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  books:
    - 'The Heart of a Warrior'
  birth_day: '8'
  birth_month: July
  birth_year: '1948'
  call: "Most anytime. I am up early most of the time, but I would appreciate it if you could text me first because I don't always answer calls from unknown numbers. "
  discover: 'Another Elder-Sage'
  email: amlintom@gmail.com
  experience: 'I have only started to experience Zoweh but I feel a kindred Spirit and my first encounter, Heart of a warrior, was much like I expected and more. The first session I felt The Holy Spirit assure me this is what He led me too. The last session He confirmed it again. I have been in ministry 58 years in many capacities. I felt the Holy Spirit said to me, after Michael said God had prepared him for 38 years for this particular event, He had been preparing me for 58 years for this ministry. My good friend Rob Blount has helped me to better understand what I know about Zoweh, and then I discovered he knew Wendell Deyo who I met many years ago and so we all had lunch one day and I learned more. That said, I am trying to learn as much as I can.  '
  family: 'I was married to my first wife, June 22, 1968. We sang together, she taught, I preached, we were involved in many aspects of ministry and then about 14 years after we married, our lives faced major challenges. We had two children, she got a disease, MS. There is a lot to this story for later but we continued in ministry because Father God led us to do so and He used her illness to open doors and witness to people. May 2015, Jackie went home to be with the Lord. I didn’t know if God made two women to put up with me but He did, and March 2018 Pam and I were married. She has two children, with kids as well. This has opened up another avenue for ministry as we had to make adjustments and choices we never experienced before. One of the biggest helps to doing that was knowing God had confirmed to me I was to ask her to marry me. '
  first_name: Thomas
  heard: |+
    This was one of the first lessons in our young married lives. In 1970 we were expecting our first child. As we approached six months before birth I realized there was an issue. Everything seemed fine but my heart was troubled. I prayed and God impressed on me the need to pray for my wife and new baby. I prayed for six months knowing that unless God answered my prayer, I would lose both my wife and new child. I prayed constantly and one night my wife Jackie woke me up and it was not good. She had been hemorrhaging. I called the doctors home and his wife answered. She told me to get her to the hospital. My immediate thoughts, this is it, this is when it happens. I got here there, she was admitted quickly and they began to exam, watch, and care for her. After a few hours I told Jackie I would leave for a few minutes, go home, brush my teeth, get some cash, and be right back. On my way home, I was praying and Father God showed me a place He wanted me to pray. I did, and I remembered something one of my Profs said and when I went to pray, I told God, “Whatever happens I will still serve you”. I went back to the hospital, and the head nurse came in, examined Jackie, and hurried out. I could hear her on the hall phone saying something about the baby’s heartbeat. I thought again, this may be it. In just a few minutes the doctor was walking down the hall, a nurse on each side helping him prepare for surgery, talking to me as he walked saying, “we are going to operate, we are going for a live baby.” I heard God say everything would be alright. I went upstairs and watched a football game. In a few minutes a nurse stopped in and told me I had a beautiful baby girl. I asked about Jackie and she told me she was fine, the doctor would be up in a few minutes. When he came up, he told me if he had not operated, Jackie would have bled to death, the baby would have lost her heart beat, and if he had Jackie on the operating table he could not have saved either one of them. Praise God. But there is more. When my parents come up, I told dad about it because I had not told anyone. He then told me he had been going thru the same thing and neither one of us told each other. I have heard from God many times even when I complain, like this. God I don’t like what’s going on here and He answers, “I know.” Sometimes there has to be suffering to grow. 

  last_name: Amlin
  listening: |+
    In my 58 years in different capacities, I have had many opportunities to talk with, and listen to men, women, of all ages, and teenagers, about many different subjects. I have officiated weddings, funerals, spent time with families and whatever was needed to help at that time, which requires listening. 

    I also have a dual degree from Circleville Bible College, Now OCU, in Ministry and Counseling. I will admit the first part of my college years I was studying too much with a round ball, basketball, but after I left, went into ministry where I learned by, on the job training, I got my head on straight, went back to school and was on the Dean’s list every grading period but one, where I missed it by a percentage of a point. It wasn’t that I couldn’t do it earlier, I just didn’t. I used to train sales people how to watch, listen, and recognize when they had lost their potential client, or sale. It took a while before I realized I couldn’t talk someone into changing their heart, they had to want to. Sometimes it’s painful when you’re trying to help someone see something that can make a difference in their life but, they still have to make the choice. 

