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Welcome!

Welcome to the official blog of Love Has A Face.

Here you can get the latest news, media appearances, updates and more on the journey into God's heart of love.  We will also be posting testimonies and reader feedback as they become available. We want to hear how this story has impacted you.

Love Has A Face is scheduled for release in September 2009 from Chosen books.  You can read more on their website here.

You can also find and interact with Michele more on our Facebook Page.  Become a fan and automatically get the latest, as well as help us to get the word out. 

To all who have prayed and loved us in Sudan, our gratitude runs deeper than we can say. Thank you for taking time to love the ones He loves and see through His eyes.  Truly this story is also yours, because it would not have been possible without you.

Author's Clarification

I would like to take a moment to clarify what Love Has A Face is and what it is not, from an author's perspective.

Love Has A Face is not a standard story-line driven linear missionary biography (no matter how it is classified). It is more along the lines of a collection of autobiographical memoirs, like a photo exhibition or art gallery where each chapter is the frame for an image to be portrayed. The images do not tell a linear story (as in a time lapse series of events) but rather probe into a thematic question. What does it mean to be live in God's love and give it away to the world around us?

Life is not linear- it is multidimensional. Very few journeys in real time are linear ones: they have twists and turns, ups and downs and ins and outs. Life reads more like poetic prose. So that is how I write to communicate and capture the world around me.

I did not write this book to give anyone answers. The most valuable tools are those that lead us on a quest to find the answers for ourselves: to find THE answer in the person of Jesus. It is not written to be an apologetic on the christian faith, nor is it a treatise on appropriate missiology practice. It is simply aninvitation to embrace a journey. It ismeantto leave you more questions than answers.

I believe the most meaningful answers are the ones we own by our journey to find them. I could tell you there is well of living water and if you drink of the water in that well you will never be thirsty again. You will live forever. Maybe you would believe me and become excited. Maybe you would think I am a quack. I could give you statistics to prove the value and success rate of the water. I could describe it infinite artistic detail. I might even paint a picture, draw a diagram or show you a photo album. I could tell you all about it and you would still risk death by dehydration. BUT if I were able to point you on a journey where you would find this well for yourself and drink of its depths- which of these has more value for eternity?

Oswald Chambers wrote: "Faith... can be turned into personal possession only by conflict."

Faith is of no value unless becomes it our own. This book is designed to leave you with questions that should provoke an inner conflict where you lay hold of a deepening desire to truly know who Jesus is and to be known by him; to become the expression of His heart in a hurting world.

To all those who think this read is going to be a standard missionary bio, I hope you will still allow it to become an encounter with the Love of One Who never fails and attempt to read it in the light of what it is, not what it is not.

-michele

What are others saying?

“Perry's tender story may very well change your life. Embrace every word!”—Beverly Lewis, New York Times bestselling author 

“Love Has a Face will cause the compassion of Jesus to well up within you and splash on others. A must and mentoring read!”—Sid Roth, host, It’s Supernatural! television, www.SidRoth.org

 “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 God’s 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

I trust that by reading Michele’s 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

 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 God’s hand, infused with God’s light, pulsating with God’s love and radiant with God’s 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