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Kristi Allred, First Brandon

September 16, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Kristi Allred, First Brandon The disciple shares her testimony about how God never abandons you and sends people to you when you need them.    ...

Jeanie Scheff, Memorial, Fernandina Beach

September 9, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Jeanie Scheff, Memorial, Fernandina Beach Suit up and Show up - be amazed! God whispered; we said yes!  Joey and I suited up, showed up, and it has ...

TJ Zimmerman, First Lakeland

September 2, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   TJ Zimmerman, First Lakeland The youth ministries director talks about the importance of mentoring, particularly intergenerational mentoring.    ...

Pamela Green, Ebenezer Miami

August 26, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Pamela Green, Ebenezer Miami In January 2014, I participated in the World Methodist Evangelism Tour in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, as a missioner from Candler ...

Nikki Dion, University Carillon UMC, Oviedo

August 19, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Nikki Dion, University Carillon UMC, Oviedo The disciple shares her story of being a “Vessel for God’s Grace” and realizing that you don’t have to be on...

Marcus Smith, New Life Community, Jacksonville

August 12, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Marcus Smith, New Life Community, Jacksonville In August 2010 I left Jacksonville, Florida, and the Florida Annual Conference behind to pursue further ...

Candy Ogden, First Clermont

August 5, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Candy Ogden, First Clermont I have been blessed to serve the FUMC Clermont on staff for 30 years. As a young adult I knew I was called to work in the ...

Michelle Maldonado, Nuevo Pacto, Sebring

July 29, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Michelle Maldonado, Nuevo Pacto, Sebring “Everyone I have met and worked with has mentored me in some way.” The young adult shares her story about how ...

Jim Halley, Asbury, Orange Park

July 22, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Jim Halley, Asbury, Orange Park I have always been active with the Boy Scouts of America.  All three of my boys (no girls) are Eagle Scouts.   I am a ...

Genise Austin-Holliday

July 15, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Genise Austin-Holliday A participant in this past year’s Young Adult Missional Movement (YAMM), the disciple shares her memories of growing up and being ...

Lewis Culpepper, Tuckaleechee UMC, Tennessee

July 8, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Lewis Culpepper, Tuckaleechee UMC, Tennessee GOD SENT ME AN EMAIL – NO, REALLY   When I was 10 or 12 years old, my neighborhood friends and I used to build...

Rev. Esther Rodriguez

July 1, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Rev. Esther Rodriguez The pastor shares her story about the many people who mentored her through different seasons for different reasons and for different ...

Arnold Poppens, North Naples

June 24, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Arnold Poppens, North Naples Julie’s Story   In early 2010 my wife Julie had open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve and to repair an aneurysm on ...

Students of Bethune-Cookman University

June 17, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Students of Bethune-Cookman University Echoing this year’s Annual Conference theme of Next Generations, several students share their views about the ...

Karen Loos, Oak Grove, Tampa

June 10, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Karen Loos, Oak Grove, Tampa We provide healing spiritual retreats for women coming out of sex trafficking, addiction and abuse. We work with several ...

Yong Hwang, First Lakeland

June 3, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Yong Hwang, First Lakeland In anticipation of our Annual Conference and its theme of Next Generations, we offer a story of intergenerational mentoring that...

Cheri Mangum, Community DeBary

May 27, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Cheri Mangum, Community DeBary A story from the past…   I met Samuel on Wednesday.   Looking for a new job opportunity is not easy – as a matter of fact, ...

Barry Shields, First Ocala

May 20, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Barry Shields, First Ocala Jesus said to Matthew, “Follow me and be my disciple.”  Matthew’s friends were “disreputable sinners,” yet Jesus went home with ...

Shari Morris, First Reddick

May 13, 2015   This Week’s Storyteller is…   Shari Morris, First Reddick Over two years ago, I was asked to become a youth leader by our pastor at the time, Russell Clark. I wasn't sure what I was ...

Ben Bowman, Georgianna, Merritt Island

May 6, 2015 This Week's Storyteller Is... Ben Bowman, Georgianna, Merritt Island The other day I was playing with my children outside when a neighbor kid saw me throwing a football and motioned for ...

Claudia Sava, Community DeBary

April 29, 2015 This Week's Storyteller Is... Claudia Sava, Community DeBary I went to Pastor Lisa and Cheri Mangum in 2011 and asked if we could have the blood mobile come to CUMC on a regular ...

Shirley Jordan, Shores St. Augustine

April 22, 2015 This Week's Storyteller Is... Shirley Jordan, Shores St. Augustine On December 19, 1995, at 2 p.m., I was a member a small church in Hastings, Florida. My husband was a successful ...

Rhonda Lackey, University Carillon UMC

Rhonda Lackey, University Carillon UMC A testimony to the triumph of God in a disciple’s life: she is transformed from the hopelessness of addiction and homelessness, becomes drug-free and enters a ...

Alan Patz, Garden City, Jacksonville

Alan Patz, Garden City, Jacksonville With real joy, the disciple shares his lyrics for “Thank God I’m a Methodist,” to be sung to the tune of “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” by John Denver.   Long ago ...

Bill and Rachel DeVito, North Naples

Bill and Rachel DeVito, North Naples The couple shares their miraculous story of their marriage falling apart and getting divorced, experiencing God coming into their lives, reuniting and remarrying. ...

Carol Hilson, Community UMC, Ft. Pierce

Carol Hilson, Community UMC, Ft. Pierce As a preschool director, serving Community United Methodist Church for 25 years, many have said I should write a book, but where is the time to do that? Our ...

