Ambassador of The Way Caravan - Corps Notes -January 11, 1977
Ambassador of The Way Caravan January 11, 1977 A number of months ago I asked Donnie Fugit to recapture for me, with the best of his ability, the original “Ambassador of The Way Caravan.” The one that preceded the first WOW’s in the fall of 1971 at the time of the Rock of Ages. Wasn’t it ‘71? That summer I felt in my heart I would like to send out a group of people just to do a test run. Simply send them from one area to another and start them out at some difficult places. I started them out at what I thought was the most difficult place I could think of at the time and that was Springfield, Missouri, because that was solidly Assemblies of God, the headquarters up there, Pentecostal. I just thought it would be sort of nice to see if we could infiltrate that and what would happen when our people hit the town. At that time I asked Donnie Fugit if he would head up the group. I wrote letters to all of our Advanced Class grads, because everybody had to be an Advanced Class grad, I think, to make it. And then Donnie wrote this up and I would very much like to share it tonight because I think it needs to go on the tape and on the film for our people for the future. An individual reads what was written by Donnie Fugit: In the spring of 1971 Dr. Wierwille sent an invitation to all Advanced Class grads of Power for Abundant Living to be a part of the original and pilot “Ambassador of The Way” Caravan. Responding by a letter to Dr. Wierwille, eleven saints accepted from around the country. Each Ambassador was sent a letter of accept-ance welcoming them, telling them to meet at the Fair’s home in Wichita, Kansas on June 4th. In the letter of acceptance was a set of suggestions of what to bring for ladies and for men. We were told to furnish our own money, only bring one suitcase or a large backpack, and one book, our Bible. Also Miss Barbara Fair, Dale Fair’s daughter, was asked in her letter of acceptance to be coordinator of the women of The Way Caravan. Donnie Fugit was to b
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one extra day, we still did not get a class together in Nashville. July19th we left for International. The night before we left Nashville, we weren’t all that happy, until we read in I Corinthians 15, which crescendos in verse 58, which says, “Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” There were people at the park most of the time, and so were we. We stayed at a KOA camp outside of town. Even though we stayed for one extra day, we still did not get a class together in Nashville. 415 July19 th we left for International. The night before we left Nashville, we weren’t all that happy, until we read in I Corinthians 15, which crescendos in verse 58, which says, “Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmu