Perry - Love Has a Face: Mascara, a Machete and One Womans Miraculous Journey with Jesus in Sudan

Michele Perry has captured the message of revival in her life and in her book. It is the message of love. The message of His heart. I pray that as you read this book, your heart will be enlarged and you will become so immersed in Jesus that your eyes are opened to see Him in the lost and broken.

from the foreword by Heidi Baker, PhD,
founding director of Iris Ministries, Inc.

Love Has a Face is an incredible book. Facing her own insurmountable obstacles, Michele was born without her left hip and leg. By the time she was thirteen, she had endured 23 surgeries. In midst of these difficulties, Jesus Himself came to Michele and called her to bring His love to the least of these. Leaving the security of America, Michele has become a one-legged ambassador of lovefirst to the slums of India and now to the war-torn regions of Southern Sudan. Michele is transforming one of the most dangerous spots on earth, one child at a time, by the loving heart of Jesus. This moving and amazing story will inspire you, too, to be the face of transforming love right where you live. We cannot say enough about Michele and her work. You have to read this book!

Wesley and Stacey Campbell, RevivalNOW Ministries;
Be A Hero (NGO); board members, Iris Ministries

Michele Perrys book, Love Has a Face, is the amazing story of her work with the orphans in Sudan amidst a war-torn populace. It is the inspiring, heart-touching, faith-building story of one of Gods greats who, instead of becoming bitter over severe birth defects, has been transformed into a modern-day superhero of the faith. It is not only about the work Michele is doing, but the work one can detect between the lines that God has done and is doing in herand the importance of the relationship of these two works. I encourage all to read Love Has a Face, for in doing so, we will have a better picture of The Face: His face. Michele is the real thing and has written about one of the most important things on the Lords heart. I hold Michele and her book in high regard and deep respect.

Randy Clark, president and founder, Global Awakening;
overseer, Apostolic Network of Global Awakening;
founder, Global School of Supernatural Ministry

Michele Perry makes the timeless request, Show me how to love. In Love Has a Face, she shares love stories that come from lessons she has learned. Every story in this book illustrates Gods great love for His children. On each page you will see faith, hope and love. Thank you, Michele, for sharing your love story with us.

Beni Johnson, Bethel Church, Redding, California;
author, The Happy Intercessor

Michele is a very brave lady who risks her life regularly to bring the love and power of God to the desperate and needy in Southern Sudan. May the Lord give us many more like her! Her mission challenges me to the core.

John Arnott, president, Catch the Fire, World

It has been a joy and privilege to know Michele for all these years and watch what God has accomplished through her. How should I describe her to you? Extraordinary love, courage, commitment, obedience, sacrificeMichele is a great example of how God can take an ordinary person to accomplish the extraordinary. Her life is an inspiration to all of us! She doesnt allow circumstances to determine her destiny, but pursues God and embraces His love in such a way that it propels her to rise above the problems she faces. This in turn releases Gods love, presence, miracles, healing and blessing to the poorest and most destitute in her region of Africa. I trust that by reading Micheles story, you will be challenged to embrace God and His love in such intimacy that you, too, will make a difference in the lives of those you encounter daily. Nothing is impossible for God to accomplish through anyone willing to love the way He loves and to obey Him in anything He calls you to do in life.

Mel Tari, author, Like a Mighty Wind

When we commend a book, we are also commending the author in character, integrity and ability as a writer. But I wish to go even further. I am commending to you the very fingerprints of God upon Micheles life and the flow of God in, on and through her. Michele is a remarkably capable author who expresses herself with incisive, engaging skill, weaving life into the stories she tells in a way that invites you not only into her story but into the life behind the story. More than that, Michele herself is a story, written by Gods hand, infused with Gods light, pulsating with Gods love and radiant with Gods joy and power. I commend to you my friend Michele, whose heart will capture yours as you read this book.

Dr. Tom Wymore, simple/house church coach,
The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

Perrys tender story may very well change your life. Embrace every word!

Beverly Lewis, New York Times bestselling author

2009 by Michele Perry

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For the children of Sudan
and all those who dare to embrace
the unpaved road into Gods heart.

Contents

I often get asked these questions: What is the key to revival? What is the secret that enabled you to plant thousands of churches in just a few years in one of the poorest nations on earth? What is your five-, ten-, twenty-year church-planting strategy?

My answer is simple. My answer is always the same. First, we are called to love God powerfully, deeply and intensely. And second, we are called to love our neighbors in the same way. The plan never changes. The strategy remains the same. This kind of fruitfulness can flow only from a place of radical intimacy.

I believe that revival does have a face. It does look like something. It looks like love. It looks like stopping daily for the one in front of you and looking into his or her eyes. You have to see the one. If you cannot see the one, you will not be able to deal with the multitudes. If you see the one, you will understand suffering, because you will see one dying child under a bridge. You will see one baby with AIDS. You will see one widow living alone under a tree. Revival is about looking into his or her eyes and seeing Jesus look back at you.

Michele Perry has captured this message of revival in her life and in her book. It is the message of love. The message of His heart.

For many years I have seen visions of a radical army of laid-down loversa whole generation of those who are so full of passion and intimacy that they run into the darkness without fear to bring in the lost bride. Michele is a forerunner of this new breed of lovers, those who live only to pursue a passionate love affair with Jesus. They are so full of the Presence that no matter what they are asked to do, they say yes. There is no no left in them.