As a new podcast begins with this ministry, based on Dwayna’s book, ‘Happiness No Man Required’ with 50 tips for single women, how wonderful that Dwayna has begun a new outreach to the people of beautiful Miami Beach! 200 of these tracts in Spanish were given out to Hispanics, and this new ministry has begun, which will be a yearly outreach! It is truly a ‘Happiness: No Man Required’ life with God and so many blessings yet to come!
I cannot tell you how happy I feel! It was like being back in Venice Beach, CA, as my favorite people group to reach on earth to tell about Jesus are the New Agers. I had pre-shipped a box of these books by my friend, Warren Smith, to where I sm staying, and I headed out in prayer this morning. I attribute it to prayer that God made every single person open.
Every single New Ager took it (and most truly leaders in the New Age Movement here) and promised to read it. It has been so interesting today and so wonderful to realize that, once again, the Holy Spirit in me and Jesus in me is so much stronger than the other spirits.
I have to head back out now to tip a “snake handler” in the promenade, as he also took a book and promised to read it, and I needed to come back to get a few dollars to tip him for telling us about all the snakes, which, of course, the people here think are sacred. Just a few dollars will mean a lot to him, as he works with a nonprofit here in educating people on the snakes in Sedona, AZ. I am someone who absolutely hates snakes, and I promised to be back to tip him (for keeping them away from me)! Photos of that and the whole, wonderful day here in missions are posted with more details HERE. I whispered a little prayer every time I went into some highly, occult place and said, “Jesus, be with me,” and He was. It was such a wonderful time in missions!
Lighting the Way has been partnering with Christy Darlington and her ministry, Witnesses for Jesus, since 2006 through materials Christy has written specifically for witnessing to Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, along with their bi-annual table outreach outside Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Dwayna flew to Salt Lake City to work with Christy and the team at the table outreach to Mormons outside the Temple for their 2025 fall, International Mormon Convention, and it was exciting!
Photos, along with the true beliefs of Mormonism are posted here on the ministry blog.
Here is a video of Day One (in the rain), as Dwayna upset an elder…
Here is an update, along with photos, on the last day of the International Mormon Convention and conversations Dwayna and the team had about Jesus.
This is an ongoing table outreach, led by Christy Darlington, each fall and spring outside the Mormon Temple in outreach to Mormons by giving them specific materials to show them the difference between Mormonism and the true Gospel of the real Jesus Christ.
We have officially begun a new outreach location in partnership with Joe and his team in Whittier, CA, who are also setting up on Saturdays in Seal Beach, CA (as our other outreach team sets up on Sunday afternoons after church). After really getting to know Joe and realizing he loves sound doctrine, as well as meeting his beautiful wife, it is with excitement that I announce we are now working together to reach one person at a time with the saving gospel of Jesus in Whittier, CA, with yet another outreach on Saturdays in Seal Beach, CA, Of course, everyone is also invited to Joe’s church or a good, local church in the area, as we always work with the local churches.
This team gives out free waters and small bags of chips to anyone who stops. In addition, they are now making available the tracts, booklets, Bibles and books we shipped them–with materials now specifically for Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Christians, New Agers…and booklets by John Blanchard for atheists/agnostics with titles like “Can We Be Good Without God?’ They already have a beautiful canopy and signs, but they are adding a new sign, soon to come, with “A Free Gift for You” simply written on it, which is what we have in all of our outreach locations.
This team has a lot of zeal. The leader, Joe, texted me and said that on his birthday he just had to go set up the outreach table this month to tell others about the God who gave him life and has blessed him with one more year. This reminds me of the zeal team members of our other Seal Beach outreach have, as well as the teams in Atlanta…and NYC…as it is true! True life is in celebration of Jesus.
In Whittier, the mission field is mainly to Hispanics and English speaking people–from tourists to locals. There is more of an international scope when they set up in Seal Beach. They stay very busy. I asked, “When you leave each time, your heart is filled with joy, right?” He said, “Oh, without a doubt, and it is a deep joy like no other!”
More updates soon to come.
We have officially begun a new outreach location in partnership with Joe and his team in Whittier, CA, who are also setting up on Saturdays in Seal Beach, CA (as our other outreach team sets up on Sunday afternoons after church). After really getting to know Joe and realizing he loves sound doctrine, as well as meeting his beautiful wife, it is with excitement that I announce we are now working together to reach one person at a time with the saving gospel of Jesus in Whittier, CA, with yet another outreach on Saturdays in Seal Beach, CA, Of course, everyone is also invited to Joe’s church or a good, local church in the area, as we always work with the local churches.
