Beautiful stories of God's faithfulness, and pictures of where trusting The God of love can take you....

Beautiful stories of God's faithfulness, and pictures of where trusting The God of love can take you....

Beautiful stories of God's faithfulness, and pictures of where trusting The God of love can take you....

Michelle Perry’s true-life story is both inspiring and moving, not to mention convicting. Born without a leg and surviving many surgeries in her early years, she went on to embrace the love of Jesus and seek to live out that love through her own life. Her journey eventually led her to Sudan in Africa where she currently lives amongst, ministers, evangelizes, and loves, a group of children and their communities as she seeks to spread the love of Christ.

Reading about life in the Sudan is deeply touching, and I was moved to tears by reading of Perry’s experiences caring for the ‘least of these’ that she finds in need of prayer and attention there. Love Has a Face isn’t chronologically arranged, but is presented more in the form of vignettes or snapshots and jumps forwards and backwards through time as Perry reflects upon her journey and experiences.

Readers uncomfortable with charismatic expressions and experiences of faith may find some of Perry’s writing off-putting as she speaks of seeing visions, encountering Jesus face to face, watching God heal through prayer, and more. Though I’m not charismatic, I found the sharing of her personal faith-walk inspiring, though it differs from my own.

Perry calls each reader to delve more deeply into love with their Savior and work wherever god has placed them to spread that love abroad amongst those they are called to work with. Her faith-building story certainly reminds us that God is still very actively at work in the world around us.

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NCLA Review - This book is a disturbing mixture of mysticism, the supernatural and Christianity. Michele Perry is obviously a dedicated and loving missionary who writes of her work in the Sudan. Had she kept to writing about her work and realistically portraying the life of a missionary in a war-torn country this book would have been much more interesting. Instead it is a poorly written and confusing telling of her unusual theology and interpretation of the Gospel. If you want to read a book about missionary work in the Sudan this would not be a good choice but instead a true disappointment. Rating: 1 —AL
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