2012 Living Free Women's Conference

Are you LIVING FREE from WORRY, fear, anxiety, GUILT, bitterness, anger, DEPRESSION? Do you long for LOVE, JOY & PEACE to be the trademark of your life?

Come join JENNY SPEED and women from all over the US and Canada on their quest to finding freedom from the negative emotions that often plague us as women.


Sessions included : 
Living Free from the emotions that destroy us -  Jenny Speed
 Over Coming the lies of the enemy - Jenny Speed
Healing through forgiving - Jane Alvaranga
Gratefulness, the key to Joy -  Judy Pittman
Seeing Your Father Clearly-  Elaine Bell
How to be a parent to adult children - Elaine Bell - Jenny Speed
Surviving Menopause...Understanding your hormones - Dr.David Ringel

Conference Information

Where:
Verity Institute Campus
Indianapolis, Indiana
February 10th-12th

Cost:
$159.00 (includes conference fee, materials and meals)
Conference starts Friday at 5:00 with dinner and concludes Sunday at 1:00
Housing: $50.00 per night per room+ tax (2 Double Beds)  Best Western Inn Crossroads 317.353.6966
WANT TO SAVE MONEY ...invite your friends and share a room!

To register for this conference please visit our site: www.witministries.com

Marriage Conference

Do you know of couples who are struggling in their marriage with hurt, bitterness, apathy, moral failure or anger? Could all these symptoms be the fruit of unresolved deeper issues? Do you know couples who started out years ago on their wedding day as best friends, yet today they treat each other as enemies or distant relatives at best? If your answer to one of the above questions is yes, then maybe you should pray about sending them to the upcoming "Whatever It Takes!" Marriage conference with Paul & Jenny Speed in Indianapolis, Indiana Sept.29th - Oct.2nd. Or maybe the Lord is calling you to attend so that you can learn how to help them yourself!

This three day conference will give couples the tools to recognize and defeat the tactics of the enemy set out to destroy their marriage and family. This is not "just" another seminar! It is an interactive weekend! Couples are involved with the "WIT" team, which is made up of couples from all over the U.S. who are walking in victory in their own personal lives and marriages after many years of defeat. Their own marriage's have been turned around and they now seek to help others find the freedom and joy they are experiencing.For more information and testimonies go to www.witministries.com

Singles WIT Conference, August 11-14th, 2011

God has brought nearly 170 young people from all all over North America for a weekend of seeking Him. Please pray that each attendee will experience the power and presence of God and walking in complete freedom! 

4 Days 2 Freedom!

On May 19-22nd, 11 men met with God for incredible weekend called “Four Days to Freedom”. It was a dynamic time of experiencing the power of God’s love, grace and mercy. God prepared their hearts to receive truth as they arrived spiritually hungry and searching for answers.

Several of the men were in real serious situations...even looking at divorce. It was amazing to watch them realize how the enemy was trying to steal, kill, and destroy their life. After the retreat they left with hope and a new fir to defeat the enemy and take back the ground that had been given to him.

"I will use the tools I have learned and God's resurrection power to overcome, retrain my mind, restore right relationships, and live victoriously. I will forever more fight alongside my wife as my battle partner against the true enemy." -Testimony

"This weekend I found the end of myself, and there was the root of my problem." -Testimony

Another man who had struggled with rejection said, "I now realize that I matter to God." -Testimony

Thank you God for another great weekend!

Paul Speed

Vintage Girls Retreat

Vintage Girls Retreat: Monterrey, Mexico April 19- 24, 2011

Leaving Mexico:

I slumped down into my chair aboard the plane headed for the US and reached for the Southern Living magazine the previous passenger had left behind. I was tired from the weekend of ministry and so the thought of indulging myself in the latest summer recipes and all those southern decorating ideas sounded good. I had a two-hour flight to Houston so I might as well read the whole thing, so I started with the editor’s page. Now you’re asking ...who reads the editors page? Well for some strange reason, I did, and these are the words that grabbed my attention....and my heart...

" Moving, like any major upheaval, puts your whole identity in perspective. As a bunch of college aged kids carried out the last boxes from the old house, I walked around the empty rooms and realized once and for all that my possessions no longer define me as they once had. As much as I loved that old house and it's garden, I needed a fresh start, a chance to move into my own true self, rather than contriving some image I thought I should project, or trying to live up to a standard I could never afford to meet. " - M. Lindsay Bierman -

Wow! Have I allowed my possessions to define me? I began to wipe the tears away from my eyes. After spending these last few days in Mexico the wealth and prosperity of my American life was starting to stink. Have I allowed things to control me? Really...who am I? Do I even know? Once you strip away all the things that have identified me, what is really left? God had spoken to me through the editor’s letter in a non- Christian magazine! He is an incredible God!

