God has long been in the business of transforming loners, posers, screw-ups and cowards into bands of warriors. We were such a group of men drawn together by the message of Life and Freedom. We have all been impacted uniquely through Wild At Heart … and now our passion is to bring this into your world.
Our team is made up of men from a wide variety of vocations, experiences and churches in the Central Florida area. After having our lives irreversibly changed at Boot Camp events in Colorado, lead by the original Ransomed Heart/Wild At Heart team, we knew we had to see this message of freedom multiplied by bringing this experience to men in Florida and the Caribbean.
This message of the heart has deeply impacted our lives, our families, and our churches. We are convinced that God wants to awaken the heart of every man. We have banded together because we all believe in you—that you can become the man God created you to be.
Please join us. Come get your heart back.
Your life will never be the same!
Ransomed, Redeemed, & Restored
Jeff Marvin
Glen Roberts
Bob Ball
Kevin Humphrey
Mario Insua
Allan Humphrey
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Testimonials
A friend and I went to the “Wild at Heart” event in 2005. We both were positively affected in a great way. Being raised to be a “good Christian boy” the program showed me I could be a “man” as I was designed to be not as I was told to be by the church or anyone else. I have learned to be my own man and have come to understand I am not perfect or “right” except through Jesus.I would highly recommend the retreats to any man wanting to be set free from what is “expected” from the world so he can live as he was designed to live. Michael Watkins
To receive a new heart and a new spirit, Eze. 36:26, is not something that necessarily comes overnight. For me it was a process. GOD used the "Wild at Heart" men's retreat to initiate this process. And now I can emphatically say that, God has healed my heart and I honestly feel like I have been born again, again.
Justin
The Epic of the Wild at Heart Men’s Retreat
In the beginning of the early cool months of two thousand and seven under cloudy skies, a Band of Brothers disconnected from the Matrix of daily life to hear from their Master and Commander. Songs of victory, triumph and allegiance to their King echoed through the now hallowed halls of this meeting place. These men were warriors in every sense of the word, but not all of them knew or understood completely what that really meant.
All of that was about to change.
In that wood by the lake, the men were addressed by other warrior poets, not much different than themselves. Among them, the Captain and Shepherd of this hardened battery, revealed the depth of his heart for them and the purpose of this convocation. He had learned through other gatherings such as this with other brothers, how to remove his mask and personal defenses. He stood before them now, unguarded and as vulnerable as he had ever been in his life, yet protected and safe by the men who surrounded him.
He exposed his own weaknesses and wounds to show that he was really no different than they were. Many of his wounds were from long ago battles he could no longer remember, while some were inflicted by the very men who stood before him. He reached out to them now because he knew that he himself had inflicted wounds upon some of them and they all needed forgiveness and healing.
Other warriors told of their struggles and battles to show them that not all battles are won, but that the war is not over until the glorious Return of the King. So there was still a reason to love, to hope, to fight and to train. Hearing the stories of their brothers, other men were challenged to acknowledge their own masks and defenses and become vulnerable themselves. This armor had been forged out of the depths of these men’s hearts to cover the wounds they had sustained as young men. Their armor was designed, positioned and fastened to cover what many would see as weakness, yet it took great strength, courage and bravery to even begin to unbuckle their coverings.
Now with emotional armor removed, scrapes and scars inflicted by insult and injury lay raw and bleeding. The men began to dress one another’s wounds with prayer, words of wisdom and valor. This gathering had now become an infirmary to help heal hurts they didn’t understand or even realize they had. Wounds sustained from battles of long ago. The Balm of Gilead, provided by The Great Physician, flowed freely through the gathering and was healing the hurting spirit and soul of these warrior men, sons, brothers, fathers and husbands.
Through parable and poem, the curtain of the spirit realm was pulled back for the men to see the battle that raged on there. Their eyes were opened to the reality of something that most thought was merely fiction, but in truth was more tangible than anything they had ever witnessed before. There they saw, that as a result of their own personal wounds, they had succumbed to surrender their hearts to the enemy. They understood that the enemy’s plan to destroy them had been orchestrated long before they were even born.
A righteous anger now swelled deep inside these men to retrieve, protect and fight for their own hearts and the freedom they had once surrendered. They saw things with new eyes and heard things with new ears. They understood things that were once mysterious to them or simply forgotten. As the Word of God was spoken, they could hear the ring of a sword being unsheathed. A renewed sense of purpose was instilled within their hearts and minds. A new armor was now placed upon them that would carry them across this spiritual battlefield that lay before them.
As the sun broke through the cloudiness of those days in the woods, men who were broken and hurting emerged as soldiers who were restored, fortified and prepared for the fight for their lives and the lives of those they loved including one another.
Mission accomplished
David Riordan
Jeff Stone
Steve Smith
Chris Abston
Woody Wodsworth
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