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The summer camp meeting this year was geared toward young people.  Young people came, but so did older people.  Those of us who are “young at heart” fit in well.

There was an air of expectancy that the Lord would move.  If you came expecting that God would do something in your life, He did.

The fire fell on people who needed a fresh touch from God.  Many were healed of different infirmities.  The Lord touched many who were wounded and broken hearted.  Others received direction for their lives.  Whatever the need, it was met.

People were hungry.  There were a number of nights that the service went past midnight.  It was common to still have people in the sanctuary at 2:00 AM.  It appears that most people sense the shortness of time and realize that they need to press in to the things of God so they don’t miss anything He has for them.

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Soul winning for The River Bible Institute has been a weekly event that has allowed me to lead people to Jesus Christ on the streets, in the malls, and the housing projects. Many times it’s like getting born again all over again when they say the prayer with you and you feel the same exhilaration, gratitude, and love.

Children have a special place in my heart and to see those, with innocent, child like faith, receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior is like having your first born baby. The delivery went smoothly, everything was normal, and you just had a wonderful feeling that all is well.

The Love of God is the thing that impacted me the most when I received the infilling of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 5:5) To see others experiencing that Love for the first time or the rekindling of it for those who have backslidden brings a “joy that is unspeakable and full of glory.” (1 Peter 1:8) There’s almost a look of unbelief on some of the faces. For others you see a hopeful gleam in their eyes that maybe this is real. Then there are some that have such light and joy on their faces as they encounter the very presence of God in such a tangible way, you can see an immediate effect. From darkness to light they are born again and translated into God’s Kingdom.

One of the most exciting things is training up people who have never won anyone to the Lord, to go out and see them win their first soul to Jesus. From then on, they are on fire about sharing the unconditional Love of God to a hurting world. They step out in fear and trembling, maybe stumbling over the words at first, mustering up the belief that this is going to work. When they see how easy it is and that the person repeating the prayer is very grateful afterwards; it makes them want to make up for lost time as they zealously approach the next person.

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During the Bible School Year Soul Winning can be described as one of the most unique and diverse experiences I had in my journey as a servant of God.

As a servant of the Lord I need to represent His Holy Kingdom in every action, and every step I make toward others, therefore as a Soul Winner I share the * TRUTH * and God removes the veil from their eyes. The Lord sees the motive of my heart, full of kind, compassion, love and humility willing to do whatever it takes to bring more people to the other side. The sides where they can feel secure accepted and love. The side where they feel HOPE!!!

When I go out all I need to do is simply incline my ears toward God and His Holy Spirit will work by molding and equipping me with wisdom and boldness to be a soul winner. The Lord speaks to our hearts and by His Holy Word we will be able to have a great foundation as a believer and to prepare each of us for whatever He calls us to do.

I know that working as a TEAM with my brothers and sisters in Christ (Eric Jones, Ida Cohen and Jesse R) is causing a real impact for our community around Tampa. Witnessing a few weeks ago when we visited the Hispanic area, many persons accepted the Lord in their hearts; some were delivered from diseases and bondages, even others speaking in tongues. One of the cases that really touched my heart is regarding an eleven year old boy named Miguel, who now is even leading more kids by himself to the Lord after we prayed with him. Another case is the Security Guard of the building for disable a person, whom was sick, after I pray for him laying hands declaring victory; he accepted Jesus and also felt the fire of God.

When I visited the Nursing Homes there was an incredible peace inside myself. I spent time praying and telling them about Jesus. Reading scriptures regarding healing, then the joy of the Lord was shinning on their faces. They felt LOVED!!!

What have I accomplished as a Soul Winner?

There are not enough words to express the results of OBEDIENCE. Every week, every Saturday, a new group of adults, children and seniors from any of the areas we visit, receive the blessings of our GOD (miracles, healings, new jobs, etc.) Soul winning it’s like a RAINBOW that represents the following:

BLUE = represents the LOVE of GOD planted inside each of their hearts.
YELLOW= represents the HOPE for their future. JESUS!!! GREEN= represents the new door, the TRUTH.
PINK= represents the KINDNESS, MERCY & GRACE of our Jesus forgiving their sins.
RED= represents the JOY they feel, they can’t contain it.
PURPLE= represents the INDESCRIBABLE PEACE.

