ABOUT BILL
Bill's Kingdom Journey
The Gospel is the Power of God unto Salvation.
Pursued
Bill began drinking alcohol at the age of 12 and started shoplifting and vandalizing for attention from friends and family. It was only his love of sports, especially surfing, that kept him from taking drugs, though most weekends he was more than intoxicated. As he says, it was to drown out the loneliness and hopelessness.
During Bill's senior year in high school in 1971 he had over 40 people share the gospel of Christ with him and he rejected every one. That same year he had a near death experience while surfing, but was saved by a Divinely given dream that very morning that showed him how to survive the event. He was also in 3 car accidents that summer, going head first through 2 windshields but without a scratch or injury.
That fall he went to Florida State University and everything began to change. He met some Christian students who were truly happy without drugs or alcohol and it intrigued him. Three weeks later he gave his heart to Christ at one of their Bible study meetings and has never looked back.
FSU Flying High Circus
Bill graduated from Florida State University with a degree in speech communications in 1976. Three of his university years included performing as a member of FSU's famous Flying High Circus. After graduation Bill immediately entered into the professional circus world with his wife Meg as trapeze artists and acrobats. But after a disappointing initial season of performing and a disastrous auto accident, the Greenmans ended their short professional circus careers to seek the Lord’s will for their lives.
Circus Alleluia
One year after ending their professional career they combined their circus skills with an all-consuming desire to share the good news of Jesus Christ and began Circus Alleluia Ministries (CAM).
Over the ensuing 11 years Bill directed CAM’s many outreaches, training over 60 volunteers in circus and ministry. This included taking the circus into prisons, juvenile detention centers, public and private schools, college and university campuses, civic auditoriums, and Christian festivals across the eastern half of the US and Canada. Circus Alleluia was also featured on the CBN 700 Club, along with a multitude of local and regional interviews on TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines.
That decade of ministry saw tens of thousands of people won to Christ and was a catalyst for the work of many other ministries inspired by CAM's unique approach to evangelism.
Teaching Purpose
In the early years of Circus Alleluia hundreds of Christians would come to Bill after performances asking the same question: "How did you know this is what you were supposed to do for the Lord?" They wanted to know so they could follow the same path to their own purpose and destiny. In answer to those heartfelt questions Bill wrote his first book in 1986, How To Find Your Purpose In Life, which outlined the very principles and techniques he used to find and begin to live his own Kingdom purpose, beginning with Circus Alleluia. Bill's publisher release the book globally and soon testimonies poured in from around the world from the who had read his book. Believers were telling how their lives had been radically changed by Bill's practical yet simple Kingdom principles that led them to their own Divine Destinies.
The Vision of Purpose International
The Mandate
In 1996 during prayer the Lord asked bill, "If i asked you to change the expression of Christianity in the earth in a single generation, how would you do it?" Bill's answer, "Simple, I'd get every follower of Jesus to find and fulfill the purpose you created them for." God replied, "Great! Go do that." That launched Purpose International and the mandate of taking the Kingdom Purpose message to All ages, using All Media, on All Continents.
Purpose International Ministries was born in 1999 shortly after Bill's second book, Purpose Destiny Achievement, came out. From there, new seminars were birthed, courses created.
In 2007 Bill travelled to Kenya Africa to help establish a teaching and youth training base where Purpose International Kenya was born. Today well over one million students in high schools and universities across Kenya and other African nations have heard the Kingdom message of Personal Purpose and Divine Destiny live in classrooms, churches, and large conferences, as well as on radio, TV, and social media with enduring results.
Life Christian University
After receiving his doctorate from Life Christian University in 2000 Bill was asked to create a university level Kingdom Purpose course so it could be made available to LCU's many thousands of students on its 100+ campuses around the world. That course was voted the favorite class for over 20 years by those who took it and was instrumental in launching ministries and ministers in several nations.
Tools For Collaboration
The focus of Purpose International is to create the tools to teach followers of Jesus Christ how to find and fulfill the specific purpose for which God created them. The plan is to continue to team up with other established ministries around the world as was done with Life Christian University.
That message of Kingdom purpose is being released through the collaboration of other ministries, using every possible media for Bible Schools, High Schools, youth, adults, children, and even entire families.
Your Unique Purpose
Video Course
Included in the array of teaching tools is Your Unique Purpose Video Course - a 21 lesson course based on Bill's third book on the subject. In this course he takes his students step-by-step through the 80 page course workbook. When finished, each student will have a written plan about who they are, what they're Kingdom purpose is, and how they’re going to live out the destiny their purpose creates!
While anyone can purchase and go through the course online, it was created primarily for Christian High School and Bible School students.
Secular Students
When Bill began Purpose International in 1999 the Lord clearly told him that he must create a parallel version of his teachings for non followers of Christ, because many would find Christ once they staredt the journey of finding their purpose. Master Keys is the first of Bill's upcoming non-faith-based courses and teaches the same principles found in the Your Unique Purpose course, but without the Bible references and Kingdom doctrines. It presently is just the text book and workbook, but will slated to become a video series as well, which can then be presented to secular high schools and youth organizations. Bill taught this course in a municipal high school in Idaho in 2019 with great success.
Master Mind Mentoring
Bill has a love of helping people become the most productive and blessed possible in God's Kingdom, no matter what their calling might be. To that end he launched what he calls, Master Mind Mentoring sessions where members can spark each others callings into a higher gear while Bill facilitates and speaks directly into each members' life. Having been mentored himself by several coaches and ministers in his lifetime, Bill knows the value of such regular and consistent times of sowing into the lives of others.
For information on Bill's Master Mind Mentoring please email us: [email protected]
Personal Mentoring
In addition to the group Master Mind Mentoring sessions Bill has seen the need for dedicated believers to have a personal mentor working with them to flesh out and begin to live out their Kingdom purpose. Because he had no mentors along this line until meeting Pastor Dale Brooks, he learned quickly that one-on-one mentoring is the most valuable of all because you can concentrate completely on that one person and hear from the Holy Spirit for them without any distractions.
For information on Bill's Personal Mentoring availability please email us: [email protected]