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Destined To Win Ministry Team
Kim Conover - Personal Assistant
Since joining the staff at DTW Ministries, I have witnessed incredible restorations, healings and deliverances in people form all walks of life. The ministry team’s devotion to setting people free through the authority of the Cross is relentless. Daily prayers are offered for the restoration of peace, health, purpose, and spiritual and natural prosperity for marriages and ministries. The whole team endeavor’s to reveal the depths of God’s love to everyone they meet. And they are eager to help those who struggle or feel lost in their walk, as I did when I first hooked up with them; DTW is a true lighthouse for the lost to find their way back to Him. The bible studies are life changing. The teachings here bring such clarity to the nature of God that you can’t help but be awed and grateful for all He is and all He’s done. Anyone who wants to know God intimately and find their purpose in Him can be assured this ministry will encourage and inspire them in their pursuit. I am grateful that God has called me to be a part of It., thanks DTW
Maria Del Rocio Florez - Crusade Coordinator
At a very young age I was introduced to Christianity and started to follow its teachings, and during these early years a great love for Jesus was starting to grow within my heart. I began to seek for a way to serve Him which led me to become lawyer. This allowed me to serve people in crisis and at the same time share my faith with people in need. I served as a lawyer for more than 15 years in my native country of Columbia.
And as I matured in years Christ grew in my heart. Every year a greater passion overwhelmed me to become more involved in evangelism, until one day I gave my profession to God and told him being a lawyer and his assistant was not working for me. So I gave up my profession along with my husband, who was a structural engineer, and I left Columbia for the USA. The Lord brought my husband and I and our three children to this great nation. We witnessed His powerful hand shaping our lives, by His mercy and His grace as he settled us in south Florida where we both served in a very rapid growing ministry. The trials were tremendous. At first I was hit with cancer and given a death sentence. It can only be likened to Daniel having to go down into the lions den. Not long after being told I had cancer another tragedy hit. I lost my husband and father of my children. I did not think I could recover as the grief overwhelmed our family when something even greater hit our family. The church we loved and served said the wave of disaster that had hit our family was my fault.
It was at this time God brought the children and I to Destined to Win and I met Dr. Wayne & Angela Gwilliam. It was from there that Christ led me into victory by showing me, through the ministry at Destined to Win, that the scars He bore on the cross of Calvary were all our family needed to make it.
With Destined to Win God began to heal and restore our life through the love that surpasses all understanding which is the core message at Destined to Win. A message that has truly became my message. And as one of the ministry team I have had the privilege to take this message to the many I have found by the roadside of life. And I have witnessed the same healing to them that came to me and my children’s lives.
In His service
Pastor: Maria Del Rocio Florez
David Spradling
Born to Christian parents and raised in church, my life took a major turn when my parents divorced. It was not supposed to happen, but it did, and I became very confused concerning Christian values. Both my parents were good people. How could this happen? My dad was called to the ministry but chose business over ministry. This left me even more confused mainly because, at a young age when I attended a church camp, I also felt called to the ministry. After the divorce I turned away from the church and God as I knew Him for many years.
Eventually I came back to the Lord and made a decision to pursue the ministry call on my life. I was 27 years old at the time I decided to do this but my wife never married a preacher and she filed for divorce. This spun me out again for several years. So I turned to business rather than ministry. Even though I never really walked away, this time I mixed my Christianity with drugs and alcohol until 1989 when I made a decision to start living for Him as a person should. In 2002 I attended Victory Bible School in Tulsa in an attempt to pursue my destiny with the Lord. After that I went to the River Bible School in Tampa and sat under Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne where I learned a great deal. It was just after I graduated that I met Dr. Wayne C. Gwilliam of Destined to Win Ministries and he has been working with me in helping me overcome some of the things that have been a problem for my life in personal relationships. At the same time he and some of the ministers he works with are helping me develop the ministry gift on my life. Whenever I am not ministering in my own crusades I travel with the Destined to Win team teaching street evangelism and I help with the setting up of the tent crusades.
Johnathan Mayse
Johnathan was sentenced to ten years jail for violence and drug dealing, the price he was ordered to pay society for the lifestyle he had led up to his capture. However in the first year of his sentence Jonathon found Jesus as his savior. This experience led him to build a relationship with Chaplin Briggs who helped mentor Jonathon into Christianity who in turn would become one of her assistants within the prison ministry. After serving five years Jonathon was paroled and Chaplin Briggs referred Jonathon to Dr. Wayne C. Gwilliam to complete his ministry training. Jonathon is now on staff with Destined To Win and plays a key role in supervision to the fresh start program. He has earned the respect of all his peers and those he pastors within the fresh start program.
