The Well Ministries

Rev. Earlene Coleman was the speaker for the weekend. I now consider it a divine appointment to have met her there especially since I didn’t want to go there in the first place. We didn’t have a chance to speak the whole weekend until Sunday morning where we had a few minutes together. Later she told me that the Lord had told her to speak to me but couldn’t find an opportunity before that. We know why now because she shared the vision for this ministry and the publication and has helped me by writing stories each month. She also became the first vice president of the organization when it was established.

That Sunday morning as all the ladies there shared communion with new friends, once strangers, I looked around the room and saw 40 hurting women just like me, nearly everyone crying. The Lord reminded me of a vision I once had for a publicity campaign for our printing business of doing a monthly newsletter and said to me that it should be for hurting women just like these. This room was filled with 40 hurting women; imagine how many are in the world!

The retreat ended abruptly as we had to evacuate the area because of emergency snow conditions.

Upon arriving home I was a changed person but Satan tried to undermine that right away.

A few days later I was praying and told the Lord that I would do this publication only if He gave me a name for it. Every major publication has a name and this would be no different. The next morning the name “The Well” popped in my head and my heart jumped. I knew it was the name from the Lord for the publication. Then I started singing the song “Fill My Cup, Lord!”

“Like the woman at the well I was seeking
for things that could not satisfy;
and then I heard my Savior speaking
‘Draw from My well that never shall run dry.’
Fill my cup, Lord, I lift it up Lord!
Come and quench this thirsting of my soul;
Bread of Heaven, feed me till I want no more,
fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole!”

Then the scripture from John 4:14 came to me:

“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”

I was so excited to finally be hearing from God. I knew that the first issue needed to be done by that Sunday as we were going to have a dinner with all the ladies from the retreat to share our testimonies and have closure since we had to evacuate the retreat center prematurely because of emergency snow conditions.

I worked the rest of the week in preparing the first edition. I stayed up late Saturday to make sure it was complete. On Sunday morning I took the first copies to church to pass a few out before the service to ladies I knew would not be there that evening. I wanted to get their approval as I had always sought before. But I didn’t have a chance to speak to anyone before the service as I was running late.

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