die.” And I did. I prayed this. “Don’t let me die before I finish P.I.,” and I re-ally truly believe that He fulfilled that promise to me.

All the prayers and all the wonder-ful support that I got from Bro. Wil-liams, I’ll never forget it, because he would come in and smile and, like he said, we would laugh, but, ahh, it wasn’t easy to laugh, but he was a tremendous support for me …always encouraging me that I could do it… I praise God for all the help that I’ve gotten and, to Him, for giving me this opportunity to finish and to go on and do what He wants me to do… I have a picture of my dogs if anyone would like to see them.

Bro. Williams:So she obviously has the picture

of those dogs because those dogs were part of the process of saving her life ~


By tim Vik

After prayer and much consider-ation, the Youth Camp 2011 theme came into focus - UN. We wanted WI students to: do the UNexpected and have Christ-like character, realize the UNlimited impact of displaying the fruits of the Spirit, learn how to exer-cise the UNreal gifts of the Spirit, and be an UNcommon leader. With an al-most capacity campground we antici-pated a God-centered Youth Camp.

in all aspects of Wi youth camp, 2011 was epic!

• We raised over $500 at our

SFC dunk tank.• (Optional) morning prayer was

packed every day.• The music team and choir, led

by Sis. Darlene Boyte, was amaz-ingly anointed.

• Every AM breakout session was informational and empower-ing! Thank you, Andrew & Christina Grant, Rev. Williams, Rev. Pace, and Rev. Heidenreich.

• Each morning session speaker was impactful! Thank you, Rev. Bridges, Rev. Newble, and Bro. Birt.

• The evening services were Apostolic to the core! Rev. Omar Jolly (NY) preached powerful Ap-ostolic messages and the students responded!

We look forward to Youth Camp

2012 and anticipate a full crowd, so fill out your registration forms right away!


RECON – “Dare to Dream” was this year’s theme for Junior Camp 2011. It was held July 18-22 for children ages 9-12. The week brought some extreme heat to our state and our ‘RECON’ youth found themselves ‘battling’ the high temperatures, but it didn’t stop God from moving.

A lot of talented people worked to-gether to make this an excellent, suc-cessful year for our children. Bro. Put-nam encouraged the children, “Don’t let

anyone kill your dream.” All watched with the air of expectation and child-like faith the story of Joseph as written by Bro. Bath. By the end of the week, there were 19 children who had been filled with the Holy Ghost.

After many years of service, Bro. and Sis. Rehbein have decided to say farewell as head of the children’s min-istry. Thank you, Rehbeins, for all you have done and will continue to do to further the gospel in our state.

“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.”

2 Corinthians 5:18 (KJV)


By craig LunDt

On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at about 9:30 p.m., our two girls were already sleeping, when our son, Caden (age 9), came out of his room and said that he felt like he wanted to pray. My wife and I said that would be fine. We asked him if he would like us to pray with him or if he wanted to pray alone. He wanted to pray alone and found a spot kneeling by the couch in the living room. He prayed for a few minutes on his own, then we asked if he would like us to pray with him. He told us that he wasn’t sure if he had the Holy Ghost, so Lo-retta and I encouraged him to pray until he knew for sure. We were both speaking in tongues and crying as we prayed with him. He was praying and really getting a hold of God. I told him that he was doing well in his praying, but I encour-aged him to ask God to forgive him of specific things (lying, etc.) and to repent of his sins. Within about 15 minutes, he was speaking in tongues. We all turned from crying to laugh-ing. It was an incredible night in our home, one we will never forget. Now we look forward to doing the same with our girls someday.

Prayer @ Home


By Frank ritchiE

Every year the men from all over the Wisconsin District get together for a time of fellowship, good food, and great preaching. Men’s Camp is a great time. For one Friday and Saturday each sum-mer, we golf, fish, play horseshoes, disc golf, to name a few, but more importantly, every year we get great men of God to preach for us and we are blessed by God’s presence. The money and time are well spent. This year, however, was a little dif-ferent; certainly we want to put on a good “show” and make each year better than the last, but this year it seemed everyone wanted to try to get away from the “show” and experience a demonstration.

Bro. Stan Gleason was phenomenal as our featured speaker, preaching both Friday night and Saturday: “Two Guys Went to Church” and “The Goal of Bib-lical Manhood.” Bro. Gleason challenged us to stand eyeball to eyeball with Jesus in the full measure of the stature of Christ. Our own Bro. Rufus Parker spoke pow-

erfully on Saturday, challenging us to be “Men of Truth,” able men, who hate cov-etousness, and fear God. Both men were very anointed by God for those services.