This team gives out free waters and small bags of chips to anyone who stops. In addition, they are now making available the tracts, booklets, Bibles and books we shipped them–with materials now specifically for Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Christians, New Agers…and booklets by John Blanchard for atheists/agnostics with titles like “Can We Be Good Without God?’ They already have a beautiful canopy and signs, but they are adding a new sign, soon to come, with “A Free Gift for You” simply written on it, which is what we have in all of our outreach locations.
This team has a lot of zeal. The leader, Joe, texted me and said that on his birthday he just had to go set up the outreach table this month to tell others about the God who gave him life and has blessed him with one more year. This reminds me of the zeal team members of our other Seal Beach outreach have, as well as the teams in Atlanta…and NYC…as it is true! True life is in celebration of Jesus.
In Whittier, the mission field is mainly to Hispanics and English speaking people–from tourists to locals. There is more of an international scope when they set up in Seal Beach. They stay very busy. I asked, “When you leave each time, your heart is filled with joy, right?” He said, “Oh, without a doubt, and it is a deep joy like no other!”
More updates soon to come.
In 2004 we began a Lighting the Way outreach in West Hollywood, right beside the AIDS testing and the homosexual youth handing out condoms—We had a “Heart for Him” table on Santa Monica Blvd. right outside the gay bars…and never got charged with a single hate crime, as people stopped to talk about Jesus, and we shared God’s love without compromising on what the Bible teaches.
On behalf of any Christians who had been rude and self-righteous toward the gay community and pedophile priests, we had a sign reading, “We are sorry for the way we have mistreated you.”
As the years passed, it got more dangerous with shootings in West Hollywood, so we stopped in 2010, but this was another great memory. No science has ever proven a gay gene. There is no gay gene. Yet, to people who struggle in this area it does feel like they were born that way. What the media does not report is how many men and women who DO get victory in this area, and we worked with many of them.
The key to the Christian life for all of us is self-denial. And God is out to heal the “why” behind our sin, and we all have to be willing to face it in order to let God heal the “why” to walk instead in a life free from sin and shame. Just because we want something does not make it right, and that is just the nature of the flesh and sin in all of us. To follow Jesus is to choose newness of life—the same message for us all anywhere, including West Hollywood.
6 QUESTIONS EVERY GAY PERSON SHOULD ASK
Lighting the Way began with the only Christian table on Ocean Front Walk in Venice Beach, CA, in 2002. Alongside psychics, tarot card readers, Hindu tables, Atheists United, Scientologists and Hare Krishna parades, Dwayna Litz started the only Christian table on the boardwalk in 2002 as a missionary, and this began as a church-wide ministry of Grace Community Church where John MacArthur is pastor. Dwayna had just moved from Nashville to Los Angeles to become a member of Grace Community when, six months later, this outreach began.
With a sign reading, “Come Find Out What God Has to Say About Your Future” and a banner reading, “A Free Gift for You,” instead of reading palms or tarot cards, we read people what the Bible says about how to have eternal life through Jesus. We got the 501c3 in 2003, and Lighting the Way began growing internationally.
Working with youth groups from churches all throughout the area, this outreach’s purpose began by meeting people right where they are, bringing the church to the lost, and this is what LTW still does in every outreach location. We also fed the neighborhood each Saturday in what was then called “the homeless capital of the world.”
Unlike other ministries of evangelism, LTW began by using no “evangelism scripts” and still does not today. With a deep scope of alphabetized articles in file bins, books and tracts written specifically for reaching New Agers, Moslems, atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons…we not only share the Gospel, but we define terms to explain what the Gospel means. Sermons are also available on CD from Walter Martin, the original Bible Answer Man, explaining anything from reincarnation to psychic phenomena from a Christian perspective.
This outreach location is still going strong today, as we partner with the Venice Beach Bible Ministry on the boardwalk every weekend as an outreach of evangelism based on apologetics. All materials are free—Bibles, tracts, books and articles specifically for people of all belief systems and religions to shine a light for the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a place known for its occult spirituality, Venice Beach, CA.
More photos of our Venice Beach outreach in action are here.
