WVIW Celebration Banquet - Reserve Your Seats Now

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Worldwide Voice In the Wilderness It is almost Celebration Banquet time. September 18 will be here before we know it. I hope and pray you are making plans to be with us. Information can be found on www.wviw.com. There is limited seating, so order your tickets soon. We have included a Box in this Email titled "Buy Tickets" that will take you directly to buy your tickets online. We realize that many of you are not able to attend for a variety of reasons. But there are many wives of prisoners Also, we want to invite several state prison officials to be our guests. Each year we ask our partners to help sponsor these people. Please consider sponsoring one or more wives or prison officials at $50.00 each. Perhaps you could sponsor a table of eight for $400.00. We would like to bless these ladies and say "Thank you" to these officials. Please help us do that. Thank you for all you can do, and may God return it to you 100 fold. Your Servant, Johnny Johnny Moffitt, D.Min. Director This year, our 31st Anniversary Celebration will be Friday night, September 18, 2009 At 7:00 p.m. (Registration and Ministry Expo start at 6:00 p.m.) The banquet will be at the Marriott Quorum Hotel in Dallas/Addison, Texas. The hotel is located at 14901 Dallas Parkway, Dallas, TX 75254. Betty and I need your help! We have arranged for reduced room rates at the Marriott Quorum if you wish to stay over Friday night. Please mention Worldwide Voice in the Wilderness when you call the hotel at 972-661-2800. There is limited seating, so please order your tickets as soon as possible to help us in our planning. Again, thank you for your help, and we look forward to sharing this special evening at our 31st Anniversary Celebration of Restoration, "CHANGED", with you and your friends. FREE Book Be one of the first 10 to respond by purchasing your Banquet Tickets online and you will receive a FREEcopy of Monty Lewis' Book, "The Caper". Offer Expires: September 1st Use the Link Above to Buy Tickets TODAY!

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God will meet you right where you are

The first day of our Marriage Seminar is always the best example of how God uses everything in our lives to meet us right where we are.

Each and every single person is so different and has such a separate set of issues and challenges and yet there is an almost instant bond that occurs when the volunteers and inmate wives first meet. The second that everyone sits down and shares a meal together something happens to spark a connection that is hard to explain and impossible to manufacture. Today 37 individuals ate lunch as strangers, but will leave this weekend as friends.

Thanks to the wonderful ministry of Bethel Temple in Bryan/College Station, our volunteers and Wives had a great meal together to began this weekends journey. The church not only supplied a great space to host our first meeting today they also had beautiful place settings made for us and served each of our volunteers and wives with great enthusiasm and grace.

From there we made our way into the prison and through security and into the room where the remainder of this weekend's seminar will unfold. Friday Night is typically a flood of emotions for every single person in the room. The room quickly fills with tears of joy, laughter and smiles as each of the husbands are led to there anxiously awaiting wives. Each of the couples is allowed to greet their spouse with a hug and kiss and sit next to their wives, many for the first time since having been locked up. Each couple is used to having very limited contact, if any, with each other, and are not accustomed to sitting side by side at all.

"Ok, Fellas, Take a long good look at that pretty lady sitting next to you.....ok look back at me.....you owe me big time". Johnny Moffitt, as he introduced the team

In all seriousness, the aim of this night is to let each couple savor these moments and to allow everyone to take in the reality that this weekend will represent as many hours of time together as half a year or more in regular visitation.

As the evening progressed everyone was again able to share a meal together and sit and just talk. This is a very important time and is not rushed in any way. Every inmate is thrilled to be able to enjoy "free world" even if for only one weekend.

Someone even said; "It has been a long time since I have been full. It feels weird."

We continued with a time of worship and a time for the volunteers and Johnny and Betty to begin to share why Worldwide Voice In the Wilderness hosts, and attends these seminars.

Javier Mendoza gave a powerful testimony of how his family has broken the bondage of prison in their lives. He shared how each of the men and women have a God given responsibility and privilege to live a life of abundance and not of captivity. He also shared how his father, turned away from prison life to become the best example of a father, and a husband any one could ask for. Javier is able to share this story as a true life testimony of victory over statistics which say he is several times more likely be in prison because his father has been incarcerated. Through God's ever present grace, Javier can now stand as an example of God's glory and challenge these men to do the same in their lives.

Johnny shared from his heart and spoke straight to the hearts of the men and women. God used this special message to remind the men that HE has and always will meet us right where we are at if we will only let him. So many times we will "shift the heat" to someone else if it means saving our own skin when all God wants is for us to confess we are guilty and to accept his forgiveness. Johnny tells it like it is and always offers a refreshing dose of reality because of his genuine desire to see lives Changed.

It is safe to say, the first day in a Marriage Seminar is always fresh and never dull.

You can always count on God showing up!
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Inside the Walls, Inside the Heart

We are in Bryan/College Station this morning preparing for our third Marriage Seminar this year. We are very blessed to have such an amazing team. We have 10 Volunteer couples that have given of their time, their resources, and of their hearts. We are prepared to share ourselves with 17 other couples and along the way become friends for the sake of Love.

We all need love. We need to feel love and we need to give love. Our Marriage Seminars are all about giving and receiving Love!

Betty Moffitt, WVIW Director, says: "Above all else we are here to love these couples for 3 whole days....that's it!"

This weekend is already off to a great start and we are having a blast.

The volunteers met up last night for dinner and had a great time fellowship and prayer for this weekend. Every volunteer has great anticipation of this Seminar and great hopes for this opportunity to love. Some of our are volunteers have been to over 6 seminars in prison, and we have volunteers that are here for the very first time. Each of these volunteers is now in a situation that only a few people in the world have ever been. It is a unique and blessed opportunity to be a part of a group of people from very different backgrounds and very different situations all for God's cause. God is love, and we want God to use us in the way He sees fit. We are here to be a blessing and to be blessed as well

Please continue to pray for our efforts here in this prison and please pray and believe for God's love to be evident to each volunteer and every participant.

Thank you for being a blessing to the ministries of Worldwide Voice In the Wilderness.

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