After seeing the movie, "Pay it Forward," the Lord woke me up one Saturday morning in February 2003 around 4:00a.m. God laid it on my heart to re-visit an area of passion in my life...a "women’s retreat on wheels." I remember sitting up and grabbing my notebook and pencil, which I kept beside my bed - I couldn’t write the vision down fast enough.

The ministry was to be called, "Pass It On." The Lord told me whom to contact to help get it started: Erin Campbell, Sharon McEntee and Pam Stricker. He told me we were to be an outreach ministry, serving women in the churches as the Holy Spirit "rekindled" hearts. We were to provide the speakers, the prayer team, the worship team, and the registration flyers for the retreats. The host church would be responsible for providing the food and promoting the retreat. We would nickname ourselves “POM” as we would be the cheerleaders, encouraging women to "keep on keepin’ on" with their walk of faith.

I was given three guidelines for the ministry to follow...keep it fun, keep it simple and keep it reproducible. I was also to include the words to the old campfire song, "Pass It On," because it did “only take a spark to get a fire going.” I recognized a ripple effect within my own life when that spark ignited; I had such a desire to pass on the love of Jesus to others. After all…someone loved me enough to pass it on.

So, Pass It On Ministries began three years ago. Over the years, some of the faces have changed as the ministry has grown, but the guidelines from the Lord have remained the same. We continue to focus on passing on the love of Jesus in a fun, simple, and reproducible way, encouraging women to follow the Great Commission: