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Sandra Day O'Connor said, "We don't accomplish anything in this world
alone...and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life
and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates
something."
I
give God all the glory for www.traintracts.com and I thank Him for giving me the
grace, the strength, the wisdom, the perseverance, the anointing, and everything
else to create the train tracts and this website for His glory. From April 2002 when I had the vision, of the ocean with the
lost waiting on the shore, until now there have
been so many people, or many individual threads, that have impacted my life to help me fulfill God’s dream
to motivate and inspire Christians to start witnessing through creating
www.traintracts.com. I
thank them all so much. This
website started out as the book:
I Want to Witness, But What Do I Say?
It was not until August 2007 that God told me to re-format the whole book
or all the object evangelism icebreakers into train tracts.
I was going to publish the book, but then God prompted me to turn it all
into train tracts and after that He told me to create this website. I
may still publish the book, but the following people were there for me or
inspired me, motivated me, encouraged me in some way and thus, helped me get me
get www.traintracts.com up and going for God's glory. And I thank them
all. You will have a part in the harvest!
First of all, thank you Jayne
Bowman for being my friend and for walking through the wilderness and over so
many obstacles with me. (She is my best
friend that I met when we both went to Jamaica on a missions trip in
2002). We are both ministers and we encourage each other in
our ministries and make sure that we take time out to just have fun!)
Jayne, you are
such a treasure. You are such a gift to
me. I am believing God
with you for the money and the land for your ministry, Real Soulutions,
to rise up to a new level in healing people’s lives. See
www.real-soulutions.com
Thank you Kellye Gray and Saundra Bixler for being my
friends and for encouraging me. Saundra,
you are such a comfort and such an inspiring encouragement to me. Thanks
for being there for me and for everything you have done for me. Thank you
Angie Alderman for your encouragement. Thank you Carmen Brown for
letting me be a part of singing praise and worship at the Cancer Treatment
Center.
Thank you Pastor Joel Osteen for reading over my manuscript
and encouraging me and praying for me. It really meant a lot to me when I
met you in Tulsa when I was at such a low point in May 2007. Yes, I am
trusting in God and purposefully living My Best Life Now.
See Joel
Osteen testimony and picture
Thank you Joyce
Meyer for being my spiritual Mom. My
real mom was named “Joyce” too, but Joyce H. Mulford, died of bone cancer
Jan. 5, 1994 when I was only 24 years old. God has used you countless times “to mother me” and grow
me up in Christ. I have listened to
over 25 tape series and have read 30 of your books! I
watch you everyday. If
if were not for you and your awesome teachings, I don't think that I would have
much character at all! I thank you and your husband Dave for obeying God and for helping me to
become all that God has called me to be for His glory.
May the fruit from this website be credited to your heavenly account as
well. www.joycemeyer.org
Thank you Rev. Craig Hagin for your anointed teaching at Healing School
in April 2005 that brought resurrection hope to my soul as you “read my
mail” after being so brokenhearted. God
used you to pour encouragement and faith into my spirit that I needed to make it
through my trials. Thank you
Pastors Kenneth and Lynette Hagin, Jr. and the associate pastors at RHEMA Bible
Church for all the anointed “faith-filled” messages that encouraged me, like
Pastor Hagin’s messages: “I
shall not be defeated and I will not quit.”
Those tenacious messages encouraged me to keep writing this book/website and to “have
faith” for it to be published for His glory.
Thank you Pastor Gary Crowl, Pastors Bill & Lorena Ray; Pastor Marvin
Yoder, Pastors Rick & Cindy Fern, and Pastors Jay and Tammy Hoskins.
www.rhema.org Thank you
Pastor Jay for reading the manuscript and for encouraging me. Thank
You Pastor Bill Ray for your encouragement and your faith-filled uplifting
messages. It really means a lot to me because back in 2005 (as you know) I
was in tears from being so discouraged, but look what the Lord has
done! I tell you the truth, if it were not for you all, this book/website would
not have come forth. For
information on how you can attend the best Bible School in the world:
www.rbtc.org
Also I wanted to thank all the people that I gave a “prayer bookmark”
to back in 2005 who actually took the time to pray for me.
There are too many people to mention.
I just so appreciate your prayers. May
the harvest from this book be credited to your heavenly account as well.
Thank you Danny Boyd, Daniel Daily and Lori Haider, who were
understanding of my need to step out of RHEMA’s Street Evangelism Outreaches
in 2006 and 2007, so that I could have time to work on this book.
