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Mike Dana Christians Working Together Trading
Mike & Janis Dana Personal
Mike's Background: Mike was raised in the Detroit, Michigan area, in a Catholic home. His father was a paint contractor. Mike had a supernatural experience during a vigil as an altar boy at the age of 10, which was his first real experience with a living God. At 19, he was drafted for the Vietnam War, and he and Jan were married while on a leave in 1970. Mike finished college after his military service, with a BBA in Business and Finance. Jan graduated with a BA in English and Education and a MA in Guidance and Counseling. She has taught school most of her career, including homeschooling their four children when they were young.
Mike has a broad business background, including working for a CPA firm; working in management as a foreman at a steel company, and for Ford Motor Company; and starting, or being named as a corporate executive of, five additional companies, including an advertising and marketing company, an attorney/financial services company, a telecommunications company, a company called Environmental Potentials, and one called Son Bright. In the last four years, he has also learned how to trade stocks. In 1976, Mike’s brother invited Mike and Jan to a charismatic renewal service in a Catholic church. They were initially unsure about speaking in tongues, prayer for the sick, and hands raised in worship. However, during that move of God, about 30 people were being saved at the church every week, and it wasn’t long before both Jan and Mike came to the Lord, also. Mike was quickly given elder-like responsibilities in the church and hunger for God’s word grew quickly in both he and his wife. They left the Catholic Church and eventually started a church in their home that grew to 100 people, which forced them to get a building. Mike was the senior pastor of Joy Christian Fellowship for 18 years. He often organized city-wide events out of a strong administrative gifting and a heart for evangelism. He was given prophetic words from a series of others pointing to a call to accumulate great wealth. In 1996, he turned over his church to an associate and began to seek this “Kingly” calling. Personal Passion: Mike’s passion is people. His motivation is evangelistic and both he and Jan have a strong gift of giving with a hunger to fully supply the need of the saints and all. He once gave away their house, and Jan gave their wedding rings to a missionary in need. They love to minister to the lost and supply their need for salvation. Mike is very spontaneous, yet strongly administrative, and able to multi-task. They both love to spend time in prayer and intercession. Vision for the Kingdom: Near the end of 2005 Mike felt the leading of the Lord to shut down the company he was running and get before HIM. So in January of 2006, Mike and Jan asked others to pray for a release of the calling in their lives. Mike also began fasting, and the two of them prayed for God to open doors to accomplish His will for them and others. Over the next 40 days the ministry God has laid out for them would involve networking with partners who have a real heart and calling for giving. The first goal of this group is to become personally debt free, prosperous, and equipped to be generous. The second goal is to be able to meet the needs of others, on an individual, local, national, and perhaps even someday, international basis. Lastly, Mike believes God would have them “compel” people to come into the Kingdom through nationwide evangelistic outreaches that will fill stadiums throughout the US. How this will be accomplished: In recent years, the Lord has allowed Mike to develop a market place strategy which will be the avenue through which great wealth will come. Many people are frightened when they think of investing or trading in the stock market, as perhaps they should be. However, God has laid out an incredibly simple plan involving short term investing and trading which, when followed as a group (a trading community) takes the fear of failure and uncertainty away. The stock market is a great storehouse (Proverbs 13:22); the wealth of the nations is there, and the Lord knows how to multiply it for use in the Kingdom. Partners need no previous training or experience in the stock market, just a heart for giving and a measure of faith… Do you sense the Spirit of God to respond? Could this be the means to fund the God-given vision you have?
Value to Others: Mike’s ministry is on the supply side, “Freely you have received, freely give.” He operates in a very practical, results-oriented approach to helping people and he is a capable teacher; able to disciple others into the experience of his message. CWT currently has 136 partners that Mike is helping to move into the Ministry of Distributor; a term taken from Nehemiah 13:13.
Business Potential (upside): Mike’s goal is to use exponential financial growth through his partners to jointly convert hundreds of millions of dollars into ministry, supplying the needs of people locally and ultimately for local and nationwide evangelism.
Complexities, failures (downside): Mike is networking with partners that have a real heart and calling for giving. Part of the challenge is finding the right people with gifts of giving, mercy, helps, and administration that won’t be tempted by greed when moving large sums of money into the Kingdom.
Impact from Releasing Kings: Mike viewed the materials on the Releasing Kings website and saw CWT as a similar vision with remarkable synergism, putting feet to the message in the book. Kings and Distributors are largely overlapping ministries whom God is using to expand His Kingdom.
How Can Mike Help You - Mike believes that God has already prepared the hearts of those that God has called to be in the Ministry of Distributor (see Nehemiah 13:13 NIV) or Giving. They are simply waiting for the plan to be revealed, so they can be released into it (read 2 Corinthians 9:8-15). Are you one of them?
To understand the details of how millions of dollars will be raised and distributed into the Kingdom, you or one of your staff will have to fill out the “Join CWT” information to get a username and password for an additional site, www.cwttrading.org, which details the work of the ministry. There is no obligation upon joining.
PS: a personal note from John: I’m the 137th in line to subscribe to Mike’s Kingdom ministry as an active partner. More in a month.
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