Submission Number: 24
Submission ID: 7384
Submission UUID: d433f33a-a643-4c9c-af60-de8b3e463003

Created: Sat, 05/11/2024 - 10:14
Completed: Tue, 05/14/2024 - 15:29
Changed: Tue, 05/14/2024 - 15:29

Remote IP address: 2601:5c5:380:40e0:3818:f3fb:1538:63a0
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No
First Name Ron
Last Name Woodson
Email ron.wheelpower@gmail.com
Mobile Phone 5405387293 (corrected)
Address
Birth Month July
Birth Day 20
Birth Year 1953
Why are you interested in pursuing this initiative? When I retired in 2008, I volunteered at a Christian retreat and camp center. I worked with the owner who became my close friend and my elder sage. I worked with him until he died in 2022. Working with him made me realize how important it is to have a sage leading you. While I worked there, I was the counselor for the boy's summer camps. I realized how important it is to be a sage in a man's life. I feel like I can be a good Elder Sage.











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Tell us about your family: Married for forty-five years, we have two sons. One is forty-five years old, and the other is forty- three years old. We have one grandson who is eighteen years old and three granddaughters, one thirteen years old, one eleven years old and one nine years old.





What is your experience with Zoweh events and/or resources? In 2010 I went to a Top Gun retreat. I got there early to help set up and help in any way could. The next year I was part of the I Team. The following year my wife and I attended a Zoweh marriage retreat.
How did you first connect with Jesus in a personal way? When I was a kid, my father used to take us to church. When we got there, he would drop us off and then go hang out with the other men in the parking lot, until we got done with Sunday school and church. I wanted to grow up so I would not have to go to church. I wanted to hang out in the parking lot. One Sunday they were teaching about how much Jesus loves us, that he died for each one of us. Then I didn't want to be like the men in the parking lot. I wanted to be inside finding out about Jesus. I was only about 8 or 9 years old.
Tell us about a time when you shared your Jesus story. In 2018, I road my bicycle from Georgia to California for a 3-month mission trip, sharing Christ with everyone we could. We shared Christ with lots of people and 21 came to Christ.


Explain your familiarity with the following terms: wounds, vows and agreements. Wounds: things that hurt someone deep down inside their hearts. Sometime the only way it will be fixed is by the Holy Spirit. It's something you keep to yourself.

Vows: promises but a whole lot deeper. A vow can be good or bad.

Agreements: agreements are things you are accepting as true about yourself or something else. They can be with God, in which case they are true and helpful, or with the devil, in which case they are lies and harmful which we accept as true, anyway.
Tell us about a significant wounding moment that you experienced. During a bad time of our life, the paster told us we were not needed, not wanted. At the time there were two major things going wrong in our life. Neither one was a church problem. At a time when we needed our church family, that pastor took it away. It was a two-year battle, but even if men failed us, Jesus was with us.
Explain your personal familiarity with spiritual warfare. Continuing with the story in wounding, that was 2 years of hell. Every day was a battle. The devil was after me every day. I felt like everything I was doing was wrong. But the Holy Spirit was always there, too, comforting me and giving me strength when I felt like I couldn't go any further. This was the first time I ever felt spiritual warfare. As a result of that time, I know that I will never be alone.
Give an example of how you have heard from God. The first time I remember hearing from God (and it is still the start of something great) is the night that the Holy Spirit led me to Jesus. It was a Wednesday night church meeting. I still remember when someone there said, "Someone is ready to receive Jesus as their personal Savior." There were two chairs in the middle of the room. The next thing I knew, I was in one of the chairs. Then people started praying over me. At that time, I felt a warm loving feeling like I'd never felt before. I felt the love of Christ was real.
Have you had any training in listening and/or engaging in another man's story? I received suicide prevention training when I was in the army. That was over 30 years ago. This training showed me how to listen to people when they talk. I used this training when I was a supervisor to help coworkers when they were going through times of extreme stress, and when I worked with kids at camp who were struggling with personal problems. I think this training will help me as an Elder Sage.





Which of the following books have you read? King Me, The Heart of a Warrior, Search and Rescue, Waking the Dead, The Screwtape Letters, The ​​Sacred Romance, It’s Your Call, Wild At Heart
How did you discover the Elder-Sage Initiative? Zoweh Website
What is the best time to call you? Monday-Saturday, 7am-10am.
First Name Mark
Last Name Cook
Email 53mark71@gmail.com
Phone 540-222-3858 (leave message)