About Us
Wendy Gade has been studying and writing about the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 and it's likelihood of becoming a pandemic since 2005. While studying to become a paramedic, she earned several academic awards including one from USA Today for the technical paper, “The Avian Flu and the Pre-hospital Healthcare Provider.”
For several years she represented the faith based community while serving on a committee, "Vulnerable Populations Initiative" with her local health department. Their goal was to be the first county in the country to have plan in place to ensure vulnerable people would be reached during a biological event. It was during this time that the H1N1 Swine Flu became a pandemic. Wendy's work on this committee led to her writing the book “Pandemic Flu Plan for the Church, Ministering to the Community in a Time of Crisis.” published in August 2016. It is a comprehensive plan to prepare the Body of Christ for a pandemic thus enabling the Church to safely care for the community and bring the gospel into the event.
While working in the healthcare field, Wendy went on several medical mission trips including twice to Haiti in response to the 2010 earthquake; Tacloban, Philippines after the typhoon in 2014; and in February 2018 to Bundibugyo, Uganda. The Lord spoke to her profoundly while she was ministering to His people who were suffering from the effects of disasters and poverty. In her words, “I thought it was my skills as a paramedic that was going to make a difference. Although my skills qualified me to join these medical teams, I learned it is the compassion and mercy shown to others by means of these skills that allows God to flow through me in a wondrous way. He has shown me that the true way to overcome in disasters was not just to prepare physically, but to love our neighbors in the midst of the disaster.”
During her career as a paramedic, she also worked as an EMS Instructor and Continuing Education Coordinator. This gave her many opportunities to write the curriculum and teach pandemic preparedness on a college level.
Outrunning the Horses
In March 1998, while studying her Bible, Wendy came across the verse "Then the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel." 1Kings 18:46. She was struck with the fact that Elijah outran a horse. She prayed asking God for its significance. Not long after she read Jeremiah 12:5: “If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?” When reading this she knew she and her husband Marcus were to learn to outrun “horses.” But to what horses was He referring? She continued to pray and seek God for the answer.
Soon after the Lord led Wendy to do a verse by verse study of the book of Isaiah. Three and half years later, she had a new understanding of God’s coming judgment, the role of the Church, and the last days before Jesus’ return.
As part of this study she came upon the four horses in Revelation 6. It became clear that these were the horses the Lord wanted them to outrun. These horses represent sword, famine, and pestilence. Through continued prayer and study, the Lord impressed on both she and her husband, Marcus, ways to prepare for these coming events. It is their hearts desire to help prepare and equip the Body of Christ to minister during these times.