PATH Missionary Program

Missionaries who dedicate time to help PATH to ignite a great awakening through prayer, unity and obeying the Great Commission.
The program includes a $14,000 p.a. salary and invaluable mentoring by senior Christian leaders, each with decades of experience in walking with Christ and extending His Kingdom around the world. See the list of mentors, their bios and their topics below.

We encourage young adults to apply to join the PATH Missionary program and to serve for 6 or 12 months:

  • Young adults to give 6 or 12 months to serve in the movement of hope before going to college; and
  • After finishing college and before they start their career.

Responsibilities

  • To help and support PATH to ‘link arms’ with groups of Christians who have the same heart to ignite a great awakening through prayer, unity and outreach.
  • A priority will be to link arms with groups of Gen Z Christians.
  • To serve and support:
    1. The growth of the 30 Minute Prayer Challenge across the nation;
    2. Solemn Assembly prayer gatherings in every state, county and city;
    3. Christian groups who want to leverage off the PATH ‘best practice’ e.g. the City/County model to reach their community with the gospel of Jesus Christ;
    4. PATH regional and national prayer calls;
    5. State, county and city PATH teams to work with national partners such as Rooftop Encounters, Gloo and Bless Every Home; and
    6. PATH leaders in areas such as social media, IT, marketing and PR.
  • Look to recruit more PATH Missionaries, especially Gen Zs.
  • Each missionary will be trained to raise half their salary (i.e. $7,000 for a 12 month commitment), and the other $7,000 will be provided from a scholarship fund.

Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity to:

    • Help ignite a great awakening across America, that we believe will sweep around the world;
    • Be mentored and trained by senior Christian leaders in character building, leadership and various skills such as, emotional intelligence, communication, organization and marketing and PR;
    • Work with the state PATH coordinator who will help guide your efforts as you meet with churches, ministries and various other parts of the Church;
    • Learn and develop a variety of tools and means to encourage people to pray, unify and share God’s love with ‘Lost and Broken’ people, including local prayer groups, personal contact, flyers, social media, ‘Tents of Meeting,’ sports activities, events, etc. You will be encouraged to seek the Lord for direction and to use your own initiative and creativity;
    • Deepen your faith, prayer life and your outreach skills. Also, through the mentoring program, you will learn invaluable lessons of how to have a strong walk with Christ, learn to triumph in adversity, pray the promises of God and strengthen yourself in your faith. In addition, you will build a stronger character and learn business skills and abilities to help you be more effective as you move on to complete your education or take the first step of your professional career; and
    • Opportunity to practice and develop priceless skills and abilities before entering college or the professional workforce for the first time.

Requirements

  • Strong commitment to your personal belief in Jesus Christ.
  • Passion to be used by God.
  • Care and concern for people.
  • Desire to deepen your personal walk with the Lord and focus on strengthening your Christian character prior to furthering your education or career.
  • Willingness to learn how to recruit partners to pray and support you financially.
  • Enthusiasm for reaching people for Christ, especially Generation Z.
  • Social media and other tech skills relevant to outreach.
  • Ability to meet face to face with individuals and small groups in person and by video conference.
  • Commitment to living a lifestyle commensurate with biblical standards.

Apply to join the PATH Missionary Program by clicking the button below, complete the application form and include a letter explaining why you want to join the program and why you feel you are qualified for a place on the program.

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List of Mentors

All of our mentors have been walking with Christ for over 40 years and have a wealth of experience and knowledge. They are from a cross section of the Church and ethnicities – Evangelical, Catholic, Pentecostal…, African American, Latino, Caucasian…
The most important thing is that they love God with all their heart, and long to see Jesus Christ glorified in a great awakening across America and around the world.

Our Prayer at the Heart (PATH) mentors will share their knowledge and experience of walking with Christ and in business, during 30minute training sessions on every weekday 9:00am-9:30am ET. Each session will have 15–20 minutes of teaching followed by 15-10 minutes of Q & A. There will also be the opportunity for local mentoring from those serving with PATH.

