There’s something powerful about women who build, lead, nurture and create, all while keeping Christ at the centre.
In this edition of Stay Lit Spotlight, we’re honoured to introduce you to a woman of bold faith and creative fire.
From ministry leadership to theatre production, from motherhood to authorship, Danielle is living proof that God can call you in various ways.
Let’s get to know her.
Meet Danielle
My name is Danielle Wong. I’m a wife, a mother of five, and I have two cats — one black and one white — which perfectly matches the monochrome branding for my Woman of Faith ministry!
I’m a ministry leader, content creator, theatre producer, and operations lead at Final Call Productions, where we share the Gospel through theatre, film, and spoken word poetry. I’m also an inspirational speaker and soon-to-be author as I’m currently writing my first book.
Steps to Christ
Every believer has a moment where faith becomes personal. What did that moment look like for you?
I found Jesus in my early twenties — or should I say, He found me.
I wasn’t raised Christian and knew very little about Jesus. A friend invited me to a baby dedication, and that day the Holy Spirit spoke to me through the preacher. When the altar call was made, I responded and dedicated my life to Jesus.
It has been a journey.
I often liken it to a walk. I started walking with Jesus that day, and when I look back at the walk we've been on together — especially at the very difficult times of my life — I can see that, just like the Footprints poem, Christ carried me through.
But He didn’t just get me through the hard times. After each difficult trial, my faith increased.
When we pray and ask God to increase our faith, we’re not asking for hard trials — but it seems as though God’s ways, allowing us to face the storms, actually work. We’re tested in the fire, but we come out as pure gold.
In what ways has walking with Christ transformed you, and how does that show up in your daily life?
Journeying with Christ has made me who I am today. I can really say I am changed — I’m a new creation.
I’m coming from someone who used to go raving twice a week, drinking, hooking up with guys. I was very lost. I was always seeking love and never finding it.
On this journey, I have understood what real love actually is.
It feels like each day I’m learning more and more about God’s grace, His mercy towards us, His long-suffering patience, the way He works, the way He protects, the way He guides.
It’s taken this journey to get here — to get to this place where the words that I’m speaking are not just words that we should say, but words that I can testify come from experience, come from walking with Him.
I can truly say God is good all the time.
Beauty from Ashes
Was there a specific moment or experience that prompted you to begin writing and sharing online?
I started creating after going through one of the hardest times of my family's life. Our eldest son, Keelen Wong, was murdered in 2023 to knife crime. Only a few months later, God encouraged me to start writing a book and begin a YouTube channel.
I honestly did not feel like it was a good time. We were grieving, struggling, it felt too soon. But God knows.
My videos were aimed at women who are new to the faith, wanting to deepen their faith, or going through difficult times. When I look back at the videos I first created, I see that a lot of them were actually for me, for my own benefit.
It forced me to go into my Word, as I didn’t want to be someone presenting false information. I wanted to back up my testimonies and experiences with what the Word of God says.
I wanted to encourage people to go to God in difficult times in their life and not away from Him, that you can still experience peace, joy, and of course love in those hard times. God’s love.
It took a year to reach a thousand subscribers. My channel is still small, but I’ve had positive feedback from the very people I was aiming it towards, people who say it’s helped them. So I don’t look too much at the numbers anymore.
God continually inspires me with new content, more than I can even produce and it’s helped me grow in confidence, especially as God has asked me to start speaking publicly. It has actually been good practice.
God really knows what He’s doing.
How do you protect your spiritual health while being visible online?
I see a lot of ‘fakeness’ online. Speakers and presenters look immaculately perfect. Christian content creators have thousands of followers and are popular. There’s hypocrisy, deception, lies and a lot of mask wearing.
Many big-time popular preachers are being found out for what they’re doing behind closed doors, and it’s discouraging. It’s confusing. It can make you struggle if you’re not strong in your faith. It can mislead and deceive you. You’re bombarded with other people’s opinions and can lean towards what’s popular instead of what’s true.
There is some fantastic content out there, of course. You can learn a lot and be encouraged.
But firstly, we can’t rely on what’s online to grow in faith, even if it’s really good.
