Nancy Perry

Hello Everyone!!
 
I can’t believe that it’s almost May. This past month has flown by for me. I have quite a lot to tell you.
 
Well nearly a month ago we went to Delden, Holland in our big 8 seater van to go to a YWAM Leadership consultation for Western Europe. We drove at midnight down south to a port city called Dover. We got there around 5 and watched the sunrise as we waited to board the ferry. The ferry ride was…well…let’s say uneventful. At first I was like “Whoa! We’re on a ferry!!” but then the exhaustion of not sleeping all night caught up with us and we all slept the whole way. When we arrived in France we drove our car off the ferry, took off our coats and put on our sunglasses. Sun! I had forgotten there was such a thing! We then proceeded to drive north to Holland. At this point we realized that the map we had didn’t actually have France on it. Just Belgium and Holland. We were in France. So we set off and I was giving directions by a mixture of random directions from google that didn’t make sense or have any roads that we recognized, a map that didn’t have France on it and my gut instinct. We had been driving for about 45 minutes and then we pulled over so we could make sure we were going in the right direction as everyone else thought that we were going in the wrong direction. I said “I still think we’re going in the right direction” and I proudly let you know that I was right. To be honest, I was surprised myself.
 
After the consultation we drove back down to France to get the ferry back to England and then off to Spring Harvest which is a week long Christian Family Festival. We worked with the 8-11’s. We were gone from York for about 3 weeks and those 3 weeks were a time of solidifying things about the future and working against human trafficking. One of the cool things that God has opened the door for is a stand that I am going to set up in the city center in York for a day that is raising awareness for Human Trafficking/the sex slave trade. There will be some flyers and stuff like that along with creative videos. My friend Dave is an artist and does installation art which is more interactive, 3d-ish sort of art. He’s going to make a piece about human trafficking and we’ll have it there too. We’ll be there to talk to people and stir it up in their hearts. Oh, another really cool thing is I am starting an awareness group with an organization called ‘Stop the Traffik’. I have lots of other ideas but there’s not enough space for me to write it all. God is still moving, revealing and birthing. The process of discovering this passion for justice and freedom that God’s given me to being in a place where God is using me in it has been and is still a beautiful one. God is so faithful.
 
So this is Amazing. I have been praying for more monthly support because I am barely making it with rent and such. Then one night I got really down because financial things seem so big and hard to get around. I guess I had forgotten that God is in control and is taking care of me. Anyways, it hit me one night that I would need money to pay for our 2 week mission trip to Amsterdam, money to go to China, and I had been wanting to go home in August but it was too expensive. Also my best friend’s wedding is in June in Atlanta (she did the DTS with me last year). She and her fiance had been saying that I should come but I was telling them I had no money to save to go. Well one night I was with my friends and they were saying that I should pray for it and I was a bit discouraged because it seemed that God hadn’t really been moving much lately in the financial area. I kinda half-heartedly prayed and carried on with what I was doing. The next day around 5 in the evening I got a text from a friend and I thought is said “I want to pray for you to go home to America in June.” I was like ok you can pray for me if you want. That’s strange that you asked if you could pray for me. You could have done it with out asking. Then I read it again just because I thought it was strange and realized that it said ‘pay for you to go’ not ‘pray for you to go’. I said “WHAT?! She surely missed out a letter!”. But sure enough she’s paying for me to come home in June for 2 weeks and I get to go to the wedding! She said she prayed about it and felt God wanted her to bless me. Thank you God. I felt He was saying to me that a daughter doesn’t only ask her Father for a few things because she thinks He won’t have much to give her. She askes for what her heart is longing for and believes He can give it to her. I need to do the same. That He has much. So so much and if I ask for little that’s what I’ll get. Ask big of God. So once again I can testify to the statement that God is Faithful. He takes care of your needs and wants.
 
Well I think that’s all I’ll do for now because this is getting quite long.
 
If you’d like to pray for me here are a couple of points:
     That God will provide for my financial needs.
     That the oppurtunites and open doors ahead of me will follow through to be good and helpful.
     That God will surround me with friends and strengthen my relationships
     That I will continue to grow deeper with God.
 
I love you all loads!
 
 
P.s. I think you Southerners will apperciate this. I cooked 2 very southern meals for my friends here. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits and gravy and then another time breakfast for dinner. Scrambled egg, sausage, biscuits and gravy. They are hooked on my southern biscuits now. Oh yes and they are oh so curious to know and experience grits. So I will be bringing some back for them.
 
So for those of you in America and particularly Florida I’ll see you in June!!! Can’t wait for those hugs!
 
These are some cool Human trafficking web sites. Check them out!
www.stopthetrafik.org
www.notforsalecampaign.org
www.thetruthisntsexy.com