Free to Be Me Mentoring Program

Releasing the Glory of God Through Dance

Shirley Rozell, FTBM Graduate: Chicago IL

Sometimes in ministry we want everything that God has spoken over us right here and now, knowing that if He gave it to us we wouldn’t be able to handle the assignment. If we’d only wait on God, and not get a head of Him, then and only then, will He use us for His Glory.

After coming into the knowledge of Christ, my words were ”Lord, use me”. I have received many prophecies about how God was going to use me, and I have been used in so many ways. Last year I entered the Free To Be Me Mentoring Program. The focus of this program is to equip you in areas of proper protocol within Worship Arts Ministry and everyday life. This program helped me to see what God sees in me. My eyes were opened and my heart was changed with new revelations of God’s love for his creation.

In one year so many prophecies were revealed with newness, and my mentor Apostle Smith showed me that when I believe in myself, God will use me for His Glory. The foundation that I received as part of the mentoring program empowered and equipped me to host my own conference with excellence and authority. When I truly applied myself to my studies, I came to know and experience the heart of God and the love He has for his people. The graduation ceremony was unlike anything I had ever experienced, and the theme for graduation was “Taking the High Road”. There’s only one “high road” and it leads to Christ. In every session and class, I could feel the Lord’s presence from start to finish. I walked away from the graduation ceremony knowing that when I make a vow to the Lord I must keep it ~ true worship will cost me something.

I am healed inwardly to be Free in Christ, and the manifestation of His Word is now for my life. Jesus is the BEST thing that has ever happened to me!!! My assignment is to help other to feel the same way I do about Jesus!

June Entzminger, FTBM Graduate: Newark NJ

This mentoring program has truly been a blessing to me. It was actually life changing!

The assignments were thought provoking and challenging. The Word tells us in 2 Timothy 2:15 to study to show ourselves approved, and this course is one that will prove you. It challenged me to commit to something for one year, but it was so much more than lessons. This course forced me to focus. I had to articulate the vision for my life and write the plan for achieving that vision. But I was also challenged to revisit that vision and see how I was applying what I was learning in this course to achieving the vision.

The lessons were not only geared to ministry, but to my life in general. As a result, I am more focused, more centered, more able to articulate what is needed to achieve the vision, and more informed not only to run with it, but to bring others who would like to come along. It brought me well beyond my zone of comfort, and for that I praise God!

The vision is not only for formal ministry, but for family, employment, marriage, children, finances, and other things that are important in life. I am thankful to God for the opportunity to come through this mentoring program. The good news is that I can continue to build on the foundational teachings that were laid out during this past year, and growth continues!

Brenda McKinley, FTBM Graduate: Tulsa OK

The Free To Be Me Mentoring Program has ignited my fire to dance again. I joined the program a couple of months after the death of my father, my first immediate family member that God called home. Then in July, close to the end of the program, my brother was called home to be with Jesus also.

No, I did not stop the race but I really slowed down out of hurt, mourning and just trying to press my way through. I was like a turtle, moving slowly but not able to back up. This mentoring program has been a lifeline to my ministry. Without it I felt like I was dying on the vine and did not know how to replenish myself.

If I was not focused on my homework assignments, knowing Apostle Smith would be calling me, I would have accomplished nothing and depression would have settled in with vengeance over my soul. I had a fight on my hands and this program was one of my key weapons.

I thank God my path crossed with Apostle Smith’s, and that my attention was diverted from the death of family members. I was working like crazy to cope and trying to direct a ministry with a broken heart. The connection with my FTBM sisters has been encouraging and supporting. The assigned lessons taught me so much.

Wow, God has a way of letting you know that there is so much more to learn about Him, covenant, dance and leadership. The Word says God is faithful and I know this is true because this mentoring program came at the right time to keep me in the battle for the Lord. I am so happy that God knows my needs and supplied me with the Free To Be Me Mentoring Program. God is good!!!

Victoria Nelson, FTBM Graduate: Atlanta GA

The 2006-2007 FTBM Mentoring Program was very meaningful and enriching. It stretched me a great deal. The program helped me become more knowledgeable about the importance of the garments we wear when ministering to God. The program helped to reinforce my awareness of the importance of dancing out of relationship with God. My knowledge of proper protocol and walking in integrity have increased. The lessons helped increase my level of communication through the symbols I use in dance. I learned more about the meaning of the colors used in a dance ministry. The program caused me to try new things that I would have put off until a later date.

Apostle Smith personally helped me learn how to create a DVD. She worked with us to host our own conferences even during a time of great loss personal lose when her cousin passed on to be with God. She ministered to us with love and wisdom. The conferences we attended during the year were true encounters with God. The men and women in the mentoring program all displayed a heart to worship God. The program helped me move forward with clarity into God's will for me as a dancing evangelist. The graduation conference itself helped knit me together my FTBM sisters and brothers.

Apostle Smith is a down to earth woman. That genuinely love God and is a great teacher. I highly commend the FTBM program to anyone who wants to stretch and grow as a minister of dance.

Cheryl Raiford, FTBM Graduate: Orlando FL

As a student in the FTBM Mentoring Program, I have experienced an awesome turn-about in understanding dance ministry. In the program ~ studying, praying and preparation are key elements to showing yourself approved. Apostle Veronica never failed to make certain I understood the assigned lessons.

She made herself accessible during the program and because she did, a relationship of trustworthiness was created between us. This helped me tremendously. Why? This program is what the academic world calls “distance-learning”. Thank God, for a Christian teacher.

Soon, I will be amongst those who continue to succeed in FTBM graduates. The ministry enrichment tools taught in this program have given me insight to dance ministry, into life as well.

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