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Doug is Chairman – Prayer at the Heart

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Bp. Garry and LaDawn Bryant

Garry is Vice Chairman – Prayer at the Heart

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Gerard and Jeannie Long

Executive Director – Prayer at the Heart

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Joe Soltis

Board Member – Prayer at the Heart

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

John Miranda

Board Member – Prayer at the Heart

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Tossie Wiley, JR.

PATH Coordinator OH
Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Dr. Joe and Cindi Ferrini

Advisory Team Leader – PATH NE Ohio

Dr. P. Douglas and Barbara Small

Doug is Chairman – Prayer at the Heart

P. Douglas Small has served as pastor, educator, conference speaker, and consultant in prayer ministries and city-reaching. He is an ordained bishop with the Church of God. He holds a BA degree in Christian Ministries, an M. A. degree in Biblical Studies, a second M. A. degree in Church Administration, and a Ph. D. degree in Biblical Studies. Pastors across the nation have used his video and audio products, along with teaching kits and books, for enrichment and ministry. He is an award-winning author and a popular speaker at pastors and leadership conferences, churches, ministry conventions, family retreats, and gatherings for prayer and spiritual awakening. Increasingly, he is involved in national prayer networks and mobilization, with a Great Awakening in view.
Doug and Barbara have five children, twenty grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Barbara shares the ministry with Doug and they often travel and serve together.

Mentoring Topics

Dr. Doug Small

Spiritual – 1.A Healthy Theology of Prayer 2. Praying the Lord’s Prayer – A New Perspective; 3. Bad Praying – James

Business – 1. The Beatitudes – Their Dynamic Movement 2. Blessings and Boundaries 3. A Trajectory of Blessing – Psalm 1

Barbara Small

Mentoring Topics

Spiritual – To be confirmed.

Business – To be confirmed.

Bp. Garry and LaDawn Bryant

Garry is Vice Chairman – Prayer at the Heart

Bp. Garry is the Executive Director of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) evangelism team. More details to follow.

Mentoring Topics

Bp. Garry Bryant

Spiritual –

  1. Great Command
  2. Great Commission
  3. Holiness

Business –

  1. Financial Integrity
  2. Developing Healthy Teams
  3. The Role of Administration

LaDawn Bryant

Spiritual –

  1. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me – Love, God (Exodus 20)
  2. Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it – (Proverbs 4:23)
  3. I Choose joy! I do not grieve for the joy of the Lord is my strength! (Nehemiah 8:10)

Business –

  1. Discover Purpose and Stay Focused
  2. Regardless of passion, pursuit, purpose or profession, humility and a servant’s heart are the winning posture.
  3. God loves a cheerful giver!

Gerard and Jeannie Long

Executive Director – Prayer at the Heart

Gerard is a former National Director of Alpha USA, an author, pastor, businessman (30 years with banking giant HSBC), and founder of one and CEO of two non-profit organizations. His deepest brokenness, in the suicide of his beloved son Alex in 2005, and the tragic passing of his beautiful daughter Rebecca in 2014, is woven into his powerful testimony and calling. His own broken heart lead to the launch of non-profit, Awakening to God Ministries (ATG) to help the suffering in the US and around the world. In 2019, Gerard died for 30 minutes from a cardiac arrest! He is humbled and grateful that God called him to lead Prayer at the Heart with a mission, to ignite a great awakening out of a national movement of unified, humble, desperate prayer and action. The vision is for 63 million people to come to faith and for a transformation of the nation. Gerard has prayed for a great awakening since having an encounter with God in 1980.

Gerard and Jeannie have been married for over 43 years, and their son Ben and Annie gave birth to their first grandson, Charlie, in 2023. Jeannie is a speaker and the author of ‘Running from the Heart’ (a devotional based on Rebecca’s journals, sharing her deep walk with Christ). Together, they share the ministry.

They have featured on TV, radio, and in conferences, and in print media. They have multiple social media channels, and the ATG ministry has over 500,000 followers on Facebook.

