Brianne Henry

I just got back from a weekend in Branson with the ladies of Northland Baptist Church. The theme for the weekend was "Rest." Now, let me just tell you right now...I don't think I rested a whole lot over the weekend. We were up pretty late! But I did learn a few important things that I wanted to share. First off, there are two types of rest. Eternal rest and physical rest...they very much go hand-in-hand. How's your life when you aren't focused on God? What seems to happen when you take matters into your own hands instead of relying on God? Disaster, stress, chaos, failure. Right? Our minds must be focused on God (and our eternity with Him) or else physical rest cannot come. Isaiah 40:28-31 goes through a few characteristics of us as humans and then of God. They are the exact opposite. So we can rest in the fact that when we grow faint or weary...God never grows faint or weary. He empowers the weak and increases our strength. Take a look at the beginning of Isaia...

Good morning blog readers! I hope you are having a great Wednesday. I told everyone I would provide more information about our upcoming mission trip. Here is most of the letter that I sent out to family. If you can support us in any way we would truly appreciate it!!!! God has truly been at work in our lives since we moved to Kansas City. He has provided us with an amazing new church, Northland Baptist Church, where we have been blessed with great ministry opportunities and a wonderful church family. I would like to share with you a challenging ministry opportunity that God has laid on mine and Luke's hearts.   From January 1 to January 8, we will be travelling to El Salvador to participate in a variety of ministry opportunities. Northland Baptist Church has a partnership with a church plant in El Salvador, as well as with an orphanage for sexually abused girls. While there, we will split our time between outreach projects with the church plant and ministering to the y...

So, we went back to visit family in Ramsey this past weekend. I must say, last time we were there, we had only been living in KC for about 3 weeks so I didn't notice much. But this time...things felt different. I think I'm beginning to get the hang of the "city life" if you will. Once we were on I70 in Illinois, I noticed how dark everything was. No street lights, no building lights, not very many cars. We got to my parent's house and it was soooo quiet. We can't hear traffic from our apartment (hallelujah!) but we do have neighbors, lots of kids around, an airport about 15 minutes away and an occasional siren or two. The whole atmosphere is just...different. Which brings me to my next point - I saw many people over the weekend that I hadn't seen since we had left. People at church, people from my old job...they all wanted to know "Are you happy there?" Here's my answer... Absolutely, 100% YES in all capital letters. I am very happy here. I...