A New Vision:

Earlier in the week while praying with friends God had given me a vision of a small plant being taken out of its potting container. As it was being gently pulled from the container I saw that the roots were bound. The plant had simply outgrown the container. The gentle hands of the gardener slowly stripped the roots and freed them from their strangulation. Then the kind gardener began to place the plant into a new container that was three times the size of the last one. I realized that God was speaking to me. "Jenny, it's time to be moved into a bigger container."

My emotions were raw as the thoughts of that vision flooded my mind. I was on a plane leaving Mexico. I had spent these last days looking into the eyes of hurting young girls and praying for words to ease their pain. The words had come, God had spoken and freedom was the result. I was humbled by their willingness to come to the light and open their hearts. The stories were overwhelming. Abuse, poverty, immorality it was all there. One 14-year-old girl shared about being the "secret child ", the result of her mother’s adulterous relationship with a wealthy married man. The man meets her and her mother every year at a local store to give them money for Christmas. She is forced to help cover the secret so that the man’s family never finds out. This story is very common in this culture. Keeping the secret is honorable. Sex is never talked about even if it is a father with his daughter or brothers abusing sisters. Jane Alvaranga and I blew that lie out of the water! We both shared openly our own hidden secrets and how freedom came when we broke the silence. We talked about bringing EVERY evil deed to the light! Not just what we had done but what had been done to us. These girls were ready to stop the cycle. They kept telling Jane and I the same thing..."you look so free...I want the freedom you have!"

Some of the girls were from a Monterrey orphanage. They would never tell you but you just knew. One girl named Anna sobbed on my shoulder Friday night after communion. She could not speak English so all I could do was weep with her. When Jane Alvaranga (my interpreter, and friend) asked her about her family she said that her mom was on a trip and she did not know when she would be back. Her father had died when she was young. This was the typical answer of all the orphans. Their moms had dropped them off at the orphanage and promised them they would be back soon to get them but they almost never do. The feelings of abandonment plague their hearts and block them from being able to trust in this God we so easily speak of.

Jane Alvaranga was awesome! I saw her blossom as she stepped on the platform and taught the girls about true forgiveness from her own life. My Mexican interpreter Amaliah was a huge blessing and soon she, Jane and I became "The Three Amigos". We laughed and cried together! We shared our hearts openly and without reserve and Jesus met with us in a powerful way as He always does when we humble ourselves and ask Him.

The Rodriguez family, missionaries to Mexico (who invited Jane and I) are doing an incredible work there in Monterrey in spite of all the fear and danger going on all around them daily. Yes...their was a car chase, blocked roads, armed masked soldiers and shoot outs taking place in front of us on the way to the airport early in the morning! Christina Rodriguez was so funny...she quickly turned around in the van and began to try to direct our attention elsewhere so we would not be afraid. When I asked her about stories on the front page of the local newspaper she would just say..." well ...I don't think I need to translate that for you right now" and she would change the subject and move on talking 90 miles an hour. I kept thinking, Christina is a little spacey...after all she is a natural blond. :) Little did I know shootings were going on all around us and she and her family were trying to make sure we were not alarmed and kept safe. She finely told me all the stories when I saw her back in the US in Texas! That little sneak! She was good! I love you Christina! Thank you for allowing me to serve the people of Mexico!

E-mail from Cristina...

Jenny, Do you remember the girl who told me at the beginning of the conference that she was literally planning on committing suicide after the retreat was over, if she didn't find answers to her life's struggles? It was a last resort for her! I remember thinking, "OKAY! WOW. No pressure! SUICIDE? Oh Jesus, please show Your power!" He did, and she went home a changed girl!!" Such a powerful story. Thank you Jesus!

So what were the answers to those questions? Bringing the hidden details to the light. Grabbing hold of Gods grace and choosing to forgive. This girl had been date raped and had huge emotional scars she was carrying from it. Bringing the details to the light and allowing Jesus to heal them was the turning point. She found out that weekend that she was not "all alone". Others have trodden the same path before her and yet have found complete healing from the same horrible things. Life is not fair but God is just! If we will allow Him, He will take the unfair and unjust things and turn them for our good and for His glory. I cannot help but think how the enemy must have shuttered to see this young girl get set free! She arrived on Thursday with no smile and her body language said it all. She left on Saturday with her face covered by one huge smile and joy overflowing in her heart. She had met the one who spoke these words many years ago and still speaks them today to you...Luke 4:18 " The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

Are you poor? Do you have a broken heart? Are you being held captive? Can you see? Is oppression surrounding you? Good news!! Then Jesus has come for you! Cry out to Him, He will answer you!

