A week ago Wednesday night, at the end of our church family's weekly Bible study, our elders asked Kristy to come up to the front of the auditorium. Kristy (a new R.N.) was leaving the next morning with a mission team to Haiti. We would pray over her, bless her, donate to her travel funds and know that she would represent Jesus to anyone she would serve.
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The interesting thing about Kristy is A WHOLE LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS... including the Peace Corps and past missions... Ecuador... France... ! She's young, vibrant, full of mercy, grace, love, and life! She's one of those people who you aren't around very long without knowing she has a Jesus connection. If you asked Kristy about her spiritual journey... her story... she wouldn't go too far without talking about the lady here in the picture standing to her right. That lady is Mary Lea. Mary Lea is the wife of one of our elders, Dwight. Mary Lea was one of Kristy's elementary school teachers.
.As a young girl, Kristy saw a woman who quite obviously had the "heart of Jesus". Kristy's mother saw it, too. They were attracted to Mary Lea and asked questions about her life, her journey, her faith... Mary Lea demonstrated to Kristy and her mom the mercy, grace, love, and life that Christ had extended to her. Kristy and her mom, Kathy, became christians.
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.In fact, there are many people in our congregation who have been drawn to Jesus by how Mary Lea lives her life. 
It's like I was saying yesterday. When Jesus lived on this earth, He chose to live a different way than those around Him... He stood out... He was so different that they loved Him... worshipped Him... adored Him... and then they crucified Him!
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It's like I was saying yesterday. When Jesus lived on this earth, He chose to live a different way than those around Him... He stood out... He was so different that they loved Him... worshipped Him... adored Him... and then they crucified Him!.
He was surrounded by...
- selfishness, yet He modeled selflessness.
- immorality, yet He pursued purity of thought.
- slanderers, yet He encouraged.
- anger, yet He chose to forgive.
- hate, yet He chose redeeming love.
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Kristy has some choices to make while she is in Haiti and, of course, when she returns to the states. Kathy makes important life choices everyday as a universtiy professor of nursing. Mary Lea has lived a life of modeling Jesus choices. How do more people come to the family of God? Kristy, Kathy, and Mary Lea know!
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I personally see the love and mercy of our LORD when I look at these three sisters-in-Christ...
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"But because of His great love for us,
God,
who is rich in mercy..."
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A wonderful post! Mary Lea and her God fearing husband have allowed God to use them in extrodinary ways.
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