In January 1968, Wierwille visited San Francisco to personally witness the Jesus People street ministries, such as those in Haight-Ashbury, where he himself ministered. The Way's followers grew significantly in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Moving to his family's farm in New Knoxville, Ohio, in 1959, he established the location as the headquarters for The Way's Institute for Biblical Research and Teaching, later The Way Inc. Four years later, he resigned from the Evangelical and Reformed Church pastorate to devote his time to The Way ministry. It expanded to other locations in Ohio and eventually to other states. In 1953, Wierwille started teaching the course that would later become Power for Abundant Living. Wierwille continued to broadcast his meditations over WIMA (formerly WLOK) in Lima, WONW in Defiance, and WRFD in Worthington, Ohio, until 1955. The Chimes Hour Youth Caravan continued to have radio and public performances until April 1953, at which time the Nielsen ratings showed that 70,000 homes were tuned in on Sundays, broadcasting over radio station WLW in Cincinnati. opened for business and released the first issue of The Way Magazine. Nearly ten years following the first broadcast, The Van Wert Gospel Gift Shop and Multigraph Printing and Publishing Co. Starting in 1948, Wierwille began broadcasting every morning in addition to the regular weekly program. That year, The Way: The Chimes Hour Young People's Publication began publishing writings by people associated with the radio program each month. In 1947, The Chimes Hour Youth Caravan incorporated with Wierwille as president alongside a board of directors. Wierwille published his first book, Victory Through Christ, in 1945, compiling his radio sermons. Soon afterwards, the program was renamed The Chimes Hour Youth Caravan. The program was broadcast from WLOK in Lima, Ohio, where the youth would sing and perform alongside Wierwille's sermons that included "principles for abundant life". Wierwille assembled a group of youth from local churches to help him. On October 3, 1942, Wierwille began a weekly live radio program dubbed Vesper Chimes. He later claimed God spoke to him personally, telling him He would teach him "the Word as it had not been known since the first century", so that he could pass it on to others. He maintained he had recovered the true apostolic understanding of Christianity that had been lost to the church. He was ordained as a minister in the Evangelical and Reformed Church (now part of the United Church of Christ). He later received a Master of Theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Pikes Peak Bible Seminary. He attended Mission House College and Seminary, Moody Bible Institute, and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He had a great interest in Christianity since his youth. Victor Paul Wierwille was born in his family farm's kitchen on December 31, 1916. Edwards was installed as the fifth president of The Way. In March 2017, Jean-Yves DeLisle was installed as the fourth president. Craig Martindale became the second president of The Way. TWI teaches that every follower can have an accurate understanding of God's original intent in His Word. The teaching of The Way is based on 2 Peter 1:20 that "no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation" (KJV translation) and they believe the Bible interprets itself in a variety of ways, which is taught in its studies, classes, and publications. It has been described as combining biblical literalism, evangelicalism, Calvinism, ultradispensationalism, and Pentecostalism.
The Way International has given focused attention on first-century Christianity and extensive research into the Church Epistles. The Way offers classes in biblical studies to its followers, prominently the Power for Abundant Living Today (also referred to as PFAL Today ) class series, considered to be the modern-day successor to its original class series, Power for Abundant Living (also referred to as PFAL). It formed The Way Corps, a leadership training program, in 1970. The ministry distributes publications such as The Way Magazine through its company, American Christian Press, and has developed and promotes classes and other programs, some of which are in several languages. It was founded by Victor Paul Wierwille in 1942 as a radio program, subsequently becoming The Chimes Hour Youth Caravan in 1947, and The Way, Inc., in 1955. The followers congregate primarily in home fellowships located throughout the United States, two US territories, and in over 30 countries. The Way International is a nondenominational Christian ministry based in New Knoxville, Ohio.
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