At the age of three Jesse’s mother separated from his father because of the mental and physical abuse that he afflicted upon her. She took her five children and moved from Miami to Fort Lauderdale, FL and there is where Jesse encountered Jesus Christ. As a young child he asked God to bring his mother and dad back together again but that never happened in the time that he thought it should. The separation of being away from his father left a deep void and hurt that no child should have to bear. So at the age of five he dedicated his life to Jesus and asked God to raise him and to be a father to him. He cleaved to Him the best way that he knew how during his childhood years. God would always show him that He was there by giving him dreams and protecting him during the night hours. He helped him overcome many childhood fears. He also showed him how strong He was making him. He taught him so much as a child.
Jesse wasn’t a great son to Him growing up, rebellious at times, but he sure did love his Father. He always made sure that he was well cared for during his childhood. As an adolescent he had a strong love for his Father but like most adolescents he began to shy away from Him wanting his own way. As a result, many things in his life began to suffer. For example, his grades began to slip, his relationship with his family began to deteriorate and he started to sink into depression. Eventually he grew weary of doing his own thing and decided to rededicate his life to Christ because the decisions he was making at the time were ruining not only his life but the life of others around him. As he began to seek Jesus once again, to know Him more intimately, things began to improve. His grades got better; the relationships with his family and people around him were healed. Then one day after fasting to get closer to Jesus, God spoke to Jesse. That encounter at the age of sixteen changed his life dramatically, He called him His servant!!?? He didn’t fully understand what that meant and was determined to find out what his purpose would be. In 2003, at the age of eighteen, Jesus placed him under the tutelage and covering of Dr. Wayne C. Gwilliam. Under Pastor Wayne’s covering Jesse’s relationship with Jesus grew leaps and bounds. That same year he moved into the Discipleship House, a program geared toward helping men and woman fulfill the dreams and goals that God has placed inside of them. This program enabled those who were willing to dig deep on the inside and deal with certain matters that hindered their personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He went through nine months of training there. Though he didn’t complete the course in its entirety he had learned enough to reach a level of success in his life that he wouldn’t have achieved without the systematic discipline he was taught in the Discipleship House. He moved back in with his parents, got a great job at a call center and quickly moved up the ranks. He was making good money and the Lord was continuing to bless him.
Jesse knew God’s precious mercy and wanted to give back to Him by giving himself to the Discipleship house once more. This time, though, as part of the staff there he is helping those in the house to apply the principles they are learning to their lives and he is reaching out to the community surrounding the home to reveal God’s goodness to everyone he can.
Russell and Donna Cunningham were tent managers for a ministry called Outreach Australia which was founded by Pastor Kevin Wilcock in Australia. They travelled with the tent, (originally owned by Chris Harvey who was trained by Dr Wayne C Gwilliam), for six years. During this time they saw Jesus performing miracles on many different levels, meeting people's needs with His grace and Love.
They are currently completing Bible College through Destined to Win Ministries which is a precious gift to them from Dr Wayne C Gwilliam.
Russell and Donna now preside in a church in Australia called, Contemporary Christian Centre pastored by Pastor Ben Woods. They are also a part of Dr Wayne C Gwilliam's Destined to Win team developing daily devotionals for our website.
Xavier A. Baez is a former gang leader from Miami, Florida. At the age of nine years old, he was introduced to gang life. On his 14th birthday while walking outside his apartment complex, a rival gang noticed him and began to have a dispute. Across the street an allied gang member came to Xavier’s aid and shot the rival gang member on his face. That day Xavier witnessed the true violence of gang life. At the age of 15, he took leadership for the 2nd chapter of the gang called “Bloods” in Miami, Florida.
Introduced to Jesus Christ at the lowest level in Xavier's life, was the best "Life-Saver" he has encountered. He has been saved since 1998 and has been involved in outreach ministry since 2001. The Lord has used Xavier Baez to preach at churches, conferences, camp meetings, and outreach operations like; Low-rider Shows, Chopper Shows, & Music Festivals to bring the lost to Jesus Christ. In 2007 at the age of 26, he was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel and founded the I.D.D. Family Ministries. That same year he also founded the I.D.D. Family Institute, an agency to assist high-risk juveniles involved in gangs, teen pregnancy, domestic violence, and drug addiction. Xavier A. Baez is married to his lovely wife Mercy Baez, and has one gorgeous son Xavier Matthew Baez.