The WOW Movement

Worship over Waukesha. Worship over World. “Our God is an AWESOME God” WOW!

The Heart of WOW

Starting in 2024 after I returned from overseas on the International Treasure Hunt, God gave me the acronym of “WOW” to embrace as I moved into my future in ministry! This “WOW” name had 3 meanings, and the 1st is in the name of “WOW” itself; you know when people say the word, “WOW!”? It’s when they are EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING. They are AMAZED, or in AWE!! This is the heart of the WOW movement; that people would become in GREATER AWE of who God is, having their faith reawakened to greater heights as they realize He’s even more amazing than they ever fathomed or thought before!! The aim is to awaken that awe of God through the 2 specific methods of WOW; Worship Over Waukesha & Worship Over World!

Worship Over Waukesha

Pictured here you can see the street map of the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin listed on the official waukesha-wi.gov website! This map includes 1,347 street names and the main goal of the Worship Over Waukesha initiative from the beginning was that over the course of many years, I would worship & pray over EVERY SINGLE STREET IN THIS ENTIRE CITY! From huge highways to little courts, each day, I throw all the remaining streets in a random generator and wherever I land, I go and find the Lord!! The entire premise for this journey comes out of Song of Solomon 3:2, where a lover is in desperate search of the one she loves, and it says she goes out into the street squares looking for him! This is the heart of WOW; to find God all over the city and encounter His love!  

Since the original start of WOW, it was discovered that this map is not a full list of Waukesha’s streets, so I pulled more streets from a second database and now have a list of 1,664 streets total, and the goal is to meet with God on all of them over the course of 5 years! As of this day of writing (May 7, 2026), 664 streets are done, and there are only 1,000 left to go now! If you would ever be interested in joining a WOW, I am always happy to bring friends along on the journey, as where 2 or 3 of us come together, God is there with us! I go nearly every day, so hopefully sometime we can go together! (: In the future, I would like to do a more comprehensive chronicle of some of the most amazing times of meeting with the Lord on the streets and the different eras of WOW, so stay tuned as that may be added here in the future! Until then though, my newsletters always give a few highlights of the most recent ones, so feel free to sign-up to hear what streets God has been taking me to recently! In addition to praying over the streets, the end goal is to see a 24/7 House of Prayer in Waukesha which you can read more about on the Oasis of Hope page!

Worship Over World

Pictured to the right you can see a logo I made for my ministry, the Nations Star! The 5 points of the nations star all correspond to a different continent and to one of the 5 focal people groups that God has moved my heart for the most deeply in the past, which are Nominal Christians, Fulani Muslims, The French World, Buddhists, and Outcasts & Forgotten Ones! Red represents America, Black represents Africa, Blue represents Europe, Yellow represents Asia, and Green represents Oceania!

In this current season (as of May 7, 2026), my involvement with ministry on an international scale has been less prominent, but since 2024 I have taken amazing trips to Paris for the 2024 Olympics to do an outreach with YWAM and I have also done a trip in Japan in 2025 revisiting the Jesus Cafe House in Osaka, but in this current time my involvement in Waukesha praying over the streets and beginning to start the Oasis of Hope have been my priority. However, my heart for the future is to eventually live overseas in a long-term capacity, likely in a French speaking context, whenever God blesses the timing and opens the doors! Until I am actually on the ground in other nations though, whether in more short-term trips or an eventual long-term capacity, continuing to keep the nations in prayer and giving financial support when able to current missionaries or people in need will be things I hope to do as often as possible, as God’s heart for the nations is very deep, and Scripture speaks deeply about having worship raise up from every nation, tribe, and tongue!!

WOW Chronicles Podcast

A place where all 3 definitions of WOW are brought together is in this, the WOW Chronicles podcast!!!! This podcast is offered in both audio and video mediums and has currently had 3 major series as part of it:

The Introduction Series - This was from Summer of 2024 to the end of 2024, and it was when I was first communicating my heart for WOW and episodes would be more spontaneous and topical depending on what I wanted to share about each week. At this time, my goal was to hopefully move more towards doing interviews with people, which may still happen in the future at some point, but at the time God shifted the direction to…

The Celebrate Church Tour - In 2025, God put it on my heart to visit EVERY CHURCH in Waukesha, so over 62 episodes, I made vlogs about 60 churches all over Waukesha (and 2 bonus churches around the world!), sharing my experiences and the positives at each one! This covered MANY denominations and the heart posture was to attend each church with not a heart of criticism but of celebration of how God is at work!

Musical Memories - In 2026 during Lent, God put it on my heart to do a 40 day vlog series sharing memories of my past songs written with Him. Each song has a story and I pray they can be an encouragement to people who take the time to listen to each one!

The WOW Chronicles podcast is currently in more of a hiatus, but the avenue still exists for potentially doing more things to communicate the awe & wonder of God in the future! Feel free to subscribe to the Youtube channel here, where you can find all previous episodes!

WOW Chronicles Podcast

WOW Chronicles Newsletters!

In this current era of The Lord Remembers Ministry, we will be sending out periodic newsletters sharing about all the things God has been up to both locally in Waukesha & globally around the world!! If you aren’t already on our mailing list, you can sign up below!! You can also find the archive of past newsletters on the Past Mission Endeavors page as well!

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