Thank you Danny Boyd and Daniel Daily for your encouragement. May your ministry increase and grow and spread like peanut butter on
bread.
Lori Haider, I praise God for your awesome work for the Lord in
leading the Evangelism Outreach at RHEMA. Multitudes have been saved
because of your obedience to serve the Lord. Oh how I pray that God will
reward you, even while on earth. Thank you, Aaron, as well for your
unwavering encouragement and support.
Thank you Cindy Hansen for starting "TheWriter's
Bloc" at RHEMA Bible Church and thanks to all the Writer's Bloc members
there who encouraged me to write and get this book done - I Want to
Witness, But What Do I Say? Thank you Shirley Ledford for
praying for my back to be healed in Nov. 2007 when I was in such debilitating
pain. I got the joy of the Lord and the pain left as well. I got
healed!
Thank you Jenn, who worked at Mardels’s Bookstore and bought me Ruth
Graham Lotz’ book, Why?
Trusting God When You Don’t Understand
at a crucial time in my life in March 2005.
I thank you, Ruth Graham Lotz, for writing this comforting, resurrecting,
hope-filled book. It was a
lifesaver. If
you are in Charlotte, NC you should go see the Billy Graham Library.
www.billygraham.org
Thank you Bill Shepherd, who was President of the Full Gospel
Businessmen’s Fellowship, for being there for me when I received the left foot
of fellowship from a judgmental pastor who believed the false accusations about
me. Thank you for encouraging me
again and again to
“forgive everyone of everything.”
And thank you for teaching me so much about street evangelism.
You were an amazing mentor in my life in 2002 through 2004.
Thank you for teaching me the phrase that you will see so often in this
book: “Do you know how much
Jesus loves you?” and thank you for encouraging me to prophesy on the
streets. Thank you for allowing me
and encouraging me to sing prophetically over so many important political people to impact them for
God’s glory as well. May the
blessings of God overtake you and your wife Melissa.
Thank you Bill LaFortune (former Mayor of Tulsa) who complimented me
with: “You have a beautiful singing voice” after I prophesied over him at a
Full Gospel Men's Fellowship meeting two weeks after a pastor told me that
I did not have a good voice and so I should not sing at all. That
perfectly timed encouragement restored me and greatly encouraged me.
Thank you Craig and Kris Weston for inviting me to your home and for being a part of
your fellowship a few times. While at your house, the Lord showed me that I was not "the only
one" that had experienced hurts and heartaches from this particular church
and that I was not alone! Realizing this was the key that really helped me
put the past behind me and move forward. That was an incredible healing blessing
in my life. Thank you for encouraging me to release the word and prophesy over
your son. Thank you for appreciating the word and for accepting me and blessing
me. Thank you so much.
Thank you Jonathan Paolercio for allowing me to teach that Young Adult
evangelism cell group class: “ I Want to Witness But What Do I Say to:
Mormons, Muslims, Jewish people, Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists…etc.” on
Sunday mornings at Victory Christian Center.
Thank you also for allowing me to start the evangelism cell group
outreach at the mall in your V-12. Thanks
to Jayne Bowman, Daniel Streeter, Stan Johnson, Rose Turley, Paul Sallee,
Kristen McClure and Chevon Paul who participated in that outreach back in April
2003 - Feb. 2004. Jonathan, I thank
you for believing in me because teaching that class and doing the evangelism
cell group at the mall planted the seeds in my heart that have come to fruition
in this book/website. May all that be
credited to your heavenly account. Thanks
for your encouragement. May your
ministry to the nations increase and prosper at
www.preciouspeople.org
Thank you Oral and Richard Roberts for both being obedient to the Lord's
vision to be a light in the darkness, “where His voice is heard small” and
to bring the healing power of God to the nations.
Oral, the vision that you had of “Jesus
is coming soon, but the Church is not ready,” in 2004 really inspired me that
I had to obey God and write this book and get it published.
Thank you both for persevering through the hard times and for not giving
up. The suffering cannot be
compared to the glory that has been and shall be revealed through your ministry
(Rom 8:18). See: www.orm.cc. I thank
all the Oral Roberts Ministries prayer partners who do not even know who I am,
(the ALPG prayer partners give all the glory to God and thus, do no give out
their names), but said that after I prayed an anointed prayer over them, that they would pray
for me and my family in return. I thank you for your prayers. I am looking forward to meeting you all in heaven.
