Submitted: Becky DeWitt Pastor Veryl Howard is Woman of God who ministers nationally and internationally. Her work in the Body of Christ is very diverse as she is the founder of On a Mission For Christ International Ministries, Hand to Hand Global Ministry, and Faith Management & Talent Casting. She is known to many as one of the most sought after managers and pro-moters in the world of Gospel music. God opened a door and granted favor to interview this awesome gift to the Body of Christ. Pastor Veryl is a well-traveled ambassador for Christ. Her global work in ministry lists nations such as Guyana, Bermuda, Aruba, Trinidad, Israel, Benin/Kenya/Nairobi, Zimbabwe, Poland, Germany, Antigua, Amsterdam, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Surinam, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Dominica, Petite Martinique and Grenada to name a few. One of the statements in Pastor Veryl’s bio release is “that the church is engrossed in religion and not relationship that the outreach ministry has dissipated.” In our conversation with Pastor V. (what she likes to be called), she shared more insight on the statement. “ The Hand to Hand Global Ministry is an outreach ministry with other pastors and apostles to provide assistance to people who are in need. This is done with an apostolic anointing to reach the total person. We don’t just want to go in preaching to them. We try to see what their needs are and try to take a multifaceted approach to better the whole individual. Because if people can’t eat, or don’t have proper drinking water, shoes, soap, and basic essentials; it is kind of hard to sit there and talk to them about Jesus especially when they don’t know where their next meal is coming from.” She also states, “It is because the Body of Christ has become so consumed with the four wall of the church. How we can continuously build within the four walls but not necessarily build with the plan of God and build with the ideology of man? God gave a plan. In the Old Testament, when the tabernacle was being build, God gave the plan to Moses and strategically picked the workmen and they were given strict instruction from the laying of the curtains to the placement of the silver. Some of us in the Body of Christ have gotten off the instructions of Christ. We have decided to take the plan into our hands from our own mindset. So God is not running a lot of churches any more. The emphasis is on how big my church is, how fashionable I am, or how bad the choir can sing. The emphasis is not functioning under the five-fold ministry. It is very crucial when you start losing salvation elements with respect tot the house of 3 God. It becomes a handicap house. The outreach component is crucial. Jesus told us to go out and get His lost sheep. If we are sitting in the four wall every Sunday and getting full and we are not going our spreading what God has put inside us, then we are not doing what God has called us to do, which is to make disciples. We have to get out of the selfish mode, a me mode, an I mode and an individualistic mode. We have to move into a Kingdom mindset. If my brother or sister is suffering right next door to me and they are a part of the Kingdom, it affects me because we are all citizens of the Kingdom. I can’t ignore or negate the fact that my brother or sister is suffering as well. We have to get back to the foundations. We have to get the love back into church.” Pastor V. is a published author of two books with uncommon titles. Even her website for the books is uncommon - http://www.havesumfaith.com. Her first book, God Hears A Teacher Cry, is about teaching from a spiritual perspective. “The Lord started dealing with my about the trials and issues and stuff that our young people go through. It is so magnified as the enemy has loosed a death assignment on our young people. If they got a hold of who Jesus is and get on fire, there would not be anything that you cannot do with them. God told me to write about the spiritual issue that our young people were faced with in today’s society. I was also to address the issues that the teachers are faced with. God told me that I could not teach like a regular teacher. I had to teach in the spirit. I had to be sensitive and be God’s teacher. I was crying out to God because I taught in the hood; where kids were carrying guns and knives, lived in conditions where there were twelve people in a one bedroom, were in jail for murder and came to class with an ankle brace-let on Monday. There was one student who showed up at my house because he was tired of the shootings that were in front his house all the time. One of my students’ water broke. The Lord told me to write the book in a way that the students, parents, and teachers would be encouraged and really understand this warfare. I think that the book was written prematurely be-cause it was before Colorado and Connecticut. But God had been speaking to me way before about the spiritual warfare and death assignment on our young people.” Pastor V’s most recent book, God Is My Ticket Out Of The Ghetto, was birthed out of her own disappointments from having a sectional mindset when God is unlimited in His existence. “ God told me that my mindset was microscopic and that I had put Him in the box. He was limit-less, eternal and infinite and I tried to make Him finite. I functioned too much in
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