Do You Love God With All You Have?

“Love GOD, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got!”  Deuteronomy 6:5 (The Message) In February we tend to focus on ways to express love to our sweethearts, family and friends as the valentine cards, candy, and gifts start to flow. Almost 44 years […]

Standing in the Gap

Are you willing to stand in the gap? “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have con-sumed them […]

Revolving Door

By: Elaine Altman-Eller I removed that revolving door on my heart today; the one that kept on being used in ways that were harmful to us both. I re-moved it after I read and learned through my readings that you and I were caught in a cycle that wasn’t healthy for either of us. That […]

A Word for 2014 from Sandra

We began 2013 by praying the Jabez Prayer at our planning meeting and God responded by providing an amazing office space from which to minister, enabling On Wings to reach more children with the shoe box outreach, bringing more struggling families, opening the door to teach in the youth detention center, and expanding our out-reach […]

JUST RIGHT (The Road From Addiction to Redemption)

Barbara Bice was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. She and her husband moved to We-tumpka, Alabama in the early eighties, where they continue to reside today. They have three sons, three daughters-in-law (like daughters to them) and four grandchildren. Barbara recently retired as a paralegal from a local law office after working thirty-five years […]

Praying Prodigals Home by Quin Sherrer and Ruthanne Garlock

These authors have both kept a light in the window for the return of prodigal children. But they did not wait passively, helplessly wringing their hands, paralyzed by fear and despair. Instead, they battle for their children in prayer and trusting that, ultimately, almighty God would intervene, returning the prodigals to their parents’ arms. The […]

A Visit to the Youth Detention Center

Last month, several volunteers from OWLAD were privileged to go to our local youth detention center. We had been the month before and because another group could not go in October, we were offered the chance again.

Face to Face with the Enemy

Seven years ago God called me into ministry to prodigals and their families with the passage in Isaiah 42: 6-7, “I, the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles [Prodigals], to open […]