Thank you Don Ailsworth, my supervisor at the Abundant Life Prayer Group (ALPG)
at Oral Roberts University, who encouraged me to share an “evangelism
object” every day in our devotions and for encouraging me to sing at the
Christmas party in 2006. May you
and your wife, Monalisa be blessed and may your ministry prosper.
www.ailsworthministries.org.
Thank You Raymond Forbes (Ass't Supv) for your mercy and loving kindness towards
me at the ALPG. May you and your wife Sandra's ministry prosper in
Jamaica! Thank you Pastor Bill Bell, my
supervisor when I worked the 2nd shift at the ALPG, and his wife
Kathy, for being so loving and kind when I literally walked through the
trial of not having a car during four cold winter months in 2004-2005.
Thank you Teresa Webster, Julianna Morris, Subrina Chandler & Josie
Hampton and other kind prayer partners that drove me home after work! Thank you
Liz Ward for being my friend and listening to me and cheering me up and
comforting me after some real heart breaking trials. Thank
you Joy Jones for your encouragement and all the bagels! Thank you Inez
Cheatham for being such an awesome encouragement to me and for praying those
fiery prophetic prayers for me. I am believing God with you for your
ministry to go forward as well.
**** A Special Thank you to Jerry Nelsestuen for encouraging
me and reading all of the first versions of the tracts that I wrote.
I said, "Jerry, these tracts are for Christians, not to give away to
the lost, but to train them. The Christians are supposed to
keep them and use them." Jerry replied, "So they are like
"train tracts." I exclaimed: "YES! They are
like "train tracts!" and we both laughed. So in that one
conversation, the name "train tracts" was born! Jerry,
thank you so much! And thank you for telling me that I needed pictures on
them too. They do look better with pictures on them. Thank you so
much Jerry for your anointed input and for the other blessings from you and your
wife as well.
Thank you Daniel Mount for telling me:
“You should have a way to tell the Gospel with coffee because everyone
drinks coffee…” So I made a train
tract for coffee! Thank you Gary
Barhydt for encouraging me so many times in 2006 and for telling me to put away
distractions, stay focused and work on this book. You are such a blessing.
Thank you Pastors Billy Joe and Sharon Daugherty of Victory Christian
Center for giving me a heart for the nations and a heart for evangelism when I
went there from Aug. 1995 - Jan. 1999 and then again from April 2002 until March
2005. Thank
you for encouraging your members to witness to the lost and in church to “prophesy to your neighbor.”
There are so many seeds that you have planted in my life. There is too much to
tell. Thank you for not being afraid of what people think and encouraging
those struggling with homosexuality that they can be set free.
Thank you Pastor Sharon for all of your anointed praise and worship songs
that always encouraged me. I have all your worship CD's and like the "Catch
the Fire" one the best. Thank you for writing your book - What
Guys See that Girls Don't - or Do They? that encourages women to walk
in holiness. You two
have tremendously impacted my life so much and I love you both.
www.victory.com
Thank you John and Lisa Bevere for your ministry and your anointed
inspiring books of which most of them I have read.
John, thank you most of all for The Bait of Satan and How
to Respond When You Feel Mistreated.
Those books got me
through some of the toughest times in my life. www.johnbevere.org
You both have impacted my life is such an awesome way and I thank you so
much. I give honor where honor is due - It is so much due to you.
Thank
you Rev. Curry and Dawn Blake, overseers of John G. Lake Ministries,
for
ordaining me as a minister in 2001. Thank
you both for believing in me and for being supportive of my prophetic gifting.
May your ministry increase and prosper. Curry, you are the real
deal. Through you God has healed thousands of people and four you have
raised from the dead (maybe more). Then God has even multiplied
that number by the number of people you have trained to heal others. And I am
one of them. Thank you for obeying God and giving your all to the
Lord. For incredibly anointed teaching on how to minister healing to the
sick go to: www.jglm.org
Dawn, you are such a blessing, an encouraging friend, an anointed warrior and
woman of God. I am so thankful that you survived one of the worst attacks
of the enemy and you are still here marching for the Lord. Take it easy
and remember Matt. 11:28-30.
Thank you Terry MacAlmon for your anointed praise and worship music. When
I complained in my heart to God for not sending “Mr. Right” yet into my life
in 2006, your songs reminded me: “He is Worthy” and helped me to
“Surrender All” and trust in Him and continue working on this book.
