The way
The Way offers the opportunity to deliver the message of God’s Salvation and Discipleship to new communities locally and internationally. The Way is a unique opportunity for guests to remove themselves from the busyness of the world, by staying at a host site for three days. The format of the three days allows attendees to have time for Self-reflection, Christ-reflection, and Discipleship.
During the three days, the guests hear a series of talks, given by team members who are past alumni from different locations. The speakers are given an outline of the teaching points for their talk. Each speaker shares their own personal testimony interwoven throughout the talk. These testimonies are life examples of the speakers’ experiences that tie directly to the outlines. We see the intervention of God’s love in the outcome.
Guests and team members leave more focused on their own priorities, God’s priorities for their life and ways they can apply those priorities in their daily lives. After the 3 days, we see are new Christians and renewed Christians.
The more common versions of these 3-day movements are the Walk to Emmaus, The Brethren Way of Christ, The Via De Cristo, The Great Banquet, the teenage version known as The Awakening and the prison version known as Kairos.
At the conclusion of the weekend, participants are challenged to take what they have learned, to continue personal and spiritual development, through accountability groups (Bible studies), within their own Bible believing churches.
The Way has an interesting history with a few twists and turns internationally. CSI Ministries, in Kokomo, Indiana, is a well-established non-profit that helps bring mission groups to other places. CSI first became involved with The Great Banquet when a staff member at CSI, approached a few individuals about the possibility of CSI Jamaica becoming a host site for a 3-day event. A group was formed to research which 3-day ministry could be used. CSI Jamaica became the host site for the Great Banquet in January 2013. The fruits of this outreach have given CSI a tool to reach people by unifying churches and sharing with the Jamaican people how to share God’s love in a new and different way.
One of the American team members, then visited Northern Ireland for a youth outreach trip. After returning to the states, she found there were 2 other ladies, also from her hometown in Indiana, who had recently visited the same area of NI. Was that a coincidence? Their hearts had connected with the N. Irish people. They began to meet and pray, discussing the possibility of taking the 3-day weekend to NI, as had been done in Jamaica. Through their personal relationships with people in NI, these 3 ladies, along with 3 others, traveled back to NI, in 2013, to begin setting the groundwork. They met with 42 different N. Irish over a week of lunch, teas and suppers. The purpose and benefit of the 3-day weekend was shared. Their prayer request: if 6 N. Irish agreed to come to Indiana, to experience the Great Banquet, they would continue pursuing where they felt God was leading. Exactly 6 of 42 NI said yes. Wow God!!
As the outreach of the 3-day event had grown to Jamaica and N. Ireland, using the Great Banquet model, the organizers realized the movement needed the flexibility to adapt to different cultures, in regard to logistical and cultural aspects of each country. To accomplish this need and flexibility, without violating any copyright laws, a new 3-day movement, would need to be created. Through much prayer and faith, The Way was written.
This movement, like other 3-day versions, follows a distinct pattern with Biblical content, yet has the flexibility to adapt to different cultures. The Way is centered on John 14:6 when Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.” The Way Castlewellan, Northern Ireland began in 2014 as the Great Banquet, but continued in February 2015 as The Way. The Way Highgate, Jamaica began as the Great Banquet in 2013, but then switched to The Way in August 2016. The Way Goshen, Indiana began in April 2016. The Way Nature Coast, Florida began in October 2018.
During the three days, the guests hear a series of talks, given by team members who are past alumni from different locations. The speakers are given an outline of the teaching points for their talk. Each speaker shares their own personal testimony interwoven throughout the talk. These testimonies are life examples of the speakers’ experiences that tie directly to the outlines. We see the intervention of God’s love in the outcome.
Guests and team members leave more focused on their own priorities, God’s priorities for their life and ways they can apply those priorities in their daily lives. After the 3 days, we see are new Christians and renewed Christians.
The more common versions of these 3-day movements are the Walk to Emmaus, The Brethren Way of Christ, The Via De Cristo, The Great Banquet, the teenage version known as The Awakening and the prison version known as Kairos.
At the conclusion of the weekend, participants are challenged to take what they have learned, to continue personal and spiritual development, through accountability groups (Bible studies), within their own Bible believing churches.
The Way has an interesting history with a few twists and turns internationally. CSI Ministries, in Kokomo, Indiana, is a well-established non-profit that helps bring mission groups to other places. CSI first became involved with The Great Banquet when a staff member at CSI, approached a few individuals about the possibility of CSI Jamaica becoming a host site for a 3-day event. A group was formed to research which 3-day ministry could be used. CSI Jamaica became the host site for the Great Banquet in January 2013. The fruits of this outreach have given CSI a tool to reach people by unifying churches and sharing with the Jamaican people how to share God’s love in a new and different way.
One of the American team members, then visited Northern Ireland for a youth outreach trip. After returning to the states, she found there were 2 other ladies, also from her hometown in Indiana, who had recently visited the same area of NI. Was that a coincidence? Their hearts had connected with the N. Irish people. They began to meet and pray, discussing the possibility of taking the 3-day weekend to NI, as had been done in Jamaica. Through their personal relationships with people in NI, these 3 ladies, along with 3 others, traveled back to NI, in 2013, to begin setting the groundwork. They met with 42 different N. Irish over a week of lunch, teas and suppers. The purpose and benefit of the 3-day weekend was shared. Their prayer request: if 6 N. Irish agreed to come to Indiana, to experience the Great Banquet, they would continue pursuing where they felt God was leading. Exactly 6 of 42 NI said yes. Wow God!!
As the outreach of the 3-day event had grown to Jamaica and N. Ireland, using the Great Banquet model, the organizers realized the movement needed the flexibility to adapt to different cultures, in regard to logistical and cultural aspects of each country. To accomplish this need and flexibility, without violating any copyright laws, a new 3-day movement, would need to be created. Through much prayer and faith, The Way was written.
This movement, like other 3-day versions, follows a distinct pattern with Biblical content, yet has the flexibility to adapt to different cultures. The Way is centered on John 14:6 when Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.” The Way Castlewellan, Northern Ireland began in 2014 as the Great Banquet, but continued in February 2015 as The Way. The Way Highgate, Jamaica began as the Great Banquet in 2013, but then switched to The Way in August 2016. The Way Goshen, Indiana began in April 2016. The Way Nature Coast, Florida began in October 2018.