S O U L S
S= Sinners accepting JESUS
O= Obedience toward God. Outstanding miracles, healings.
U= Unending mission as Christians.
L= Led always by the Holy Spirit.
S= Serving God by bringing more souls.

As a conclusion, in tears of joy, I will keep going every week inspired and led by the Holy Spirit reaching more souls!

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The Sweet Presence of God and His Precious Anointing are flowing progressively with regards to my soul winning experiences. God is always ready to use me as long as I’m always ready to be used. The past 2 years have been a lot of joy and laughter for me.

In around February 2008 is when I began to latch on to the Great Awakening Tour and became involved with 6 different Florida Tours. Than in January of 2009 I traveled with the core GAT team to the West Coast for nearly 3 months, soul winning, and praying for the hurts and needs of the people was a large part of what I got to do also resulting in many healings and miracles for which I give God all of the Glory, Honor, and Praise. Many times I would notice as we were leaving the area we were soul winning at that day a special tangible Presence of The Lord’s peace would rest on the place.

In August of 2009 at 53 years of age I moved to Tampa and began attending The River Bible Institute on a Scholarship. At the start of the school year I was placed in the Outreach Department [soul winning] to do my scholarship work study hours, and I must say that there is no fame, or fortune that the world could offer that could compare with seeing God’s hand reach down and touch some one’s life and literally change and transform them, I have become much bolder and I can see the need greater than I have before.

This experience has transformed my life today and my future forever life can never be the same. I have been to 11 different cities with the Great Awakening Tour and there are so many testimonies of what the Lord has done, I have personally pray with more than 4000 people since being involved with the Great Awakening Tour and The River Bible Institute.

When I’m doing business I have opportunities to pray for sick and hurting folks and lead them to Jesus. So God is with me where ever I go, and I give Him all of the Glory, Honor, and Praise for the price he paid to set all of us free to love him and to serve him daily.

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I first became acquainted with soul winning on my first Great Awakening tour. Little did I know how this would impact my Life and others!!Taking the class “Soul Winning”, with one of the team members from the river church. We were taught how to use the script. This was in the evening. Our class was late… Then we hit the streets!! I looked at my watch and it was 9:30 pm. We headed to an outside mall. In the parking lot was a black biker gang, the team leader said going for it! We went over and started to talk with them. We started to say the script, and a few of them walked away in a circle fashion and came back to my surprise!

They all said the prayer!! Glory to God!! Well you know then I was off! We split up into groups of 2. Everyone I made eye contact with, I talked to. I was getting blown off by a few but it didn’t stop me. All I could see were “SOULS”… After being at the end of my first week, the Lord had used me to lead 300 people to the Lord!!! I flew home and shared with my church that Sunday, their mouths dropped in amazement! You would have thought I told them I had had lunch with the Pope. Well few months later the Lord told me to come to Florida and sit under Pastor Rodney’s ministry. I obeyed and came down. I plugged in rather quickly to the soul winning teams.

Then in May of that year I became a member of the church. I had been helping out on the bus ministry. Working with and in the outreach department. We had to go on the streets daily to get the bus commitments and this also was “GREAT FISHING” for SOULS… I was consumed with how the Lord was using me to impact these communities. Watching the Lord touch his people, right in front of me and being that conduit that he was using. I told them I was just the mail lady delivering the message! I learned that the love of God was beaming out of me! God’s children were drawn to me because of the Lords “Sweet Presence” in me. I cannot do enough to see Gods people come to the Lord. Soul winning is” MY PASSION”, not a program! Everywhere I go I listen to the Holy Spirit.

