Devine Glory Magazine Worshipper: Summer 2013 | Page 4

Submitted: Becky DeWitt

Pastor Veryl Howard is Woman
of God who ministers nationally and internationally. Her work in the Body of Christ is very
diverse as she is the founder of On a Mission
For Christ International Ministries, Hand to
Hand Global Ministry, and Faith Management & Talent Casting. She is known to many
as one of the most sought after managers and
pro-moters in the world of Gospel music. God opened a door
and granted favor to interview this awesome gift to the Body of
Christ.
Pastor Veryl is a well-traveled ambassador for Christ.
Her global work in ministry lists nations such as Guyana, Bermuda, Aruba, Trinidad, Israel, Benin/Kenya/Nairobi, Zimbabwe, Poland, Germany, Antigua, Amsterdam, St. Vincent &
Grenadines, Surinam, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Dominica, Petite
Martinique and Grenada to name a few. One of the statements
in Pastor Veryl’s bio release is “that the church is engrossed in
religion and not relationship that the outreach ministry has dissipated.” In our conversation with Pastor V. (what she likes to
be called), she shared more insight on the statement. “ The
Hand to Hand Global Ministry is an outreach ministry with
other pastors and apostles to provide assistance to people who
are in need. This is done with an apostolic anointing to reach
the total person. We don’t just want to go in preaching to them.
We try to see what their needs are and try to take a multifaceted approach to better the whole individual. Because if people
can’t eat, or don’t have proper drinking water, shoes, soap,
and basic essentials; it is kind of hard to sit there and talk to
them about Jesus especially when they don’t know where their
next meal is coming from.”
She also states, “It is
because the Body of Christ has
become so consumed with the
four wall of the church. How we
can continuously build within the
four walls but not necessarily
build with the plan of God and build with the ideology of man?
God gave a plan. In the Old Testament, when the tabernacle
was being build, God gave the plan to Moses and strategically
picked the workmen and they were given strict instruction from
the laying of the curtains to the placement of the silver. Some of
us in the Body of Christ have gotten off the instructions of
Christ. We have decided to take the plan into our hands from
our own mindset. So God is not running a lot of churches any
more. The emphasis is on how big my church is, how fashionable I am, or how bad the choir can sing. The emphasis is not
functioning under the five-fold ministry. It is very crucial when
you start losing salvation elements with respect tot the house of
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God. It becomes a handicap house. The outreach component is
crucial. Jesus told us to go out and get His lost sheep. If we are
sitting in the four wall every Sunday and getting full and we
are not going our spreading what God has put inside us, then
we are not doing what God has called us to do, which is to
make disciples. We have to get out of the selfish mode, a me
mode, an I mode and an individualistic mode. We have to move
into a Kingdom mindset. If my brother or sister is suffering
right next door to me and they are a part of the Kingdom, it
affects me because we are all citizens of the Kingdom. I can’t
ignore or negate the fact that my brother or sister is suffering
as well. We have to get back to the foundations. We have to get
the love back into church.”
Pastor V. is a published author of two books with uncommon titles. Even her website for the books is uncommon http://www.havesumfaith.com. Her first book, God Hears A
Teacher Cry, is about teaching from a spiritual perspective.
“The Lord started dealing with my about the trials and issues
and stuff that our young people go through. It is so magnified
as the enemy has loosed a death assignment on our young people. If they got a hold of who Jesus is and get on fire, there
would not be anything that you cannot do with
them. God told me to write about the spiritual issue
that our young people were faced with in today’s
society. I was also to address the issues that the
teachers are faced with. God told me that I could
not teach like a regular teacher. I had to teach in
the spirit. I had to be sensitive and be God’s teacher. I was crying out to God because I taught in the hood; where
kids were carrying guns and knives, lived in conditions where
there were twelve people in a one bedroom, were in jail for
murder and came to class with an ankle brace-let on Monday.
There was one student who showed up at my house because he
was tired of the shootings that were in front his house all the
time. One of my students’ water broke. The Lord told me to
write the book in a way that the students, parents, and teachers
would be encouraged and really understand this warfare. I
think that the book was written prematurely be-cause it was
before Colorado and Connecticut. But God had been speaking
to me way before about the spiritual warfare and death assignment on our young people.”
Pastor V’s most recent book, God Is
My Ticket Out Of The Ghetto, was birthed out
of her own disappointments from having a sectional mindset when God is unlimited in His
existence. “ God told me that my mindset was
microscopic and that I had put Him in the box.
He was limit-less, eternal and infinite and I tried
to make Him finite. I functioned too much in