Phillip & Amy Ward

Forward Mission

About the Wards

Phillip and Amy Ward are both missionaries. Amy is on the global leadership team of Fire & Fragrance.. They lead Tekton Discipleship a construction trade school in Columbia, TN. They together have a powerful ministry and are best known for their Father and Mother hearts. They minister all over the world preaching, teaching, pastoring and discipling. They have 3 adult children and two granddaughters.

Amy served in YWAM for 17 years and Phillip joined her when they were married in 2014, and they transition out of YWAM in 2026 . Amy is the co-founder of and a leader in the global missions movement Fire & Fragrance and is a part of the leadership and pioneering of a new Fire & Fragrance base in Nashville, TN. She will be continuing to travel and minister all over the world. Phillip is running and developing the construction trade school Tekton Discipleship as well as a General Contractor and owner of Tekton Trades which runs along side of he school.

Forward Mission is their personal non-profit ministry.

Amy Ward

Amy Ward is a lover of Jesus that has given her life to see the kingdom of heaven released on the earth.  She carries a prophetic anointing and releases the heart of Father over people and places.  She has a desire to see people have a radical intimate relationship with Jesus.  Most of all she longs to be the friend of God and for everyone to know Him as friend. She is most known for teachings on the Holy Spirit, Friendship with God, the Fear of the Lord and the Prophetic. She has a real authority on her life to bring alignment both personally and corporately . She has a passion for hospitality and cooking and loves the practical part of ministering to people this way. Amy carries the heart of a mother in comes through everything that she does.

Born into the fifth generation of Alaskan fisherman she grew up in remote parts of  Southeast, Alaska spending many summers on the fishing boat. At a young age in the Alaskan wilderness she learned to hear the voice of the Lord. Throughout her young life she encountered the Lord and has an amazing testimony of the delivering power of Jesus Christ that set her free and into the destiny of the Lord. Her story and life is one of overcoming and learning to love.

Amy started ministry at the age of 16 and has been apart of pioneering and leading serval ministries and movements in Alaska and then joined YWAM in 2008. She has served in leadership roles with YWAM for many years and transitioned out in 2026. She is one of the leaders and founders of Fire & Fragrance and Circuit Riders, and on the leadership team of a Fire & Fragrance base in Nashville, Tennessee. She helps her husband Phillip run Tekton Discipleship and Trades a construction trade school.

Amy travels and ministers all over the world.

Amy married Phillip Ward in 2014 and become a step-mom to his three children Mekennah, Elijah and Bob and now has two granddaughters..

Amy also has a personal website with some of her teaching notes and more about her ministry.

Phillip Ward

Phillip Ward is a man who carries the father’s heart in everything he does. He has a passion to see a generation come into their true identity as sons and daughters of a good and loving God. Since a very young age he had developed practical skills and talents in the construction trades and business that he now uses to disciple young people to become men and women of God with viable skills. Phillip is developing ad running a Missional Construction Trade School Tekton Discipleship and Trades in Columbia, TN. He has a dream to see a wave of skilled missionaries sent nto the inner cities and developing nations. He also is apart of planting trade schools in other nation's and has one in Nigeria. Phillip also loves to preach and teach and is getting many more opportunities to do that all over the world.

Phillip was born and raised Texarkana, Arkansas until he was 18. His parents started a inner city ministry with a focus on young people. His dad started a baseball team for inner city youth which led to their family adopting 3 teenage boys. Living a very missional life in the inner city with very little financial support they would see the miraculous power of God show up in amazing ways with provision.  On several occasions seeing God multiply food to feed their family and the children around them for several days. Doing ministry from a very young age along side his dad, Phillip had numerous supernatural encounters with the Holy Spirit that would mark is life forever.

In those day’s doing the kind of ministry his family did was not widely accepted or supported by the church, which brought hurt and pain to his family and eventually led to Phillip walking away from the Lord for a season in his late teens. In that time he became a father to a beautiful picture of grace, his daughter Mekennah. He was married at 17 and by the time he was 21 he had two more children, both sons, Elijah and Bob. Having a family so young forced him to grow up fast and provide through hard work. 

At 18 years old he moved to Alaska to be a big game hunting guide in the Chugiak Mountain Rage. Phillip moved his young family out to a remote hunting lodge where they were caretakers for that first winter. From there they moved to Wasilla, Alaska where Phillip would work construction in the hunting off season. The owner of that Construction business was a great Christian man who became a great mentor and spiritual father in his life. Phillip’s own father and this man, are two of the main reasons Phillip is walking in the gifts and calling of God on his life today. 

Over the year’s Phillip learned many types of trade skills such as Carpentry, Masonry, Welding, Pipe Fitting and Iron Work. He is also a very skilled artist and his work reflects it. For a season he ended up working on the North Slope of Alaska in the oil fields, working his way up to a Mechanical Superintended, leading over 90 employees and handling large contracts. 

The hardest seasons of Philip’s life came when his marriage ended despite his best efforts to restore it. In his own failures and brokenness the Lord continued to show Himself faithful and good. 

In 2014 he married Amy Sollars, a long time friend of his family. Amy had joined YWAM Kona in 2008 and was apart of pioneering the Fire & Fragrance school, and and was one of the founders of the movement Circuit Riders. For the first couple of years of their marriage they lived in Southern California where Phillip tried to get his custom furniture business off the ground, while Amy still traveled and ministered. God had different plans and called them to Kona, Hawaii to the largest missions bases in the world and where Amy lived for 5 years from 2008-2013. The invitation to Kona came from the founder’s of  YWAM Loren and Darlene Cunningham, and the request was for Phillip to use the skills sets and passionate heart to pioneer a trade school within the mission to train and disciple young people going into short and long term missions. Phillip and Amy lived and served in Kona from 2017-2023.

At the end of the day Phillips just longs to show Jesus to the world through the Fathers heart, be a good father to his own children, and loving husband to wife. He now is a grandfather to two beautiful granddaughters.