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My life has changed drastically since I have started soul winning. I started soul winning back in 2002 and it was the scariest thing I had ever done at first. I had been a member of the River at Tampa Bay since December 1996 and wasn’t really involved in soul winning and wasn’t really interested in being involved in soul winning. I loved God and everything but I didn’t understand how soul winning was vitally important to my walk with God.

Since that time I have won hundreds or thousands of people to the Lord and have seen God move miraculously in people’s lives. I do not take any credit for any of the results I have seen on the streets, but it is the Spirit of God that has worked through me, and also me being open to be used by God. I am so grateful for this ministry and the charge that Pastorsand Adonica have given us as a congregation and a challenger for all of us to go to another level in our soul winning. I believe that every believer should be winning souls and if they are not then I really wonder if they are really believers. I am very excited for what God is doing on the streets of Tampa and that I have had the privileged to be a part of changing this city one neighborhood at a time.

My husband and I have been forever changed by the soul winning and will never stop winning souls even if God moves us to another state or country. We will definitely incorporate the soul winning script in our own ministry as well. God has shown me different ways and strategies on how to win different kinds of people to the Lord, and I have seen people through the soul winning script and the compassion of God come to the Lord and their lives change forever.

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Being part of the family at the River at Tampa Bay Church has been incredible! I am so glad God called me to be here in such a time as this. God has used me to win many, many souls, and see lives changed of men, women and children. There is only one thing that matters in this life, and that is, obeying the Word of the Lord. He has commissioned us to go into the entire world and preach the Gospel to every creature. We have done it, and have seen the mighty hand of God operating in our behalf. Miracles, and healings are things we see very often, everything the Bible promises is true, you just have to approach it with child like faith.

Another thing that happens is that when you make yourself available, God will use you. You have to remain FAT that is, Faithful, Available, and Teachable. When you truly want to be used of God He will take you, mold you, do a work in you, and you will be an instrument of honor in His hand. Some time ago, I used to be fearful and maybe shy or nervous about sharing the Lord Jesus Christ with others. But when the Holy Spirit touches your life, a boldness to preach the gospel rises inside of you, and you have to, have to tell others about Jesus.

We have been going to some communities to win souls, that in the natural; I would not have gone to. But you get awareness that these people need our Lord, and that Jesus is their only hope, whether they see it or not. We have witnessed to them, even when they were rolling a joint of pot, getting drunk, etc. but the love of the Master impulses us to go. And we will keep on keeping on.

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I feel that God is using me greatly and putting the right people in my path supernaturally to witness to. I began soul winning in Washington, DC over summer 2009 as it was introduced to our church from RMI. During the Great Awakening Tour in DC, I was able to get on a microphone at a block party and get 40 persons saved. In Tampa, at a sports game there were about 300 persons there that got saved as I used the microphone. Soul winning has been so real and Luke 4:18-19 has truly come alive on the streets of many cities. It has been great just seeing the impact of what God is doing in people’s lives and seeing the fruit of the work. God gets all the glory and it’s not about us, but about the Lord, as we do His will and stay clean.

I have learned that there are so many people caught up in religion and that think out of their heads and they just need a touch of God, the anointing in their lives, His wonderful presence. When they feel God’s presence as they pray, I can see the power of God transferring into their spirits. While praying over a guy in DC, I remember laying hands on a sick man, with a pain in his stomach, and I felt fire go through the entire left side of my body and I transferred my hands onto his stomach. He could feel the power of God and was instantly healed. Since I began soul winning, God has used me to lead over 700 persons to Christ.

Recently, this past Saturday, while soul winning at USF (University South Florida) campus, there were 3 televisions being given away at the dorms from students moving out. I and 2 other guys with me were blessed with a free television each. God has set it up that there were 3 soul winners and 3 televisions being given away at that very moment. Soul winning, we are laying up treasures in heaven, and also enjoying the blessings here on earth.

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Soul winning has been an amazing experience! For years, I have always said that “souls” is the very currency of Heaven. If Jesus came to seek and save the lost and He is our example for living, then we should do what He did: seek the and save the lost! I have always said that the standard for a successful church is the amount of souls that they are saving. I could never figure out how to do it in a manner that would ensure success. It is very simple: bring them quickly to a decision about eternity without condemnation. I remember having spoken to a man about salvation and the person I was partnered with for soul winning led him to Jesus.

Then a Hispanic lady came to the door and I was able to lead her to the Lord in Spanish. As we were finishing, the man had returned and told us of a homeless man whom they had allowed to stay with them for a while. He needed to hear the gospel and we were pulled to the backyard of the home. We spoke with the man briefly and began leading him to Jesus Christ. Upon finishing, we told him of the food ministry and how he could come and get food and have something for himself. He was unsure if he would be on the bus that Sunday.