Even more photos from recent years are posted here.
Mike (in the blue) has worked with us in this ministry since 2003 at Venice Beach. God has put it on his heart to knock on doors all throughout his neighborhood in Los Alamitos to drop off a “free gift” to anyone who wants a little packet with either a DVD of the “Jesus Film” or another DVD such as “Unlocking the Mystery of Life,” along with a tract. He asked me to send him materials specifically for Catholics, Muslims and children, so I am shipping out these materials shown below for this new Lighting the Way outreach that keeps growing!
God bless Mike, as he leads this new door-to-door outreach, having intelligent conversations with people about who God is and what it means to know Him personally. He is gifted with a very high IQ and works in the tech industry and has made a graph of all of the homes in the neighborhoods, along with a note about which people have expressed interest in knowing more about Jesus for follow-up. He also has notes about each house and whether or not the people were atheists, etc., so he can be praying for them and know which homes are which. This is now an ongoing Lighting the Way outreach of evangelism based on apologetics to people in Los Alamitos, CA.
(Photos are of us all working together in our ongoing outreach to Seal Beach, CA, too).
SPEAKING AND SINGING AT THE FLORIDA WOMEN’S PRISON
February 23, 2025
I had a lot of fun in prison!
It was a two hour chapel service, and I led the whole thing, so we ended up singing and singing at the end. It was so special! I shared my testimony for the first hour that went by fast, and they asked questions…and we ended with music, and lots of it.
We all had a wonderful time, singing everything from “The Old Rugged Cross” to “Victory in Jesus” to “This Little Light of Mine” and “I’ll Fly Away.” I sang songs I had written, too, like “Honest Life” and “I’m the Girl I Used to Know Again.”
I donated one hundred of my books for the women, ‘Happiness No Man Required–50 Tips for Single Women to be Happy With or Without a Man’ who came to the chapel service tonight. I would say seventy women were there, so they will be the first ones to get the books. They plan to invite more women when I return.
They were all very engaged, from asking questions about my testimony to dancing around singing with me.
It is always inspirational seeing people in prison filled with joy, thanks to Jesus being with them there.
We all hugged and said we loved each other and look forward to whenever I can come back.
They have 1300 women at the Florida Women’s Reception Center, the FL Women’s Prison in Ocala, FL. No cell phones were allowed in, so I took this from my car around 5:30 before the chapel service began at 6:00.
This will be an ongoing outreach of Lighting the Way. The women are bringing their books back for me to sign next time. They even opened up and shared their testimonies with me. I look forward to being back, as my schedule allows, aiming for every six months.
Dwayna
We had our first September 11th outreach in 2024 in Washington, D.C. and hope to do it again each year. We have had witnessing cards made, specifically for this outreach location. The cards look like a postcard on the front, but the back has the Gospel.
Everyone was open on September 11th, and it was not hard giving out all of the tracts about Jesus. We just say ,”This is for more peace and love in America on Sept. 11th,” and everyone wants one! 100 cards were distributed, and it was not even hard, so we hope to make this an annual outreach. Also, it began conversations with people to talk to them about Jesus more in-depth, especially with the vendors on Constitution Avenue.
I was walking along Pennsylvania Avenue, not far from the White House, when I heard “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” being sung in another language. I headed in the direction of the music, and there stood a man with his Bible, looking up to heaven singing. I could tell he was humble and sincere. I smiled and waited for him to finish. I asked, “Would you like to hear it in English?” I began singing for just him to hear, and he looked up to the sky and began crying. I then asked, “How about this one?” I began singing “My Jesus I Love Thee,” and he knew it, too, and we both sang it together, as he belted it out.
We had the most wonderful talk, as he explained that he comes there once a week to sing, with only his Bible, and told stories of how God brings people over, and he gets to tell them about Jesus and how to be saved.
I asked, “Where are you from?” He answered, “I am from Korea. I live in Virginia now, and I am on my way to Heaven.” I smiled and said, “Well, I am from Tennessee, and I live in Sarasota, FL, now, and I am on my way to Heaven, too!”
We plan to be in Washington, D.C. each year now in this outreach going forward. If I see my friend who sings again next year, this ministry may partner with him by sending him tracts and more supplies for his weekly outreach. It was really special telling people about Jesus in the capital city of America, knowing Jesus is higher than all powers and dominions, all thrones and positions.
