𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙐𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙎𝙏𝙍
Strong Tower Radio (STR) testimony articles usually feature how a listener discovers STR, begins listening and learning, begins or deepens a walk with Jesus, and joins His end-time movement. The following shares how God brought my wife Jodi and me to become part of STR.

In 2013, God very distinctly directed us to buy a 16-acre property 30 miles NW of Cadillac that had a small home and garage. The house needed gutting and rebuilding, which we did during the next 6 years with the help of several local friends. Through 2018 and 2019, the Holy Spirit kept impressing me to press forward more quickly. I made more trips from Tennessee, where we’d lived since 1991, and the renovation neared completion. I didn’t want to occupy the home until it was finished, yet the Spirit pressed me more, and in June 2019, I moved Jodi up to this Michigan property with the plan to return in several weeks in a moving truck with our remaining household goods.

Prior to STR, I worked in corporate accounting management and worked from a home office for the past decade. I expected to bring my work to Michigan, but the parent corporation’s CFO nixed that plan. He directed instead that I train one of the corporations accountants who had just lost 80% of her job when the corporation sold its Canadian company holdings.

During the next 5 months, I trained that person and went through yearend audits with them. I also made several trips to Michigan to visit Jodi and install various essentials. In August, it was a gas stove/oven and tank-less water heater; in October, it was new ductwork and restoring central heating and air. It was enough for the moment; the essentials were in place.

During this time, Jodi met STR employee Joy Corliss and full-time volunteer Sandy Cole, and they invited her to volunteer at STR. They soon learned of my job situation, and the STR prayer team began praying for us. Strong Tower Radio had been seeking a development director for much of 2019 to succeed the legendary
George Corliss, who had spearheaded STR development for nearly all of STR’s first decade. They offered the position to someone who actively worked in another ministry, and from June – October 2019, they awaited an answer. In late October, this person was impressed to remain in their current ministry, and STR continued searching.

The STR hiring committee were soon impressed to explore who this Kam Ferguson guy actually is. Could he be the one God is bringing to become Development Director?

I was scheduled to travel to Michigan again in mid-November, and STR President David Bolduc asked Jodi to have me come to STR and fill out an application for the position. I had no intention to work for a ministry and was not inclined to accept David’s invitation, yet I also recognized that this might be God’s hand directing. After all, the last two job offers I’d received were unsolicited. The first, God directed me away from; the second, He directed me to accept.

I filled out the application, provided my resume, and prayed for several specific indicators that would clearly indicate God’s will regarding my working for STR. I didn’t want it to be my will or the will of mankind; I wanted God’s will. He provided all that I requested, plus a bonus indicator, and I accepted STR’s employment offer.

Jodi and I have experienced so many blessings and God’s provisions in many ways, and we praise God for His continued leading. When tempted to doubt God’s plan for being part of STR, I simply look back to how He has led thus far and His promise to sustain those who follow him.

A note looking back on exiting my former job unexpectedly: Nearly two years after I was terminated from the company with 12 weeks’ severance, the parent corporation sold that company to its main competitor for a significant gain. Had I still been employed there, I would have been released immediately without severance. I also would have missed the STR growth of the past 5 years as God would have filled that need with someone else.

Instead, God directed us to purchase a country home in NW Michigan without explaining why, guided our home renovation over 6 years, pressed me to move from TN before I wanted (avoiding relocation during COVID-19), pulled me out of the corporate world, and directed me to work with STR.

God continues to develop our faith in His guidance and provision, and our testimony grows daily. If faithful to the end, we will only have our Heavenly Father to thank & praise, for He directed our way. Thank you for the opportunity to work with you to reach souls with the everlasting gospel. Many lives, including ours, are being changed!

– Kam Ferguson