This year the Men’s Dept. took their part of the service and, rather than pro-mote any sort of program, opened up the service to the moving of the Spirit of God. There was an earnest desire for God to meet needs and fervent prayer was offered up by men on that Saturday morning. The altar was packed with men praying for each other, at least three men were filled with the Holy Ghost, and oth-ers were touched and blessed in ways that only eternity will tell.

We serve a miracle-working God who is willing to demonstrate His power to people who desire a powerful move of His Spirit. Next year our Men’s Camp special speaker is going to be Bro. Jeff Arnold. Men, please come expecting an-other powerful move of God.

Men’s CaMp 2011:An Astounding Move of God

a testimony from Bro. Hanthorn:

Wanted to let you know that I received a call this evening from the gentleman that was prayed for at Men’s conference. His name is Armando and he is a new convert who has been with us for about a year. He was recently diagnosed with Sclorosing Colangitis, a very rare disease. His diagnosis was cer-tain and they informed him that he would most likely be needing a liver transplant sometime in the future. Today they conducted an invasive procedure to see what stage he was at. Their preliminary diagnosis last week put him at about a 2 or 3 on a scale of 4. After the biopsy and testing, the doctor says there is no Sclorosing Colangitis and that his liver is perfectly fine!!! God is still healing.


By hEathEr PoLanD

Many people are intimidated by at-tending a new church. The idea of driv-ing to a new neighborhood, meeting new people, and experiencing a radically dif-ferent worship and preaching style can be daunting. So, August 21, Apostolic Truth Church (ATC) in Appleton brought church to the people!

It was months in the planning, and the entire church family needed to pull together to make Praise in the Park a success. A 25-person planning commit-tee was assembled to represent the vari-ous ministries that would have a role at Praise in the Park. The departments and teams that were involved were: KidzCon-nect, Surge Student Ministries, music, promotions, care-groups, ushers, greeters, sound, media, the kitchen staff, the bul-letin team, security, set-up, clean-up, and guest follow-up.

To further set the stage, a 24-hour prayer chain was followed by a person-al contact campaign launched by Rev. Aaron Soto, the lead pastor at Apostolic Truth Church. The concept was simple:

people respond to a personal invitation. The execution, however, was a bit more complex. The components of the cam-paign were comprised of:

• flyers designed and printed;• personal contacts written down by

congregation members;• contacts prayed over;• contacts invited.In the personal contact campaign,

over 1,000 flyers were distributed! In ad-dition, approximately 55,000 people were reached by ads in the Post Crescent.

As the weeks turned into days, an-ticipation was building for what God was going to do! Three days prior to the actual event, evangelist Kris Dillingham arrived to help the church prepare. Over Friday and Saturday, the neighborhoods surrounding Pierce Park were inundated with over 2,000 flyers, promoting every-thing from the morning service and con-cert, to the give-aways and free chicken dinner! Kris Dillingham also taught an altar workers’ seminar.

When Sunday finally arrived, ex-pectations were high, but God exceeded

Bringing Church to the People

everyone’s expectations! The weather couldn’t have been better and there were nearly 500 in attendance throughout the day. The best part? Nineteen people were filled with the Holy Ghost and four were baptized in Jesus’ name!

800 pieces of fried chicken were enjoyed at the free dinner provided for those who attended the morning service. Apart from free food, Apostolic Truth Church was able to bless the community by giving away 14 great prizes, including two children’s bikes, a netbook, an mp3 player, and gift cards. Completed prize registration forms served as a contact list for guest follow-up.

In the afternoon, there was a concert featuring some of the best music ATC has to offer! The Sanctuary and Silver Owls Choirs sang under the direction of Sis. Darlene Boyte. Seth Boyte directed the Surge Choir, and Tiffany Hartzheim directed Kidz N Hymn, the children’s choir. The Choral also sang.

In conclusion, ATC couldn’t have asked for better results. Ephesians 3:20 states in the NIV that God ‘is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” However, we need to do our part. Vision, church unity, dedication, strong leadership, prayer, and fasting were key components that allowed God to move in a mighty way.