After service, I was in the foyer of the church that Sunday and a man came up to me and asked where the buses were meeting. I turned and saw the homeless man smiling. He had been in service and was blessed by the anointing of God. He continued to return for several weeks until he moved out of the area.

It is a blessing to see someone to whom you minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ come and find the presence of God in a church home that desires to build the kingdom of God and not just some castle!

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When I was younger my parents were evangelists and what they did all the time was teach people how to win souls for the kingdom of God using the soul winning script. Back then I was rebellious and didn’t really know God or have ever accepted the Holy Spirit into my Life. So a few years later I was dragged into going to Busch Gardens with the youth group at the River and since then I’ve gone to the River’s youth group, got filled with the Holy Ghost and praying in tongues.

Since then I still had trouble leading people to Christ, I just haven’t achieved that boldness from God. So after a few years, I decide to go to the River Bible Institute and River School of Worship. In the first quarter, we had a class on soul winning taught by my youth pastor. And we had a requirement to meet the goal of one hundred by the end of the quarter and 13 souls every week. And I was pretty intimidated because my entire life’s soul count was in two digits. So I had to step out of my comfort zone and step into the boldness of God. That quarter my life as a Christian changed completely, in that quarter I led about 110 people to Jesus and haven’t stopped since then. Sure there is days when I don’t lead anyone to Jesus but life comes at you hard and you have Jesus as your shield to protect you.

In ending this story, I just want to say that you have to be sold out for Jesus. Because you can’t show people the Gospel if you haven’t made it complete truth in your life. And you have to be in line with God, you can’t be half on one side and half on the other. I’ve tried that and people you talk to see on your face how your relationship is with the Lord and they won’t want to get saved by you. So make sure that you are in line with God’s word and not doing the things you know are wrong. If you endure and holdfast to the things that Jesus asks you to do, you will be rewarded for your faith in keeping to His word.

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What God did this past Sunday morning at the River Christmas outreach was absolutely amazing. I had the privilege of being a part of the bus ministry. I was able to go into the neighborhoods of people, parents, children living in poverty. One of the things that impacted me the most was the expectation level of people getting on the bus that morning. Specifically the children’s hunger and expectation level shocked me. Even before we would arrive at a stop, you could see the children running out so they wouldn’t miss the bus. I was amazed at the excitement that these people have; not just for the food boxes they were to receive, but to get on the bus, to experience the love of God.

Even when praying for people on the bus you could see the hunger and desperation in their eyes for hope.
I was able to be a helper in the Kids Church as well. Just realizing that for a lot of kids you are the only they have to who God is and knowing His love is once a week.

When I saw these people on the way home, many of them had totally changed. Their was not a person who didn’t get on the bus to go home that day that hadn’t been impacted for eternity. When you see the same people that you’ve met on the streets; the same people that you prayed with and invited to come to get on the bus to come to church; when you see those same people not only get on the bus, but get radically touched and changed, it is the greatest reward. To know that God is using me to plant seeds and not only that but also to see the harvest of souls being reaped at the same time- it’s all there is to live for. This Sunday engrained in me even more the reason Dr. Rodney Howard Browne does what he does; the reason I’m here is to carry out the Great Commission- to see lives rescued from the pit of hell and given the blessed hope of going to heaven. To see despair, depression and hopelessness, exchanged for eternal purpose and eternal hope is what I live for. It’s the only thing worth living for.

The more lives you see impacted these people it’s breaks your heart and challenges you use every moment for eternity.

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The first thing that really jumps out in my memory about the Matters of the Heat lecture was the way Pastor Adonica explained how to deal with situations and speak to circumstances. She said to think of the word of God as a court of law and say, “This is what the word says! It says I can have it! It is my right!” Then we should stamp it as a done deal! I’ve never heard it put that way. It was like a light bulb came on.
I learned a great deal about obedience and that delayed obedience is disobedience. The Holy Spirit is speaking to us all the time and we should let him guide us, but we shouldn’t just sit around and wait for him to speak. It is easier to direct something if it is already moving. We should always be sensitive and discern whether something is coming from the heart or if it is coming from some emotion. God always speaks to the heart. We should always obey and be faithful to what God is speaking to our heart because someone’s life depends on it. Matthew 16:27 says that there is a reward for what we do in obedience to the Holy Spirit. Rebellion and disobedience always have negative consequences.

Pastor Adonica also taught us that sometimes we have to let people deal with their own “can of worms”. We should not carry our own or other peoples offenses and we shouldn’t let what other people say affect us. We should not put up walls, but we should guard our heart. We also need to watch our mouth as we watch the attitude of our heart for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

These are all things I have learned from Pastor Adonica. I could still go on much further about what I gained out of her class. It was an awesome week! I hope that she will be teaching many more classes.

