Get to Know Winters

Ministry Description

This year I am serving on a worship band called Legacy Overflow as one of the team leaders as well as one of the guitarists/vocalists. We will be spending 9 months together traveling the U.S. going to different churches and schools. Our #1 goal is to share the gospel. We will be sharing the gospel through music, dramas, messages and conversations. Along with sharing the gospel, we will be sharing with everyone about Word of Life and recruiting future campers and students. Thank you all so much for your support whether it is through prayer or through giving or both. If you have any questions regarding what our ministry through Legacy is or about my testimony please feel free to reach out. I would love to have a conversation.

Learn more about the ministry in the United States.

About

Growing up my dad was always a worship leader or a youth pastor at whatever church we were at. We were in church every time the doors were open if not more. I had heard the gospel many times from a young age, and at 5 years old I can remember being in my room one night and being scared of going to hell. I called for my parents and they led me through your typical salvation prayer. At this point of my life I thought I was saved. However, fast forward to middle school, I struggled a lot with doubting my salvation. I had a lot of anger towards God for the way certain things had unfolded in my life and questioned a lot of things. I got in with the wrong crowd in middle school just because they accepted me. The crowd I found myself in dealt with a lot of dark thoughts and issues that they were very open about. We all kind of fed into each others struggles in a negative way and it made the struggles I was having myself a lot worse. I couldn’t see my self worth, I didn’t understand why God had kept me here after some of my darkest times. I struggled with this over the next several years on and off throughout high school.

At 21, I still found myself struggling with the being certain of my salvation. I was at church, and we had a guest speaker preaching on the difference between knowing about God, and knowing God. And that’s when it hit me. All of those years I had the head knowledge of what the bible says about God, but I didn’t truly have the heart knowledge of believing in God. So I was saved at 21, and by Dad baptized me when I was 22. All of those years of struggling and questioning what my purpose was here was erased because I knew that if I had of died when I was in those dark times when i was younger that I would’ve gone to hell. And I am so thankful today that God did keep me here and that we have a forgiving God.
 
December of 2020, my dad became sick and was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. While it was an extremely hard situation to go through and watch him go through, I saw God working in so many ways that year that just blew my mind. All of our medical bills were covered, our church provided the funds for us to get a new roof which was something my dad was stressed over because he didn’t want to leave us with the roof we had in such poor condition so that was a huge relief for him. God was so gracious to us throughout my dads sickness. There were so many parts of his battle that God protected us from going through. My dad fought right at a year and went home to be with the Lord in January of 2022.

After my dad passed, my brother went to word of life Florida to do first year, we went to visit him last February and I was immediately was convicted that I should go to word of life. I fought This really hard. For multiple reasons. I was in my last semester of school where I was getting my bachelors in business and was so ready to be done with school. I had a home bakery that was rapidly growing and I was in the process of expanding and couldn’t wait to be able to put all my focus into my business. I came up with all the excuses I could give to God of why I “couldn’t” go to word of life. But I eventually couldn’t fight it anymore. My family had been through so much over the past few years, and God had protected us from so much that we should’ve gone through with my dads sickness, that I was more afraid to ignore Gods call to come here for a year then I was to put everything on hold and come here.

I am so thankful that I surrendered to Gods call to do first year at Word of Life because it has now led to me being on Overflow Legacy. This past year has had such a big impact on my life. It’s renewed my love for worshipping the Lord through music and a passion for writing worship songs that I lost when my dad was sick. And I’m so thankful for the direction that God has pointed me in over this next year and can’t wait to see what he has in store.

John 14:1, Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Contact Information

anna.winters1@yahoo.com
Anna Winters
13247 Word of Life Dr,
Hudson, FL 34669
770-856-3012