I look for the lost. I will go anywhere God calls me to preach his word and see the lost saved. I look for every opportunity to lead someone to the Lord. I tell Gods people what God has done in my Life and he wants to do that in yours. When you show them the Love of Jesus, they all want to be loved. Showing them that the devil is a liar. When you except Jesus as you Lord and savior, he comes to live inside of you, he has all the little brushes to clean you up! With Him you will go through the fire and will not smell like smoke!! All I think about all day and night is “SOULS”. Going out into the high ways and by ways to find the lost a lead the too JESUS!!!!! AMEN……..

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I was recently able to witness to a man who was already saved. However, he told me that the night before he had been smoking and drinking with some of his old friends from before he was saved. He said he needed prayer because he had to give a presentation in two hours and he said he still felt intoxicated. I was able to pray for him that the Lord would give him a sound mind and be perfectly coherent.

After I prayed, I asked him and he said he was better and had a clear mind! He was able to think clearer and I could tell by looking at him that his demeanor had definitely changed! I was also able to share with him about the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit wanted to come and change him and help him in everything. He was from a church that believed the Holy Spirit is not available to believers anymore.

As I was sharing with with this man, I was telling the man scripture upon scripture of how the Holy Spirit was for all believers and for us today. He did not receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit but I was able to point him to the Word and answer some of his questions and plant the seed into his heart for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. After I was done sharing with him, the man said that I was sent from the Lord to talk to him. He had really needed the prayer and encouragement, and I was glad to have been able to minister to him.

As I walked away from the man, I was amazed at at all the scripture that had come out of my spirit! I did not even realize how much of the Word has been implanted on the inside of me! The only way to find out is to pour out into others!

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Bob and I were sitting in the church van number two (on stand by), ready to rush off and pick up the crowds that could not fit on the chartered tour buses. There was excitement in the air as the huge tour busses continued to turn into the vast palm tree lined parking lot at the River. Our excitement increased with each bus, bus after bus, one purple, some white or bright yellow came into view from the city’s interstate highways.

As the buses rolled up to the front entrance, the passengers with many excited children, hurried up the walkways to the draped cloth covered tables under the awing. An excited greeting party waited to enroll the first time visitors and present them with a gift from Pastors Rodney and Adonica Howard-Browne on this special Spanish Outreach Sunday. There was an air of expectation from all the students of River Bible Institute who had labored with all of the staff, during the hectic and rewarding previous weeks of preparations.

In the spacious newly renovated lobby the large screens flashed out the sights and sounds of the worship team on stage in the sanctuary. Original pieces of art work by the hand of Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne were on display throughout the lobby as well as a plethora of his encased works of teachings on CD’s and DVD’s and books.

The smell of Starbucks coffee emanated from the River’s Café Organic, as the excited masses viewed the array of bicycles to be given away to the children today. Many greeters welcomed the arrival of the first time visitors, the faithful, and the many streaming in from a packed parking lot with vehicles that had license plates from New York, Illinois, Maryland, Georgia, and many other states. The abundant flags of all of our proud states of America mixed with most of the world’s flags waved in the slight breeze from the light polls, on this sun basked warm winter morning, here at the River.

The west parking lot and south parking lots were alive with activity as the huge busses were being filled with hundreds of boxes of food that were being loaded by the green fork lift and numerous volunteers, volunteers, volunteers everywhere with their orange vests, sorting gifts, directing traffic, and even selling hot dogs and sodas to the sound originating from the local Spanish Radio Station’s sound truck.

The parking lots were lined with yards of red and yellow ribbons to section off areas for the food distribution and hundreds and hundreds of gifts to be given to the children after the Big Event which climaxed with an altar call of hundreds. Yes, hundreds stood, many weeping, with the acceptance of the Lord Jesus into their hearts. Yes, the hand of God is here, the movement of the Holy Spirit has a free reign here at the River; and that is the most exciting feeling, expectation, exposure, we can ever have: the move of God that we have come accustomed to here at the River. It is always exciting here at the River! As we follow our leaders in reaching the Harvest in the United States of America.