Thank you Darlene Zschech of Hillsongs for your anointed songs that kept
me encouraged and walking in obedience to God as well. Thank you Wes
Edwards for your anointed CD. You really have anointed talent.
May God increase and expand your ministry.
Thank you Pastors
Jim and Tondi Curtis of Tulsa Harvest Church for your personal encouragement
and prayers for me. Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for your FIRE vision:
the Father’s Love, Intimacy with Him, Restoring
broken hearts and Experiencing the Presence of God.
Your church and the prophetic words that come forth from there and from
the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship students helped me through the most
painful part of “birthing this baby.” www.tulsaharvestchurch.org
Thank you Rick and Anita Manganaro, the associate pastors, for all of
your awesome inspiring sermon messages. Thank you for your joy and funny
take on life. Thank
you Victor Young for your prophetic encouragement. Thank you Jody Allen
and later, David Paulkey for the anointed praise and worship that
comforted me and encouraged me and lifted me so many times so that I could persevere and endure and reach the finish line of birthing
this vision in this website. Thank you John and Carol Arnott for the
awesome blessing of the Toronto Blessing that has so abundantly blessed
me! Thank you Esther and Jonathan Graehm from England for your many
prophetic prayers and prophetic encouragement. Thank you Allen Johnson
for helping me with web tech support on this website and thank you Sharon
Johnson for encouraging me and allowing me to sing and participate in
preaching to the Homeless downtown in the "Crest of Hearts"
outreaches. Thank you to all the people at Tulsa Harvest Church!
Thank you Ruth and Tom Ketchum for your
prophetic encouragement as well. Ruth, your prophetic words are made this heart dance. The crushed yellow rose has
indeed been watered by my tears and has grown again to bloom for the glory of
God. Thank you Judy
Hall for the prophetic word about the lily that was slowly moving to the forefront
with wings to fly.
Thank you John Hardacre for fixing my central heat
this past winter in late January 2008. That was an incredible blessing
because I was so cold. May God bless you back and your
wife back abundantly for that.
Special Thanks to the super kindness of John Morlock
who gave me his domain: www.traintracts.com. If it were not
for him, www.traintracts.com
would not have been possible. (I would have had to use:
traintracts.org instead). But when I contacted John by phone and
told him my story, he was moved by the Lord to give the domain name to me and we
transferred it over into my name. Thank you John!
Thank you George Clark for the awesome upgrade on my
computer. Without the added memory, there is no way that this website
would have been possible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
you! I thank my brother David Mulford for the software Frontpage
2000 that enabled me to create this website Without you two, this website would not
be possible!! Thank you Allen Johnson for helping me with web tech
support on this website and thank you Sharon Johnson for allowing me to sing and
participate in preaching to the Homeless downtown in the "Crest of
Hearts" outreaches.
Thank you Milo Reno of Loaves and Fishes for
inviting me to preach and share my train tracts. Thank you Marion Reno, his
wife, as well for your encouragement: "This is so
refreshing!" Even though I was tired, you both greatly encouraged me
that day.
Thank you Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne and Adonica.
Your ministry has always encouraged me, especially after my Mom died of
cancer in Jan. 5, 1994. In Sept. 1993 when you came to RHEMA Bible
Church, the joy of the Lord that filled me during those meetings pulled me through the grief
and sorrow and gave me great comfort and helped me to go on and serve the Lord. Thanks for your obedience to come
to America and for your inspiration even now. You are doing such an
awesome Revival work for the Lord at www.revival.com
Thank you Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort for
your TV series, The Way of the Master. It encouraged
me so much! Their ministry is just totally awesome. I like the way they
use the Law to help people see and understand that we are all sinners in need of
a savior. We have all sinned. We have all told a lie, stolen
something (even small), lusted after a woman or a man, took God's name in
vain, not honored our mother or father, etc. We have all broken
God's Ten Commandments and we all deserve to go to hell - all of us.
Hell's best kept secret is to keep people from really understanding that they
are sinners in need a savior. The devil wants everyone to believe that
they will make it into heaven because they are a "good person" or
being a Christian is so you can have "a better life" with more joy and
peace and to prosper you and to be healed, which makes it easy to backslide when
everything is going well for you. Let's not forget the truth that
being a Christian means your sins are forgiven and you are saved
from going to HELL!! You are saved from the wrath that is to come. That
should be your motive for wanting to become a Christian and live for Him all of
your days because Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross. We all
need to be so thankful for His merciful kindness in suffering for us and taking
the wrath of God for our sins upon Himself. We should love Him for
that. If it were not for Jesus, all of us would go to hell. So after
watching their awesome TV show, at first I thought, what else do I have to say?
