I’m volunteering to write a blog for my sister. It’s not that she doesn’t think or pray for people back home. She hasn’t
been sitting around doing nothing the past few months. And what God’s been taking her through is nothing less than amazing. Her gifting just isn’t writing so as the Body it’s my privilege to share with you some of her stories.
Jenn has one of the biggest hearts for God’s people I think I’ve ever been near. She has His spirit for each unique culture we’ve been a part of. In China she eagerly bought a Tibetan coat, scarf, and hat to blend in with the people we were around. She was a jolly and warm Jesus walking the streets using broken Mandarin to meet the people. Within the first couple of days we were in Africa she had already made good friends that were willing to sit for six hours to braid her hair. From the neck up Jenn was Black-African. It allowed her to engage in conversations with many women as we traveled about the complexities and beauty of hair. Right now she’s looking for a festive Latin American dress – something bright and flowing that she could dance in. Something warm and graceful that would reflect the women in this culture.
This apostolic nature – and by that I mean a vigorous passion for the nations to know Christ – has, sorry for being blunt, saved our team’s butt more than once. The courage inside Jenn’s heart has also grown over the past months allowing this passion to be communicated to us. This nature brings a willingness and responsibility to share with us the news of where God’s heart may be for a certain people group. During her times of intercession – deep prayer – God speaks to her about His people, His most precious creation. And when Jenn shares this with our team we get a glimpse of how in love He really is. It’s refocused us some times and awakened us into action. It also gets the focus off of us. For we fail and stumble more times when we try to do it by ourselves. Yet it is God who is in love with His people and He chooses us to love that way too. By His grace we get to work together in this.
More than once Jenn has suffered for God’s people. And in her delicately compassionate way everyday she humbles herself to suffer more for the cause of Christ. In her prayers and actions Jenn allows the Spirit to break her heart for the people. She wants to not only know their pains and sufferings but to feel them as well. She is deeply serious when she lays herself down to be used and beaten and misunderstood only because that is what Christ is asking of her some days. Some days she even asks for more.
Why would anyone want to hurt for people they don’t even know? Because it’s what Christ did for us when He knew our sins. Because it’s how He wants us to love His people. Because it is the attitude Jesus had. Because that is the beginning of how we’re going to bring Kingdom to earth – to love the widow and the orphan and the rejected. To understand their pain and walk with them in it. To become slaves to God’s mission. To serve and love until it hurts 
and then some.
Jenn hurts for people in a very real way in order to reveal Christ more alive in herself. Believe me, I know. There have been too many times to count during these past months that Jenn has listened to me complain when she could have been worried about her own business. She has prayed for me when she could have been serving someone else. She has held my hurts because she saw the importance of sharing each others burdens. She has laughed and walked with me because see understands the joy and benefits of living this life together.
Jenn Fancy, thank you for loving me. Thank you for loving the nations. Thank you for motivating me to love more simply by your sweet example. You are a huge blessing and encouragement to my everyday. So don’t worry too much that you haven’t blogged in over five months…just keep doing your thing!