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The one thing I learned most of the teaching is that everything, no matter how big or small comes down to the heart. That my heart and the attitude of it is what matters most. I can do something but with the wrong motives and it not be a blessing to those around me.

It really showed me that I needed to look at myself before looking to judge others. I really had to step back and look at how I was treating people, and get my heart right. I admit that I was sitting in class like Oh! So in so, really needs to be hearing this. And the Holy Spirit totally rebuked me and said that you need to be listening for you. It smacked me hard but, I listened and took everything in. And I realize that I would have to give an account for everything I have ever done or said. That has really helped me in that I stop and think before I do or say something. That I will have to explain this to Jesus, and I could just imagine the look on His face., one of disappointment .You are one of my followers but you acted like the world and towards your brothers and sisters. And I want to do all I can to not have that look towards me.

In the readings we have been doing I really looked at Saul’s heart and how before God allowed him to be king God gave him a new heart. It showed me that when God calls you to a new thing He will give you the heart for it, but we must stay obedient to Him or our hearts will harden like Saul’s. By looking to David’s heart I see that he didn’t always do things the right way but he always had a pure heart towards God and was quick to obey. I have read the stories of Saul and David but I never looked at their hearts and heart attitude, it’s like a whole new story since Matters of the Heart class. It’s that I have a new way of thinking and its by putting my heart in line with God.

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What I have learned from this class is how the heart and mind operates and work together. Also I have learned how they can work against each other. When a decision or thought comes at you it enters you emotion part of your brain. Right there, says that you should not make a decision in an emotional state because it is responding off of memories and just fleshly emotion. All what goes through the brain goes through the free will part. There we have the decision what to do with the information. Here is where we can choose to throw out thoughts that are not lining up with the Word. All the thoughts go through a mini brain in our heart. This is where God speaks to us. It’s where His peace is. If our hearts aren’t filled with the Word of God then when thoughts come from the enemy we may not tell whether they line up with the Word. When we feed ourselves things of the world such as in movies, music, friend’s conversations, and our own raging thought life sparked by the enemy but stirred by us we are feeding our flesh and mind and allowing it to dominate over our hearts which is where God will lead us and guide us. When the mind is fed more and is stronger because we allow it, then things like stress, depression, fear, and anger start to dominate us. Then we can’t make a decision and can’t hear God’s voice that is speaking in our hearts. We only know how to respond to the emotion part of our brain and when it gets to the free will part it isn’t hearing the Word of God so we either don’t know what decision to make or make a wrong decision because we aren’t following the heart. It’s so important to feed our heart the Word of God and to follow the heart which hears God’s precious voice. When we hear our hearts instead of our mind and emotion then we will be full of God’s peace and be led in His perfect Will.

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This past January was winter camp meeting, also marking the thirtieth year of ministry for Dr. Rodney and Adonica Howard Browne. This camp meeting was amazing. The meeting were held at two and seven p.m. This alone in itself made a difference because I know in the past when we have had late meetings at night , sometimes the next morning meeting would be hard to go through. With the new times it allowed some extra rest time. Also different this year was the onsite catering. I fell was a plus to my camp meeting experience. Instead of having to hope in the car and drive somewhere to get a bite then rush back in traffic, we were able to enjoy a cooked meal in a tent set up in the parking lot. This allowed you to relax and actually get some good fellowship time in with other people. The main events were the meetings. Each meeting was powerful and life changing. For me the main area that was revealed to me was reaping and sowing. I learned more on the promises of God and how everything we do in the name in of lord there is a reward for. That every seed we plant in the name of the lord we will reap good fruit. That if we want to reap great we must be willing to sow greatly as well. The second most important point that I witnessed was healings. Persons after person was lined up for prayer with Ted Shuttlesworth. So many people were healed of deaf ears . One particular person had suffered from a thyroid complication and after receiving prayer , he said he could feel and new one being grown with in him. Hearing testimonies like this are life changing. They renew and strengthen faith. Once again another camp meeting that was filled with the glory and presence of God.