Pastor Rebecca Hyvonen, Venetian Bay UMC

Pastor Rebecca Hyvonen, Venetian Bay UMC Slowly transforming the world… As a new church start pastor, it has been exciting and terrifying at times to get to be a part of God’s work in making ...

Dianne Richardson, First Orlando

Dianne Richardson, First Orlando When I began to seek spiritual maturity, I began to focus on the fruits of the Spirit described in Galatians.  I prayed for things like kindness and joy.  However, the...

Hannah James, Port Charlotte

Hannah James, Port Charlotte There are some places that are so intertwined with our lives that they have a profound effect on who we are. Like the color of a thread changes the look of a tapestry, the...

Tamara Isidore, Friendship UMC, Clearwater

Tamara Isidore, Friendship UMC, Clearwater The pastor’s video story about being in mission with God includes: “Ministry is really costly. God, however, is still in the business of taking his church to...

Stephanie Gray, First UMC, Archer

Stephanie Gray, First UMC, Archer This story is to glorify God. I was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused, by my father at a young age, for many years. I was rebellious and defiant because of...

Lynda Moss, First UMC, Pahokee

<strong>Stephanie Gray, First UMC, Archer </strong><br /> She tells her story of how Jesus healed her, bringing her from a life of self-destruction to redemption. &ldquo;It took a long time, but Jesus healed me. I am still not perfect, but glory to God, I am on my way. I give all the glory to God: He is the only one who could get my out of my past and give me a future.&rdquo;

Dorothea Schaefer, Christ Palm Bay

Dorothea Schaefer, Christ Palm Bay Three years ago, Christ United Methodist Church of Palm Bay started a Young @ Heart Circle.  The Circle members started visiting our shut-ins and residents at the ...

Kari Snell, First Orlando

January 7, 2015 Kari Snell, First Orlando I came to the Methodist church about three years ago, after I had gone through a church split in another denomination.  I had reservations about being a part ...

Rev. Joseph Kim, Riverview UMC Ormond Beach

Rev. Joseph Kim, Riverview UMC Ormond Beach Rev. Kim tells how meeting Christ changed him, and he praises God “for changing me to be the person He wants me to be every day.” He testifies about being ...

Olivia Wolfe, Lakewood UMC, Jacksonville

Olivia Wolfe, Lakewood UMC, Jacksonville I began going to church as a skeptical, resistant and broken 9th grader who was following an order given by her mom. My family had never been a church going ...

Rini Hernandez, Southwest District Superintendent

Rini Hernandez, Southwest District Superintendent Sharing his passion for making disciples of Jesus Christ, Rini calls all of us to join in the work of the Holy Spirit. Acts 20:24: “I consider my life...

Joyce Parten, First Melbourne

Joyce Parten, First Melbourne Twenty-five years ago when big churches began to make their moves to the suburbs, away from the center of town with its old housing and commercially dominated areas,  ...

Ruth Mageria, Executive Director of CROS Ministries

Ruth Mageria, Executive Director of CROS Ministries The disciple shares how she has learned that the Lord’s harvest is plentiful, how she is grateful that God has called her to be his hands and feet ...

George Harrell, Plantation UMC

George Harrell, Plantation UMC The Team that will not Go Away Introduction: This is a story about a blessing that occurred for a volunteer work team at Plantation, Florida United Methodist Church ...

Mike Goodman, First UMC, Homestead

Mike Goodman, First UMC, Homestead A Very Black Friday The Atlantic churns to salty foam all around us as we don our gear and prepare to submerge. An intensifying, charcoal-black storm has been ...

Stories of Transformation at Shepherd’s Community UMC, Lakeland

Stories of Transformation at Shepherd’s Community UMC, Lakeland The fruitfulness of ministry is measured not by numbers by the transformation of life. In this upcoming video you will hear how God has ...

Barbara Crosby, Spring Glen, Jacksonville

Barbara Crosby, Spring Glen, Jacksonville Prayers are answered, and the dream of making a change in the lives of hungry children comes true.   Up September 3… Bill and Diana Upchurch, First ...

Richard E. Stanard, First UMC, Homosassa

Richard E. Stanard, First UMC, Homosassa Like many, my early years included church and parental training about my Christianity, and at the time the words and training seemed remote and irrelevant; ...

Sue Holbrook, First UMC, Vero Beach

Sue Holbrook, First UMC, Vero Beach “Being a disciple – and leading others to be disciples – means developing the talents and abilities I’ve been given – for me that means proclaiming and encouraging ...

Alex Grimberg, First New Port Richey

Alex Grimberg, First New Port Richey After my spiritual healing, I have been involved in many aspects of compassionate care.  Over twenty years ago, I became a trained Stephen Minister and then went ...

Yvette Carter, St. Paul UMC, Largo

Yvette Carter, St. Paul UMC, Largo The director of Open Arms Ministry tells how pride, for a time, kept her from asking God for help.  And, when she did:  “He comforted me in my tribulation and ...

Brenda Cook, Celebration Gainesville

Brenda Cook, Celebration Gainesville I am a walking, talking miracle. While I was raised in a Christian home and taught to be a disciple of Christ, my life took several wrong turns. I just wouldn't ...

Dale White, Killearn UMC, Tallahassee

Dale White, Killearn UMC, Tallahassee I came to believe in Jesus Christ through KUMC and the Celebrate Recovery program there. Here is a link to a short 4 minute testimony filmed at KUMC. Since this ...

Carol Stewart, Sun City Center

Carol Stewart, Sun City Center A KOOL-AID AND COOKIE CHRISTIAN I often describe myself as a “Kool-Aid and Cookie Christian” because one summer when I was about 10 years old I heard that a church in ...

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