Grace

Shalom, Hola, Hello!!  (Don't forget to check out the words in fushia below)

   Well I have been back in the USA for almost a month.  And it has been a whirlwind of excitement. 

 First of all thank you so much for all of your prayers as I left Peru.  It was very difficult to leave all of the absolutely amazing brothers and sisters that I made there.  The work is continuing strong and I know that the Lord had me there to start the work that He wanted and now He is working through other leaders there. 

  So great to remember that all along it is God's work and only He receives all of the glory for the success!  Praise God!

  Coming back to the dry, hot desert was also shocking as in Lima it is extremely humid.  So for about three days it was very difficult to breath.  Not having driven for over a year it was nice to get behind the wheel although with gas being so high i try not to stay there to long *smiles*

  A great blessing my dear friend Kate whom I met while I was in Peru came here to Arizona for a week and we were able to go to Phoenix and meet with and encourage some other people that had been previous students in Peru as well.  It was lovely to see them and be encouraged by what the Lord's doing in their lives. 

  Also the day that Kate left my best friend of 24 years, Kathryn flew in from Oklahoma with her 2 year old and 11 month old.  It was so refreshing to see her and her beautiful children.  We went to California to see her in-laws and also to Oceanside where we have other friends that have been praying and supporting me.  It was just an incredible time to come back and be able to touch base with so many of the people that are so important in my life. 

  I will be sharing all about this past year and what God has done on

Thursday,

June 5th 

6:00-8:30

at Calvary Chapel Bullhead City.  (1690 Newberry Dr.) 

  Please come I would so love to meet you and talk with you. 

There will be food and drinks provided also I will be showing a video that I made so you can actually SEE how it was!

If you have any questions please contact me at gracehensley@hotmail.com

If you are interested in continuing to support me as I am a missionary here in the USA.   I will be starting a Christian ESL school here in Bullhead City,AZ and reaching out to the Latino population.  You can donate online through... http://www.sgwm.com/missionaries.php?id=143  There will be a little button on the right hand side that says "donate to Grace Hensley"

Thank you so much for all of your prayers!

See you on Thursday!

In Jesus, Grace

Praise Reports

1. That I have had a safe traveling experiannce so far.

2.  That the Lord sent Jose to help me get through everything here at the airport

3.  That British Airways didn't charge me for my luggage.

4.  That i was able to spend some time with my sister and neice.

5.  That my Mom is safe and having a good time traveling

6.  That i have friends and family that love me.

Prayer Requests

1.  That the Lord will be with my sister Terri who is in the hospital right now because of heart pain

2.  That it would be a safe flight to London and Tel Aviv

3.  That the Lord would allow me to meet more people and shar the Love of Jesus with them

4. That he would guide me on the path of righteousness.

5.  That I would fall more in love with him each day!

Whose little feet are these??  They belong to a little bedouin girl that I met today, while visiting her village between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea.  They are only one pair of many small bruised and dirty feet. 

   I also met a young woman only one year older than me she has four children and another on the way...they have no homes, no electricity, no refrigeration ...they live on goat's milk, water, and vegtables.  And guess what?  They are content even happy to be living this way. 

  A part of me desires so much to have that kind of freedom, to not be bound to all the "things"  in this world that I think that I "need".  When in reality I don't need much.   Jesus lived this way, so did David and Moses, and countless other men and women of God. 

  Jesus said..."Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where theives do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."   Matthew 6:19-21

   I stood there with my mouth agape as I watched dozens of little children swarming and grabbing just to get a shirt, or a pair of gloves, a blanket.  Things that I have had all my life and never thought twice about.   

 Countless Christian tour busses pass this village several times a day heading towards the dead sea, to soak up the deliciousness of being in this Holy place, and walking where Jesus walked.  But I wonder would Jesus if he were on that tour lather up in sun tan lotion and float in the dead sea, or would he upon seeing this village out the window, say "STOP".  Let's get out and minister to these people that I am dying to love. 

    Everywhere we go there are people that are less fortunate that we are, and we can be the hands and feet of Jesus just by loving them.  If you have something that someone needs, just give it to them God will bless you back!  I have learned that whatever God gives me I need to hold with open hands, the moment that I close my hands around that "thing"  I start to trust in "it" more than in the One that gave it to me. 

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Therefore don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about it's own things.  Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."  Matthew 6:13-14

God bless you my dear friends, we are all learning these lessons together...i love you!