Mentoring Topics

Gerard Long

Spiritual –

  1. Why do Christians suffer?
  2. How to strengthen yourself in the Lord
  3. Why is Proverbs 4:23 a life verse

Business –

  1. Emotional Intelligence
  2. Project Management
  3. Attention to Detail

Jeannie Long

Spiritual –

  1. How do you continue on with a broken heart?
  2. Depression and Darkness
  3. God’s Precious Promises

Business –

  1. Finding Joy in my Day
  2. Patience
  3. What gets you, gets you!

Joe Soltis

Board Member – Prayer at the Heart

Joe Soltis is a successful serial entrepreneur, CEO of one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, ChoiceLocal, which has been rated as a top workplace 7 years running.  His company has been recognized as the leading marketing agency in the world serving franchise systems.  ChoiceLocal is a faith-based business with the stated mission of Helping Others.

Joe felt called to bring Prayer at the Heart (PATH) into existence at the same time that God was inspiring Doug Small and several others, from different Christian denominations and geographies, to do the same. After praying together, PATH was birthed in 2021.

He and his wife, Becky, have 6 wonderful children. Becky and Joe also lost a son, Ben, late into a pregnancy. Out of that loss, Joe founded several purpose-driven businesses with the central mission of helping others, helping teammates, helping customers and patients, as well as giving back to help those in need. Joe is a firm believer in using business as a tool to help and serve others and give back. Joe has been quoted on Forbes, featured in Entrepreneur, LA Weekly, Influencive, and featured in dozens of business publications on purpose-driven business. He believes that the winners of business in the future will be those that run purpose-driven businesses that do good and do well.

John Miranda

Board Member – Prayer at the Heart

John Miranda, Chief Operating Officer of Alphaport, Incorporated, co-founded the company with his wife, Rosella, in 1999. Alphaport originated as a service company offering science and technology educational programs to students K through 12. Today, Alphaport is an Aerospace engineering technology company providing product and services that range from Propulsion Systems for Commercial Space Vehicles to Safety Contracts across the country.

John earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Dayton and subsequently held manufacturing lead positions at General Electric (GE) Aircraft Engines and GE Nuclear.
John is extremely passionate to be involved with an Industry/Education Movement co-laboring with leaders from the seven mountains of key societal impact to transform Education.

Mentoring Topics

Spiritual

  1. Unity of the Body, John 17
  2. Gift Handler
  3. Let Go and Let God

Business

  1. The Power of Networking
  2. Integrating Personal and Business Missions
  3. Sustainable Transformation and Legacy usinesses that do good and do well.

Tossie Wiley, JR.

PATH Coordinator OH

Tossie Wiley, Jr. graduated from Oberlin College in 1969 with a B.A. Degree in Government. He later received his Juris Doctorate Degree in 1975 from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and practiced law from 1975 to 2007. In 2007, he was appointed as a Magistrate Judge in the Cleveland Municipal Court where he served for twelve years before retirement in 2019.

After receiving Jesus into his life in 1982, Tossie was ordained into the Ministry of the Gospel in 1986; and he pastored a local church in Cleveland, Ohio from 1990 to 2006. He later served as an Associate Pastor and a House Church planter and overseer. Presently he is functioning as a leader in the prayer movement in Northeast Ohio and beyond.

Tossie is married to Rita, his partner in ministry throughout the years, and they have four children and five grandchildren.

Mentoring Topics

Spiritual –

  1.  Unity of the Body, John 17
  2. Gift Handler
  3. Let Go and Let God

Business –

  1. The Power of Networking
  2. Integrating Personal and Business Missions
  3. Sustainable Transformation and Legacy

Dr. Joe and Cindi Ferrini

Advisory Team Leader – PATH NE Ohio

Joe is a retired dentist who practiced dentistry for 42 years. He and Cindi are on self-supporting staff with Cru.
Cindi is a speaker and author (Balancing the Active Life, Get it Together, No Regrets, Pause for Prayer).
Together they authored Unexpected Journey-When Special Needs Change Our Course (and related blogs for Focus on the Family and FamilyLife) and Love All-ways – Embracing the Special Needs Journey Together. The Ferrini’s live in Cleveland, Ohio with one child at home, two married daughters, two sons-in-law, and grandchildren living nearby. They have been guests on such radio broadcasts as Focus on the Family and Family Life, and host My Marriage Matters on occasional Monday mornings on Cleveland radio 103.3FM WCRF at 6:30 a.m.: www.moodyradio.org/Cleveland.

