SPRING NEWSLETTER 2024

Hello wonderful partners and friends! I have been so incredibly blessed by all of you!
My recent trip to Asia was the most significant and sobering mission I have been on in my lifetime. I cannot adequately put into words how very grateful I am for your intercession, encouragement, and generosity. I felt covered, protected, and up girded.
I was recently asked what my takeaways were. Hmmm, I thought. Then I realized I took away in my heart and soul every trafficked girl who called me momma and wanted to come home with me.
There are significant moments in our lives that forever mark us. This trip was one of those. It was more than a missions trip. It was an encounter with the heart of God to the most vulnerable at-risk people, those who do not have a dream for a better existence. The wisdom of God came upon me when I was at a loss as to how to minister to them. It was not as easy as leading them in a prayer. Jesus was just another god to them to add to their list. It was not as easy as laying hands on them and awaiting the power of God to come upon them. But when I asked them what their dream was for their future, it was as if that became the open door. Dreaming, purpose, and vision are the highest form of motivation.  So, listening to their dreams of a better life for their children, opening a hair salon, a restaurant, or writing a book became the springboard to deep conversation. Too often we don’t look at someone in their eyes, listen, and believe for them that it is possible. Telling them our path to freedom from sexual abuse and fatherlessness leveled the playing field. Jesus was the one true way out of immense darkness.
We each have a story.
We each make a difference in the world. I had no strategy going to Southeast Asia. I determined in my heart I would just love the one in front of me. Some embraced me and would not let go. Others were so traumatized, they just glared into space. So how do any of us change the world? Our ministry is to the person in front of us. I have served the Lord for many years and have learned a few things from the Lord along the way that really matter.

• Keep receiving His love. Without it, we have nothing.
• Be generous with your gifting, your finances, and your time.
• Be sure to sow time into staying spiritually and physically healthy. Meditate on His word, take long walks, and rest well. Longevity and endurance are key.
• Your prayer language is the greatest asset you have as it sets your course for a Kingdom mindset. James tells us our tongue is as the rudder of a ship.
• Be ever so mindful and grateful for the work of the cross. How easy we can be drawn into projects, tasks and ministry while forgetting our own story of salvation and deliverance from darkness.
• Jesus is amazing!!!! Time is short. Stay humble and live a life that honors Him above all things!

 
Finally, our East Coast Seer Conference was really a beautiful time of equipping, teaching, and impartation for the hour in which we live. If you were a paid registrant for the conference, by now you should have received your link to all sessions.  We are so glad you were able to join us.
For the rest of March and into April, my itinerary is closer to home:

• For the next few Tuesdays, I will be conducting private telephone mentoring sessions with my partners.  I love giving back to you!
• 3.23.24 - I’m conducting the last of four prophetic training sessions at a church near Raleigh, NC. (Private for church)
• 3.28.24 – Impact Prophetic Leadership Mentorship Zoom for my partners
• 4.10.24 – Coffee Chat with Ruth for my partners
• 4.25.24 - Impact Prophetic Leadership Mentorship Zoom for my partners
• 4.30.24 – 5.5.24 – Women in Ministry Network trip
• More to come!

Many Blessings,
Ruth
(The photo is me sharing my testimony to a group of women, some prostitutes, in Cambodia.)