Get a Bible, not even a Bible app, a real Bible! Start reading it, highlighting it, pondering on it, asking God what it means. Go to in-person Bible studies and study together.
Tools like Google and ChatGPT are useful, but the Holy Spirit does not work through these tools. You want Holy Spirit-led information, not logic based on research, science, or popular opinion.
Secondly, if you have your own page, personal, business, or ministry, be you and don’t be afraid to be you. God has had to teach me that.
My hair doesn’t always look perfect. I don’t cake myself in makeup. Sometimes I buss out into Jamaican patois — that’s where my roots are from.
People need to see realness. It’s okay to share the struggles as well as the highlights. It’s okay not to follow the crowd. You don’t need man’s approval. You don’t need their likes. And you can delete negative comments.
We have to let our light shine and ‘Stay Lit’ as your company suggests and make sure we don’t hide our gifts, talents, experiences, and uniqueness under a bushel.
Basketballers and footballers are online bigging up Christ unapologetically. We should do the same. no matter our workplace or what we’re doing at the weekend.
Let people see what a Christian lifestyle looks like.
A real one.
Choosing Vulnerability
What has God had to work through in you to help you show up confidently?
It has not been easy. It has taken a lot of coaching from God for me to be willing to be confident and be myself publicly.
We all care what people think about us. We want people to like us. We want them to say nice things. And when they don’t, it hurts. We get embarrassed. We feel ashamed. So it’s easier to hide the real us.
But it’s okay to be vulnerable. It’s okay to say,
- “I don’t know everything the Bible says,”
- “I’m not sure how to respond to your comment,”
- “This is how I do things.”
For me, I felt like a hypocrite. The enemy reminded me of my past. I felt like to be a good Christian, a real Christian, you had to be brought up a Christian.
Well, I was wilding out in my younger days. God had to step into some real mess to pull me out.
But then I remember, it’s not about me. That story alone glorifies God. That’s the testimony.
Even when I didn’t know Him, wasn’t seeking Him, didn’t care for Him or myself, He cared.
Now I walk with Him. He encourages me to be the authentic me. I have to apologise when I’m impatient or accidentally slip up and say something about someone that I shouldn’t.
I’m not perfect but I walk with One who is.
I’m constantly reminded not to care what they think. Who cares if they don’t like you? Jesus likes you. He loves you. He knows the worst about you.
So if I’m going to post, share, be honest, be vulnerable, I’ll do that for Him.
If people want to cuss me, look down on me, gossip about me, chat about me behind my back, I’ll just have to bear it.
Jesus had to take a lot more for me. So I should be willing to do the same for Him.
If you could leave our readers with one encouragement, what would it be?
Choose faith over fear.
Faith is not a feeling that God wanted you to experience, faith is a spirit, and His Word tells us He did not give us the spirit of fear.
So if we’re living with fear, anxiety, stress, panic attacks, worry and God didn’t give it to us, where did it come from? The devil.
Whatever your situation, we have a choice to make. Do we choose the spirit of fear, or do we choose the Spirit of God?
God gave us fight or flight so that if we face a threat, there is a response built into us but it’s not fear.
If a lion is chasing us, we flight, we run. But even then, don’t have to run away screaming, thinking the lion is going to eat you choosing fear in that moment. With God you can still run but choose to pray and run.
Pray; “Lord, shut the mouth of the lion like You did for Daniel. Make the lion stumble and trip. Supernaturally make me run faster.”
God tells us He is the God who can do impossible things.
So whatever we face, finances, health, relationships, work, we can choose to imagine the worst-case scenario or the best-case scenario. The choice is ours.
We can scream and cry, fret, get anxious, get worked up into stress. Or we can pray, hope, trust, lean on the promises of the Bible, praise God anyway, and experience peace and joy, that abundant life God promised.
It seems like a no-brainer, yet we often pick fear.
We might feel like it’s not a choice, that it jumps on us automatically. But we need to start practicing rejecting fear when it comes knocking on our door and choosing faith instead.
Choose to be a woman of faith. Or a man of faith.
Choose faith over fear.
Proverbs 3:3-8 ESV Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
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