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Imagine going to bed hungry or even as a child waking up with nothing under you Christmas tree. Even better yet imagine a world where you feel completely unloved. This is what Dr. Rodney Howard-Brown of the River Tampa church in Tampa Fl is working against. I am not only proud to be a part of this group under Dr. Rodney but I am honored to see how many lives’s we are truly changing.
At the River Church Dr. Rodney has set up an amazing food ministry were they feed over 500 families a week with a box of food that will last them through the week. This part of the ministry is my favorite; we see people’s lives changing every day when we go out telling them about the food ministry. To see mothers eyes go from sad to happy when she realizes that she will have food for her children that week.
This past week we handed out toys to needy families and in the process of doing that we had 374 people turn their lives over to God. I unfortunately did not get to be a part of this even. However I wish I was there the testimonies of my friend about the event touched my heart so much hearing how people were crying and thanking them or how kids who just need someone to show them love got just that.
You see for me what this church is doing to reach out to families in the city of Tampa is amazing to see. How many people can say that they truly have impacted the lives of people around not only by giving those gifts but by loving them and showing them how much Jesus Christ loves them? How many people can say that they have made an impact on the people around them and know that beyond a shadow of a doubt that those people will forever be changed? This is what Dr. Rodney Howard- Brown is doing in Tampa Fl he is making a change in the lives of people in the community and the city but not just any change he is making the greatest change of all he is showing the people that he truly cares about them.

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The “Winter Campmeeting 2010” for me was one of the most powerful ones to date. The afternoons were so awesome; it would have been easy just to continue on for the evening service at 7:00 pm without breaking.

I operated the camera for the afternoon meetings and a few of the night services. We have pre-production meetings an hour before each service and a few times the joy of the Holy Ghost would hit us and all we could do was laugh. We would stagger out to the Lobby, get stuck there for a few minutes and then on to the cameras.

During the services it seemed the Holy Spirit was touching the ushers, the singers, and the camera operators. These are usually the ones that try to stay focused and they were getting blitzed. One night in particular, I believe was Thursday, all Heaven broke loose and all I can say is WOW!

A first year student named Steve was leaping all over the place and then took off in a run. I was on Camera 2 laughing so hard and yet still able to get the important shot. Joy was breaking out over the whole crowd. Steve went all the way around the building and I could see he was going to come over to where another first year student was standing. I had the camera ready for when he came and man, he hit John and they took off running and I think my tally light was on so we were capturing it. I was standing up and ready for crowd shots.

Then Pastor Rodney went after the shoulder cam guy, Braxton. He went down and Pastor grabbed the Klearcom and began to shout “Filled “into the speaker. The first time he said it, I was holding on with everything in me. Then he said it a second time; I grabbed my chair, feeling the fire inside and knowing I was losing it. I finally just let go, hit the deck and began laughing so hard.

The next night, a lady came up to me to share what happened to her husband when I hit the deck. She said her husband used to work as Control Room Engineer. He was in a wheelchair sitting real close to my camera podium. She said he knew what was going to happen when Pastor got the Klearcom. He saw me get hit with power of God and tried to get up to help me so I wouldn’t fall on the floor. LOL! When I hit the deck the power of God jumped on him and he fell out under the power of God in his wheelchair.

The meetings would go from one degree of His glory to the next. I didn’t want them to stop and many people’s lives were dramatically changed.

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Winter Camp Meeting was life changing for me. Every service left me hungrier for God, and I found myself placing a greater demand on the Anointing than ever before. Coming into the meetings, I had a lot of questions for my life that I was really struggling with; leaving me feeling spiritually weighed down. Being under the Anointing from the very first night broke that stuff off me. I felt so free in the presence of God, and I felt peace in my heart over these things that had been” looming mountains”, faded away. These seemingly giant things became nothing. My heart was filled with joy, and I experienced peace. Also during the camp meeting, I was now able to enter into worship like I hadn’t been able to in a long time, because of having all this weight on me. Free in the presence of God. Throughout the week, his became more and more evident to me, as every meeting built on the previous one. Every word that was spoken, and every song that was sung, was exactly what I needed to hear, as if they were all aimed directly at me. I learned just how to be free in the Holy Ghost, how to shut my mind off and just be in His presence. I learned that everything I need, every question that I might have, every little detail of my life that I’m trying to figure out, fades away in His presence – and that He will show me the answers I’m looking for there, in His presence. Thursday night, out of all the nights, probably sticks out the most to me. Encountering God like I never had before, being completely drunk in the Holy Ghost, and also seeing my friends, my classmates, and even Pastor Rodney under the power. That night, my roommates and I, didn’t leave the church ‘til 2:30am, because we were just soaking in the anointing. I’ve said so much about the presence of God, but that’s what this Camp Meeting was to me. A time of refreshing, a time of getting hungrier for the things of God, and getting the Word in me, so that I can touched by the fire of God and be a carrier of it to all those that I encounter. My family, my friends, my coworkers, not just those I meet on the street when I’m soul winning, but in my every day life.