Lay Liberation - Still Serving

For nearly 20 years Living Word has gone to the mission field, conducted street witnessing and organized servant evangelism and community outreach. Recently the Holy Spirit has impressed me with the fact that we aren’t tapping our full potential. The vision for outreach has been limited by what the Outreach Department can organize, lead, fund and staff.

In order to grow our influence we need to decentralize ministry. The church needs to experience what I call a ‘lay liberation movement’. In order to do that our staff must recruit, train, equip and motivate outreachers to reach out on their own.

Iraq veteran Chaplain Buddy Winn responded to an opportunity to exercise godly influence when the Crystal VFW needed a chaplain. By attending VFW functions and mingling with WWII and Vietnam era service members Buddy has earned the respect and gained an entrance into the lives of almost 700 veterans.

Chaplain Winn does none of this on his own time but in the evenings and on weekends. It’s an opportunity to influence others with God's love.

It’s homegrown and like my mom used to say "Homegrown is always better than store bought".