Whatever It Takes! -Jenny

P.S. Thanks to everyone who helped Jane go with me! I could not have done it without her! We are praying about the formation of a "Spanish speaking WIT Team" who will go back to Mexico next year and present a full WIT conference. If you are interested in being apart of that ministry please e-mail Rey and Jane Alvaranga at reyalvaranga@gmail.com

April Newsletter

Dear WIT Prayer Team,

How do you handle the death of a vision? The loss of your dreams? The hurt and pain of betrayal by people you thought were friends? This will be our theme this summer at the ATI conferences. We have just come through one of the hardest seasons of our lives. The attacks were relentless, the pain deep, fear overwhelmed us, and depression fogged our minds. We searched our souls asking the questions we so often ask others....Is there any hidden sin? Has the enemy been given any ground in our lives? Where have we resisted God's grace?

For almost four months we were in such a place of confusion that we could not even bring ourselves to compose an e-mail asking for prayer. We sold our home way under its value and had to be out 10 days before Christmas. Jenny began to have health issues, and depression had a hold on both of us. We just could not bring ourselves to write a newsletter because we felt so defeated. We need to apologize for not calling upon you, our prayer team, to intercede for us during that time. All we know to say is, we simply could not. We were bound.

Yet, God in His mercy has shown His favor towards us once again and delivered us from our enemies. Slowly we have begun to find the steady ground, the fog has cleared, depression has lifted, and we are seeing the mighty hand of God go before us slaying the enemies who sought to take us out. These last months are not something that we would ever want to go through again, yet we have found great truths to hold on to in the midst of pain, suffering, and loss. We now have a new message of hope for the hurting that was formed in the heat of God's refining fire. We look forward to sharing this message with many of you this summer.

Lake Placid, FL. Marriage Conference summary:

Jenny and I just returned from the WIT Couples Conference in Lake Placid, FL. We were blessed to have this last conference be sponsored by Lakeshore Bible Church. The families there were a real blessing to us and worked hard to bring WIT Ministries to the Tampa area.

On Friday night of the conference, we counted four couples who were separated. By Sunday all four were making a commitment to stay married and work out the Plan of Action they had written out with the help of their WIT team leaders.

We had some tough situations ... One man was threatening to leave his wife on Friday night, and the team leaders had to step in to give her safety. On Saturday Butch Jalbert led that same man through "The Steps to Freedom" by Neil Anderson. The man, Paul, came to true salvation in Christ! Sunday morning he was crying like a baby, lying flat on the floor during our worship time. He had a incredible encounter with Jesus that weekend. His faced completely changed from angry and stern to loving and joyful. He asked to be baptized Sunday afternoon! One of the pastors of Lakeshore Bible Church baptized him in the lake with all the WIT attendees watching. We all sang, "Amazing grace...my chains are gone I've been set free....my God my Savior has ransomed me...." as he came up out of the water! What a glorious day!

Our scholarship fund was able to help pay for another young couple to attend, and they both were saved! Thank you to those who have given to the scholarship fund! So far three people have said they were saved at the Tampa WIT! No Roman road, no sinner's prayer being recited, just Jesus showing up and convicting of sin. Just ordinary people telling their stories of how Jesus has set them free! It is amazing how God uses these team leaders and their stories, told in humility, to convict others and bring them to freedom. He is an awesome God who seeks to not only save, but to deliver us! Can you tell we are excited? What a powerful weekend! God did so much in the lives of all of us!

ATI SUMMER CONFERENCES:

We have a story to tell! Among all the other things that were happening last fall, we were also talking to attorneys about allowing our business to file bankruptcy. How do you go from a thriving business to nothing in three years? The Lord has brought us through all this. We did not file bankruptcy but, instead, chose to negotiate with all our creditors and paid all the debt off with the sale of our home. We made a few steps of obedience, and God met us in an incredible way. We are looking forward to sharing with families this summer how our marriage has survived this horrible financial crisis and the lessons God has taught us.

Time & Place:

• Big Sandy, Texas April 26 - 29
• Nashville, Tennessee May 31 - June 3
• Sacramento, California June 28 - July 1
• Indianapolis, Indiana August 2 - 5

INDY SINGLES CONFERENCE!!!!