Serving Yeshua, Grace

Dear Friends and Family,

  "When Jesus had made an end of commanding His disciples He departed 

thence to teach and to preach in their cities."  Matthew 11:1

"He comes where He commands us to leave.  If when God said "Go," you stayed because you were so concerned about yout people at him, you robbed them of the theaching and preaching of Jesus Christ Himself.  WHen you obeyed and left all consequences to God, the Lord went into your city to teach; as long as you would not obey, you were i the way.  Watch where you befin to debate and to put what you call duty in competition iwth yout Lord's comands.  "I know He told me to go, but then my duty was here" that meand you do not believe that Jesus means what He says. He teaches where He instructs us not to. 

                                                                                   Taken from:  My Utmost For His Highest by Matthew Henry

This is today's reading for August 1st and as I was sitting there reading it I knew that it was straight from the Lord.  As all, or most of you know it is my hearts desire to be a missionary.  Many people that I have talked to over the last month have asked why it is that I would like to leave America to go and be a missonary in a different country when there are a lot of people here in the USA that don't know the Lord?  This is a very good question, and my anwser to this is that here in America there is an abundance of churches, and professing born-again Christians, not to mention an overwhelming amount of solid Christian literature.  While the Lord has me here in America I will be going out and sharing the gospel as much as possible with the lost.  However the Lord has given me the desire, heart and ability to go to nations of the world where they perhaps haven't heard of the bible, or Jesus, or even Christians.  I believe that if the churches in our communities would step up to the plate, and step out of their comfort zones and share the gospel with the people that they are around all the time, a huge revival would sweep across this land.

So in saying all of that, I plan on leaving Bullhead City, Arizona in about 2 months to go back to Jerusalem Israel and help with the "For Zion Sake"  Ministry.  Please pray that the Lord would give the final confirmation this week so that I will be able to purchase the plane ticket. 

In my previous post I asked the Lord in my prayer point for a job, and praise the Lord for the last 3 1/2 weeks I have had the great privilage of helping a family in our church move, it has been just a wonderful time of fellowship.  So the Lord has been providing through this avenue and I praise Him for that. 

Also I mentioned wanting to buy a car, well after a lot of thought and prayer it was decided not to buy a car, but to just save that money, and my mom has been graciously allowing me to use her car during the times when she is at work. 

So praise the Lord for these anwsered prayers!!

Prayer points

*  Pray that the Lord would send the final confirmation concerning Israel.

* Pray for a great Harvest for the Living Water Ministry

*Pray for the Mission trip to Mexico at the end of Septemeber

Thank you all for you prayers and support, if you have any questions, or you would just like to talk please send me an e-mail at christiang_@excite.com  I love hearing from you!!

Loving Jesus,

Grace

In order to be happy in life ("free") be a genuine optimist. This includes my attending "real" college, which my mom herself never did, where I can listen to self-rightous professors drone on in the pervaiding anti-God theories of the moment, which they readily embrace, out of their own personal denial. So then I can graduate probably by this time with an STD (I was encouraged to test the water out first) and slave for a lifetime to pay off my pesky student loans as I attempt to discover value in the shallowness of my next-to-useless degree, which if I'm lucky, I can use to move nowhere and change nothing, more help furthur perpetuate the vicious cycle of money, greed, fashism, and triviality, not to forget sprinkled with a smidge of completely overwhelming godless materialism.
Then as I get my boring and useless job, so I can join the rat race, I will live in an empty world of constant perpetual anxiety, working for an untidy group of little fashists. As I endeavor to find contentment in my possessions I am violently thrown into a deep pit of credit card debt, but mainly due in part to my ongoing plastic surgery, but I of course need and deserve it, so my Cosmo says.
Eventually I will die due to my over emphasis of the Atkins diet, recommended and highly hinted at by my unloving husband, however this caused my eventual heart failure, but in my death I will escape the unhappy marriage I once entered thinking I could flee from some of the unmerciful pressures of my self-centered life, ...and as I'm on my way strait to hell, well at least I can remember that I never once had to look into the face of poverty, I merely took a constant gaze into the empty mirror which was my life and hid behind some lostsense of drugs, alcohol, and my semi-fancy suburb life.
And this was me, the future of America, and in this "great" nation it is almost best fitting as a college student before I begin this crazy trip called life, that I drop acid as to furthur ignore the truth, why not? is it not fashionable?) -simply put, hehe. Certainly this life as a result of taking my mothers advice is one filled with the love and freedom. How can it not be, after her extensive study and embrace of eastern religion -China is loving and free right?

Written by my good friend Minnette Bunnell (used with her permission)