Germany Team Newsletter #34
7/12/07
Jennifer Henson


Hallo Family and Friends,
We are all packing and preparing to say are final good-byes. This morning we thoroughly cleaned the house and did laundry. Now all of us are trying to fit everything in our suitcases.
Latter this evening we will go to Darrel and Miriam's for supper one last time. They have been great outreach coordinators and close friends. It will be hard to say good bye to them. It has been hard to say goodbye to all our friends here.
Tomorrow morning we will leave are apartment at 7 and be driven to the Halle Leipzig Airport. We should board are plain at 9:45. We have a switch in Frankfurt and board the second plain at 1:20. I believe we will arrive in Philadelphia around 4pm.
Now that business is out of the way, I would like to take time to share a God thing that has happened in my life.
Four the past three or so months I have been meeting with the Pastor's wife and working through past pains and dealing with lies I have received as truth. The Lord has really shown me allot about myself that is good and beautiful. Yet because of these lies I believed I could not except my self as anything but a failure and problem.
Through several counseling meetings with Sharon I have been able to see my self more the way God designed me to be. But something still kept me from really embracing the truths of scripture and the free gifts God offers me. One thing held me back from taking to heart all the head knowledge.
Last Tuesday we discovered the root. I felt unlovable. I felt like I was not important. Something inside of me could not except that nothing was not my fault. The lie that when something happened some how I was do blame had dug it's ugly claws in my heart.
Having discovered the root of things I took action. I went to the cross and simply asked for a miracle. I asked for God to fight for me and rescue me from believing these lies any further.
I was laying face down on the floor just waiting for something, not knowing what it would be. Several minutes went bye and I was enjoying the Lord's presence. Then I clearly heard a voice saying, " You are IMPORTANT!! BELIEVE IT!!!" Over and over I heard this statement and it got firmer and firmer. I felt my self tense and my insides tremble.
So I stood up and outwardly declared I am important! The inner confidence and strong conviction I felt was not of my own doing. Truly I have never felt so confident or such a strong conviction in any thing before.
I have always heard that God is good, but now I FEEL and SEE and KNOW that He is!
May God Bless You All, Jennifer Henson


Prayer Requests:
Safety in traveling
Fitting everything in to suitcases
Smooth traveling ( no problems with wait, security, or planes)
Strength to say good byes
Strength to adjust to U.S.


Praises:
We have finished are time out strong
We have impacted and encouraged people here
We all have some idea of what the next step will be
We have all been changed and seen the Lord at work in and through us.