Dear Friends,
Sunshine was all aglow as 65+ women
descended upon Morning Star for World Impact’s annual women’s retreat
weekend. With all the ladies coming and
just one male compatriot, I trembled in fear.
Not really, but it was a truly different experience for me that
weekend. It was a great picture of women
drawing closer to the Lord and celebrating together.
During
the course of the weekend we had the pleasure of welcoming, serving and getting
to know some of the ladies. Their
stories of redemption from brokenness, addictions and abuse to a relationship
with Christ were powerful testimonies of God’s work in their lives.
One of those testimonies really struck me
as a great example of how Morning Star reaches people. As a youth “Heather” had lived in the
neighborhood of a World Impact church plant in the Wichita area. She started coming to Lighthouse Church and
visited Morning Star Ranch as a camper.
It was during her week at camp that she accepted Christ as her savior.
Heather went home after the week of camp a
changed person. She started to share God with her family, got involved in
church and was discipled. Heather led
her sister to Christ, and then her mom accepted the Lord as well. Her parents had been divorced and out of
Anna’s willingness to share the gospel her parents eventually reconciled and
were remarried. As the years went by she
was discipled by the pastor and started to lead the youth outreach at the
church.
Years later Heather was now back at Morning
Star Ranch, not just attending the women’s retreat but speaking and teaching to
all the ladies during one of the sessions.
Her example is exactly why we Evangelize, Equip and Empower those who we
work with so they can go and reach others well beyond what we ever could. We
serve a great and mighty God who can use anyone for his glory.
Peace & Blessings,
The Leaches
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