But one
time, I heard Ray Comfort say on TV one day: "In witnessing,
the most difficult thing that I have is the transition."
So that encouraged me to keep creating the train tracts! Thank you Ray
Comfort!
Thank you Karin Daniels who blessed me with her brother
Edward John’s CD (Find Me Guilty) from Norway.
Thank you Edward John. Your songs encouraged me a lot, especially the
songs:
“Time to Give” and "I Don't Care" and "Adore" and
"Worship You" and even "High on Love." Yes, I am high on
love...well, I
could go on and on. You are a gold
jewel in my crown or a gold thread in this tapestry. I also so greatly appreciated
your DVD's on Fearless Living that helped me overcome the fears
of stepping out of my box and pushing this website forward. www.edwardjohn.com
Prov. 3:5-6 and 1 Peter 5:7. I love the beautiful layout of your new
book - Fearless Living. The pictures add meaning and
bring the book alive. The words within set me FREE to be me!
It instilled in me a deeper commitment to not live for the praise of man or for
the honor of man, but to obey God and live for the praise of God and for
His honor all of my days...and to trust Him more. Thank you for EJ
Touch. It means so much.
Thank you Pastor Willie
George for your anointed preaching that has uplifted me so many times. I especially appreciated your series on
"Profit is not a Dirty Word" and "the Shield of Faith" and
"Our Heavenly Father" and the "Holiness and Purity" series
and so many other messages too numerous to mention. It is always
good. Thank you thank you Andy Chrisman for your anointed praise
and worship songs that lifted me so many times while working on this website.
Thank you for the song: “We
Will Not Be Silent.” www.churchonthemove.com
Thank you Pastor Craig Groeschell for your anointed preaching
especially "The Warrior" series and on "Habakkuk"
It strengthened me to continue
to fight against the many obstacles while I was in the valley or in "the
dip" to get this website up and going. You
can watch his messages online at www.lifechurch.tv
Thank you to all these Victory Bible Institute grads who
helped me get my '98 teal green chevrolet cavalier car up and running again - Brain Ohse, who put a new starter in
my car and then also a new battery on 7-20-'08. Thank you Rodney for
giving me your mechanical advice, when I got stranded at AutoZone, that it was
really the alternator. Thank you most of all the Kevin
Waita (from Kenya) who trusted me and let me borrow his car so I could
get to work and who put in a new alternator for me! What a victory that
was when Kevin Waita and Teddy drove my newly repaired and
improved car back home on 7-22-'08! Thank you mighty men of God!
****At Brian's request, these are my "prayer for
new car specifics" - I am officially believing God for a maroon/red
chevrolet cavalier with ac/heat and a CD player and a tape player
that is less than 5 years old with no car payment and low miles.
Thank you Billye Brim for the book - The Blood and
the Glory. That book has saved from from a lot of demonic
attack. Thank You Pastor Mark Hankins for your book - The Bloodline
of a Champion. I love the confessions and the songs
the way it is so clearly written. Thank you yielding to God at Campmeeting
'08 at RHEMA Bible Church. As the joy of the Lord filled me up to overflowing, I
did no thinking and a lot of drinking (in the Holy Ghost)! and received and
awesome refreshing in the JOY of the Lord. Thank you so much. I so
needed that refreshing.
Thank you Mary Summer for "throwing the
confetti!!" to celebrate my Grand Opening and for the DVD player and for
letting me borrow your digital camera and for being so supportive and
encouraging along the way. May your husband, James, and your cat, Edward,
and your baby, Jonathan, be so totally blessed!!
Thank You Pastor Keith Moore and your wonderful
staff at Moore Life Ministries for sending me you music CD - Peace of
God. It has helped me sleep so peacefully. I remember how you were
my teacher for four classes at RHEMA (and you gave me an "A" for
teacher's lab too!) and I remember how blessed I was by your anointed
teaching Healing School at RHEMA back in 1994 and 1995 when I was grieving the
loss of my mother. Your praise and worship lifted me then and it is still
lifting me now. You keep going from glory to glory. Thank you so
much for obeying God and serving the Lord. Those songs are such a
blessing!
All these people have greatly inspired and encouraged me in some way from April 2002
until now and thus, they have all helped me in getting this Train Tracts website up
and going for the glory of God. Please
pray that God will bless them back abundantly.
 
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