District calenDar of eventsOCTOBER1– CFC Kickoff12-16—UPCI General Conference, Louisville, KY14-15-– PI— Appleton & Madison21-22—PI Eau Claire21-22—Spanish Ladies Retreat, ALMAS24-26—WI District Planning Session 28-29—PI—Oak Creek28-29 WYM Mosaic Conference, Wausau28-Section 3 CFC Dinner, Madison, 7 pm 31—Section 1 CFC Dinner, Appleton

NOvEMBER 1- Adopted MissionaryOffering Kick-Off1—Section 2 CFC Dinner,Oconomowoc3—Section 4 CFC Dinner, Thorp 4—Section 5 CFC Dinner, Eau Claire 4 & 5—Ladies Ministries“The Gathering” Minister’s wives retreat, Location TBA6—Daylight Saving Time Ends 2 a.m. 6—All Nations Sunday11-12—PI—Madison & Appleton18-19-PI, Oak Creek & Eau Claire Media MissionsMission of Hope Offering24-Thanksgiving

DECEMBER2-3—PI, Eau Claire & Oak Creek5-7- District Board Meeting,Elkhart Lake25-Christmas (Sunday)29-31 Winter Youth Convention Paper Valley Hotel, AppletonDec 31-AMO final offering


my Prodigal SonContinued from page 6

P.S. Notes from the prodigal’s dad...

By Scott LEonarDSon

As I was driving up to camp alone on Thursday, I was overwhelmed by an amazing presence of God! I was driving down the road, weeping and speaking in tongues much of the way. Here’s my Facebook post from that morning…

“On my way back up to camp…there is a spirit of expectancy upon me…just you watch what my God will do!”

God began to show me a picture of a concrete block wall that was be-ginning to crumble…I could see the mortar falling out and the wall moving. God said, “The wall is coming down today!”

At the end of the service, when Dayn was going to leave camp and go back home, I could not see the wall coming down…I was discouraged. I was on the praise team during the altar call and I could not see any evidence of a response from my son. I felt impressed to just close my eyes and worship God in spite of what I could see. When I opened my eyes, Dayn was doubled-over in the pew weeping! I ran down to where he was seated...Vicki was on the

pew next to him, groaning in travail. I put my arm around his shoulders and felt the great-heaving sobs of a soul in deep repentance. I looked up and saw all of my brothers and sisters in the Lord gathered around weeping and praying for my son. I felt such love emanating from their prayers! I deeply appreciate ALL of the family of God! In these perilous times, we need the support of each other.

When I looked into Dayn’s eyes af-terwards, I was looking into the eyes of my son again…not the eyes of a caged-animal, as it had seemed for so long. To me, this was the greatest miracle I have ever witnessed! Thank you, Jesus, for my son! He, who was lost, has come home!

glorious miracleContinued from page 7

getting the attention of Bro. Hahn… there were lots of contributors there… Even the doctor… as a handful of peo-ple, who knew this was happening, were praying… [The doctors] had fulfilled their responsibilities, but something moved on him to try one more time. She has a great doctor and he has an incredible spirit. And I remember him telling me the next morning… “She would not be here without the Lord.” I met some other doctors and they said, “We are making this a part of our con-ference lectures. This is something that has never happened. This is a miracle and we are going to tell people about this.”

This all happened because of diabe-tes and they were once again trying to regulate her diabetes, and they couldn’t get it right for a while… There is a rea-

son why they couldn’t regulate it after they brought her back. Tell us about that…

Sis. Rosemary:Oh, this is so amazing. I have been

on insulin for over 30 years and other medication and they couldn’t get my blood right. They were trying all types of medication. Finally the doctor said, “You don’t need insulin anymore…” And I am just on oral medication and that’s ridiculous, because all of my rela-tives: my sister, my daughter, all my aunts… they have always died of it. God is GOOOOD!

Bro. Williams:That was so cool. I mean, it was all

awesome, but they were trying to regu-late something God had already taken care of. It took them a while to recog-nize that…

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Sis. Rosemary:I almost forgot… I had renal fail-

ure… and the doctor said if you could just get 75% back they would be so happy… I have 100% back of my kid-neys… God is so tremendous.

Bro. Williams:…There’s no question. She was

gone. Her body had changed: the tem-perature, even the consistency of her skin… This lady is sitting here with us today. What is also very profound is the fact that she is sitting here in her right mind and also recovered. This lady was potentially gone for 10, maybe 20 min-utes. And if you know anything about the mind, two or three minutes of no oxygen and it’s over, so it’s tremendous and an awesome display of God’s pow-er. He is an awesome God. Hallelujah! This is a great example of how God is not a respecter of persons. He places value on every life and has intent and purpose for everyone… and He has a lot planned for Sis. Rosemary. She said, “God saved me so I could finish P.I.”

Since the time of this interview, Sis. Rosemary completed her four-year degree program at Purpose Institute and participated in P.I. graduation at Fam-ily Camp in July. To God be the Glory!

WDN - September/October 2011

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