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| Doris |
Just when I thought I was
ready to go back to Ghana in 2011 for full time missions, God said WAIT. He did not tell me why or give me any details
of His plan. He simply said TRUST Me
with that desire and ache in your heart for the children in Ghana and
wait. After all, He is the one who put
that desire there in the first place. So
when God revealed His plan for my return to Ghana with Touch A Life last
September, I was overwhelmed with joy and rejoiced over this verse: Ephesians
3:20. “Now to him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at
work within us.”
After waiting for almost 2
years for God’s perfect timing and sovereign plan, I was headed back to the
children I have loved and God has forever placed in my heart since 2008. The scripture that has been at the heart of
my ministry in Ghana is James 1:27: “Religion that God our Father accepts as
pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their
distress.”
However, returning to Ghana
now for the 4th time, God placed a very specific purpose and passion
on my heart…Freedom in Christ through finding your identity Him. Galatians 5:1: “It is for freedom that Christ
has set us free. Stand firm, then, and
do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” This passion was birthed out of my own
painful struggle with past brokenness involving a broken identity. God’s wait allowed me the time to uncover
these broken areas of my heart and find healing in Him through the therapeutic
process of an art journal where I would learn to draw the TRUTH that would set
me free. This process of claiming and
drawing the Truth of who we are in Christ is a significant part of the
therapeutic art program at Connor’s Creative Art Center.
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| Our Amazing Design Team: Heather, Jason, Christian, Kim, and Veronica |
Again, I am overwhelmed with joy and rejoicing over Ephesians 3:20 with the amazing blessing of a completed
art center that is immeasurably more than I could have ever asked for or
imagined! God is so good and His
faithfulness reaches the skies!!! He has
richly and abundantly provided all the resources and people to orchestrate His
plan to create beauty from ashes and redeem tremendous loss. Our incredible design team along with
Connor’s Song have worked hard these past 2 weeks to design a fun, creative,
and therapeutic space for the children to grow, heal, and dream big about the
hopeful future God has for each of them.
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| I absolutely LOVE my new office!!! |
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| The Art room where I will have all my classes!!! |
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| Kim and I by the Lego wall |
4 comments:
The center looks so good! Thanks for being an example of a woman who waits on God Jenny. Great post.
Your passion, vision, and measured approach are4 awesome. Great meeting you this week. Look forward to staying connected.
Jenny!!! So in love with everything and happy to see that you have a space to call your own.
-Marissa
WOW WOW WOW! The Art Center (and your office) looks amazing. What a transformation! A beautiful place for the children to create and grow. Thanks for all you are doing for the beautiful TAL children.
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