Mentoring Topics

Dr. Joe Ferrini

Spiritual –

  1. The Call of the Great Commission.
  2. City Reaching: A guide to community transformation.
  3. How to lead someone to Christ.

Business –

  1. Finances; financial planning – establishing financial freedom.
  2. Delegation; an essential for personal and business growth.
  3. The importance of rest, relaxation, refreshment and fun

Cindi Ferrini

Spiritual –

  1. Where do I start to balance life and why?
  2. The secret of balancing life and how to start with myself
  3.  Discipline, Balancing Life, Setting Goals and Applying these to my life

Business –

  1. Family and relationships
  2. Business, work, home
  3. Ministry, calling, community
“Whenever God determines to do a great work, He first sets His people to pray” (C. Spurgeon). This reliable principle begs the question: “How does God mobilize his people to heartfelt prayer?” Most importantly, how does God move Christian leaders who shepherd His church to unite in fervent, persistent, biblically focused prayer for the fulfillment of His purposes? By two things mainly: 1) distress over the degradation of the church and the surrounding culture and 2) hope that God will pour out His Spirit on his church and fill it with His fulness until it overflows with transformative impact on society. Many believers are distressed at the current state of things. At the same time, there is much reason to hope for God’s divine intervention in response to passionate, biblically guided prayer.

Believers across America now mourn the debility of the church; its vitality is faltering, its impact fading, its mission neglected, and its devotion to God being undercut by love for this world. Right now we are enduring the largest and fastest religious shift in American history. Its scope is greater than every previous spiritual awakening in our history combined, only in the opposite direction. Christians are being confronted by “spiritual forces of evil” (Eph. 6:12) operating from the heavenly realms that boldly infiltrate every aspect of society, even the church. These dark powers aim to 1) frustrate God’s purpose to bless all peoples on earth through Christ with countless benefits, including righteousness, peace, joy, and justice, and 2)
inflict endless varieties of misery on everyone. When spiritual decline and cultural decay prevail, God’s people rise up to seek the Lord in prayer as the fountain of every blessing, asking him to fill the earth with his glory, pour out His Holy Spirit, inspire his church, and deliver people and cultures from innumerable troubles. Now is the time to pray with desperation for spiritual and cultural renewal, for divine intervention, for the fulfillment of God’s purposes for his church and his creation in Northeast Ohio.

Christian leaders, especially pastors, have a heightened responsibility to press into God with prayer for the church. Biblical precedent shows that gathering church leaders together to engage in heartfelt prayer for the welfare of their community often initiates widespread spiritual and social renewal both in church and society (2 Chron. 7:13-14; 15:8-10; 34:29-32). New Testament accounts show that when Christian leaders unite in prayer, often in response to social and/or spiritual crises, spiritual awakening and gospel advance follow (Acts 1:13-14; 2:1-4; 4:23-31; 13:1-3).

Jesus himself instills expectation of an outpouring of God’s Spirit in response to prayer with this promise: “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13). Our Father in heaven is especially ready to pour out upon us the blessing we most need and long for, the very Spirit of God who imparts divine life, wisdom, and virtue.

With all this in mind, now is the time for Christian leaders across Northeast Ohio to come together to seek the Lord with biblically grounded, Christ-directed, wholehearted prayer for a God-given spiritual awakening. The trumpet of God is blaring! He is calling us to pray! Join Christian leaders from across our region to humble ourselves, seek the Lord’s face, and be willing to respond through His intervening grace to any changes He calls us to make! (Psalm 110:3)

The Gathering is an extension of the nationwide PATH (Prayer at the Heart) initiative piloted recently in Northeast Ohio. Put The Gathering on your calendar: Sunday, September 24, 6 pm, Calvary Chapel of Cleveland, 709 Brook Park Road, Brooklyn Heights, OH.