  mobile_phone: '9376310122'
  reference_email: rblount1229@gmail.com
  reference_first_name: Rob
  reference_last_name: Blount
  reference_phone: 740-408-3197
  story: |+
    This is one of my favorite stories. 
    I was pastoring in Tucson Arizona and I had to be in Phoenix for a couple days for some business. I was on my way home, tired and the 100 mile drive seemed like a long way but as I was driving south on route17 I thought of a friend of mine I heard was in phoenix. This was before cell phones so I thought I would stop at a Circle K, or something, and use the phone booth. I missed my exit, I thought at that time, and decided I would go on home and do it another time. The Holy Spirit said for me to stop at the next exit, I still wanted to go home, but the Holy Spirit insisted I stop. I got to the phone booth, no book. I told myself I will go into the store, but the Holy Spirit told me to ask someone in the parking lot. I objected a couple times and finally gave in to Him. There set a young man in his pickup truck. I asked, and received a phone book. We developed a conversation, later developed a relationship, and before too long, I had the privilege to lead he, and his pregnant girlfriend to Jesus. A lot of this story left out, but he is still walking with the Lord, raised his family in church, great business man, and I am thankful to say, one of my spiritual boys! Praise Jesus. Oh, the guy I was trying to find lived in Tucson, not Phoenix. I didn’t get the wrong exit, I got the correct one. 

  terms: |
    Wounds, scars, 58 years of ministry, my dad as a first elder for 13 years, as the insurance commercial says he has seen a lot, even though I am blessed, I have seen a lot, and I have many wounds, and scars but I have given them all to Christ. Vows, my first wife and I were married just a few weeks short of 47 years and 33 years of our marriage we fought MS together. If we could back up time, keep the knowledge I have including the disease, I would still want to spend that 47 years married to her. I kept my vows and would do it all over again. 
    Agreements, one, I do my best to let God do what He is supposed to do and I do what I am supposed to do. That’s one of the agreements I have with Him. 
  testimony: |
    I was born into a Christian family and when I was two, we moved to a farm that was 13 miles from Urbana and about 16 miles to our church which we attended whenever the doors were open. In those days driving that distance was more like an excursion but no matter. I heard about Jesus all my life but, it would be later that I truly surrendered my life to Him. 
    On April 28 ,1967 I gave my heart to Christ and the next morning, about 12 hours later, I asked the Holy Spirit to completely take charge because I wouldn’t make it if He didn’t. I knew I had been called to be in ministry but I had also been running from God because I wanted to be a basketball coach. I was attending a liberal arts college until I got saved and then transferred to Circleville Bible College, now Ohio Christian University the next year after I gave my life to Christ. 
  warfare: |+
    It’s interesting to me how some leaders do not believe in demonic warfare when God’s word talks about it. I have worked on the American Indian field with primarily 5 tribes in Arizona and New Mexico. I was a full time Missionary for several years and am now a voluntary missionary for a period of about 20 years. One story happened on Navajo nation, place called Red Rock. Short portion of a bigger story. After suggesting a possessed Hogan be prayed over to kick those suckers out of there, there was a battle that I had never experienced before when I and a coworker were driving back, out of the mountains from over 7,000 ft. elevation and a battle was taking place for my spirit.  Again, a lot more to this story and the many times of warfare, but this story was explained to me by a Lakota Sue women, and I had not told her my story from the night before. It was a revealing moment. It’s real but God still prevails. I realize on the reservation we are in one of evil’s strong holds, but I feel evil works anywhere it is allowed to and I feel more people deal with it than they realize. The impressions we have come from God or evil so there is more to spiritual warfare than what is located in one spot. The problem, I feel is, the refusal to call it what it is, we have an adversary but we can serve the only living God who has defeated our adversary!

  why: 'I have realized a need for men’ ministry for many years. I considered starting something myself, but being busy in other ministry, knowing it was something bigger than me, but- I also believe God and I can do anything He wants me to do, however, He did not lead me to charge forward yet. I read The Heart of a Warrior and I don’t know of anything I disagreed with, I attended the conference, God confirmed this is where He is leading my focus, and I feel my 58 years of experience can be useful. I feel if we can get men to accept their rightful position of leading the family, instead of leaving the family, progress could be made in bringing the family back together. I believe in God’s design and plan. I want to be part of what He wants me to be. I have been through a lot in my life time, and I know He has brought me through it to be able to make a difference in other people’s life. I have come to this conviction after dealing with a great dislike to vanity. I treated anything close to it as the plague and it took me a long time to get out of that ditch. I feel that evil tried to keep me there so it could minimize my years of making mistakes, and getting victories over them, and it would not be used to help someone who was interested in learning, how to grow in Christ. I believe The Holy Spirit leads us, if we are willing to listen, that being said, I feel this is what I have been looking for. I hope I get to share more of my story to give more insight to how I believe God has prepared me for this time of ministry.  '
  wound: 'I must admit, I kept this as the last question I answered. I think at my age, the work and ministry I have been a part of, the people I have been with, sometimes made me feel like they thought it was there responsibility to slash scars anywhere they can, and the attitude of people now is so selfish and critical, so I choose not to concentrate on my wounds but trust God to help me. I suppose one that bothers me the most is when someone breaks my confidence. I still have some trust hesitations, but my feeling is, if I can change something, change it but I only control one person so I don’t worry about anything. '