• Verity Campus AUGUST 10 - 13

Mark it on your calendar! We are looking forward to another powerful singles conference! Singles ages 18 to 102! Be set free so you can be all God has called you to be...NOW! Marriage will never make you whole! The theme for WIT 1/2 ....OPEN, BROKEN, FREE!!! Parents sign up your young person! Under 18 accepted with parents' permission. WIT Alumni....contact us if you are interested in being Team Leaders!

TWO WIT CONFERENCES COMING THIS FALL (stay tuned for more info!)

• WIT #1 BREAKING FREE .....VERITY INSITUTE CAMPUS .....SEPT. 29th - OCT. 1st
• NEW... COMING IN OCT.....WIT #2 MOVING FORWARD! This conference is new and will be for WIT alumni only.

4 Days 2 Freedom:

www.4days2freedom.com God continues to expand this ministry. Paul and the men who make up the 4D2F team are seeing incredible demonstrations of God's power to free those who have been bound. Jesus said in Luke 4:18, "The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me, To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed." This is the call that is upon our lives as believers! We cannot sit back and watch as our brothers and sisters remain in captivity. We must go against the norm, say the things that no one wants to say, and, as one of our friends recently described it, " You gotta roll up your sleeves and get down in the filthy muck and help them climb out." That's what the WIT team does! These team leaders who volunteer to come assist are invaluable! These men help cement the hope into these guys hearts that, yes, you can be free! Several testimonies are below!

Upcoming 4 Days 2 Freedom: Tampa FL. May 19 - 22

More being scheduled monthly.

The Speeds Are Moving to Florida!

The Lord willing, we will be moving to Land O Lakes, FL, (near Tampa) on June 15. This has been a huge decision, and it does not come without many tears. We will be leaving behind wonderful friends who have walked through some of the darkest days our family has ever experienced. How do you replace friends who have walked with you through it all? Our hearts break as we say goodbye, but we know that the last chapter has not been written. Our God is a good God...all the time!

Why Florida? Paul is from the panhandle of FL where his widowed mother still lives. We will be moving to central FL which will be six hours closer to her. As we prayed about what to do after the house in NC sold, we felt the Lord directing us to be closer to an international airport for our ministry and his mother.

Please Pray for a Home!

We have placed an offer on a house, but, because it is a short sale, it could take weeks or months before we get a response from the bank. We are trying to trust God one step at a time and just keep walking forward and making plans. The Fechtel family at Lakeshore Bible Church has offered us a temporary place to stay in case we do not have a home by June. The pastors of Lakeshore are also helping us get our 501 C 3 paperwork finished, and we are forming a board of directors for WIT Ministries. Until the paperwork is finished, tax deductible donations for WIT Ministries can be sent to:

Lakeshore Bible Church

531 County Line Road

Lutz, FL 33549

Lakeshore has been very kind to offer their guidance as we take WIT Ministries to a greater level of serving those who are hurting. We are grateful for their assistance!

Monterrey, Mexico:

Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 19, Jenny will be flying to Mexico to join Christina Rodriguez and her family to speak to 150+ girls who are from poor and shattered backgrounds. The Rodriguez family are missionaries to Mexico and Christina hosts a summer camp every year for teenage girls. Jenny has been asked to be the speaker for this year's camp. She will have eight sessions with the girls over a period of three days. Jane Alvaranga, WIT Team Leader, who is from Columbia and speaks Spanish, will be attending with Jenny to help with translation and also will be sharing her own story of abuse and the road to forgiveness. They are very excited about sharing the love of Christ with this group of young girls. Please pray for a special anointing to be upon the ministry team as we have been told that these girls have little, if any, understanding of Christianity. Thanks to those who helped pay for Jane's plane ticket! (Pictures and a report coming soon!)

Doors are opening!

Just this week we have been contacted by people in California, Canada, and Malaysia asking us to bring WIT to their areas. We praise God for the opportunities to help others experience freedom in Christ. We are humbled by God's goodness. We thank you, our prayer partners, who stand in the battle with us. We are grateful for each of you and pray that you are living in the light of God's truth! If you ever need us, please feel free to contact us through e-mail. We are now back in the battle and stronger than ever! Praise Jesus!

Whatever It Takes!

Rev:12:11

Paul & Jenny

Announcing WIT Singles T-Shirt Contest

We are looking for a cool design for the 2011 conference t-shirt! The slogan? Open. Broken. Free! Please submit your artwork by June 30th. witsingles@gmail.com Questions? Call 813.453.8200