Jeanie regrets to say she is unable to post to her blog spot while in India due to restrictions. She will update as soon as she is able. Thank you

June 17, 2011

Blessings friends and

I am excited to share with you how the Lord is opening doors for missions in an amazing way. As you all know mission’s has been the very passion that beats in my heart. I am able to partner with others to bring the Kingdom into Nations. I am honored to partner with my old church Vertical Call, for The “Vertical Call Prayer Festival India.”

Our mission

Staring at noon on November 1st, the VCPF will begin 240 hours of night and day prayer and worship that will end at 12 noon on November 11^th (11/11/11). During this time of prayer, thousands of hosted gatherings across India's landscape will cry out to God night and day. On November6th at the 121st hour, approximately 3,000 delegates will gather in

Hyderabad to represent India's 28 states and 7 territories. Worship teams from India and other nations are being invited to participate. This convergence of praying saints will gather together in unity to pray for their nation to come to Christ.

What the team will be doing

Each Vertical Call team member will be serving with Indian delegates in prayer, intercession and worship. Many other opportunities for ministry will be given to team members such as praying for the sick (National Healing Rooms of India will be involved), participating in sessions, impartation prayer, etc. It is our goal that each Indian delegate leave healed, revived and empowered for service. God wants to shake India with

His glory!

My Mission Statement

My mission is to see the body of Christ come into her full inheritance in Christ Jesus. My desire is to see people get launched into their purpose and destiny. I long for the church to come into such a place of true intimacy with her Beloved King. I long for the nations to know the one I love and serve, which is the one and only true King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. The Kingdom is at hand and I desire for the Kingdom to be released in the nations, including the United States of America. Jesus said, “ Ask for the nations as your inheritance, and now I am stepping into my inheritance." India is only one of the many nations I cried out to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and for nations to turn to Him so that He would heal their land.

This mission’s trip will be from November 2nd – November 15, 2011. The cost of the trip will be $ 4,000. I will need to place a deposit of $500.00 by July 15, 2011. I need the final payment of $2,800.00 due by August 31, 2011. The rest of the finances that will be given will go towards Visa, entry taxes, luggage and other tapped on expenses while in India. Please ask the Holy Spirit if you are to sow into this trip. I would also welcome those who feel led to sow in even while I am in India.

Please pray for me anytime the Lord places me on your heart. There is such a great need in the mission field to have that covering through prayer, because you come up against all kinds spiritual warfare. My team needs your prayers as well, so please partner in prayer for all of us.

Please write checks to “The Fathers House” and put in noted area “Jeanie Griggs.”

404 Woodruff Mountain Rd

Roseburg OR, 97471

The Directors of this are Carter and Diana Wood. To read more go to, “Vertical Call Prayer Festival India.” Go to http://verticalcallinternational.com/’ or you can call Vertical Call at (707) 575-5956

Thank you for your financial support, and all your prayers.

Blessings

Jeanie Griggs

I ponder many things as I can not sleep. I ponder the ways of the Lord and about ministry that becomes a thing to be seen, rather then a ministry where Jesus is seen. For me I rather be hidden in Him where no one sees me but the one who dwells in me. I had a friend go to the store the other day and a lady who worked their asked her," are you one who serves Jesus? My friend smiled because she knew this lady saw Jesus and not her. To me ministry means nothing, but relationship means everything once we lose sight of that to conform to what everyone else wants us to be, then we do not know our Beloved Jesus at all.It is through relationship ministry just happens not so we can be seen but He can be seen through us.

I have come to realize that telling someone they should be out there on the street doing street ministry instead of doing this and that is total manipulation and condemnation I am putting on my sister and brothers in Christ, instead I should be pointing them to know Jesus more through relationship with the Father,son and Holy spirit. The Lord said we are to to be like Him yes, but in order to smell like Him, look like Him, and walk like Him ,and talk like Him we are to spend time with him. Through spending time with him we naturally supernaturally walk in the ministry He has placed on us not what others have placed in us.

It is true Jesus never spent time in the building, He spent time in the streets where people where crushed and broken and had great needs. Yes Jesus spent time with His disciples as a family and spent time with them in the real world where they learned to walk as a family unit through relationship.

These are just things I am pondering. What is it like to walk in the fullness of deep intimacy with Jesus even more. I have no personal interest in ministry now I have laid it all down and am focusing on just being with Him in my new place of residence. Many have asked me about what church am I going to well I have no plans to find one right away that may freak many of you out and that is okay because I still walk hand in hand with the Lord and I long for more of Him. I am just going to fallow His lead and allow Him to rule and rain even more in my life.

There are many ways we can be locked in a system or structure my desire is to only be locked into a deeper place of intimacy with the trinity.

One more thing I have pondered since being home about ministry.I have seen where the passion to fallow Jesus in the ministry becomes a driven source where Jesus is the title of the ministry not the source of the ministry. Once you step out of that place of intimacy people become numbers and people are tools for your agenda rather then apart of the family of the body of Christ that moves together as one. This is a sad thing.

Yes God is faithful and always will be as we learn in this journey it is all about relationship not the agenda.

Blessings
Jeanie

Hi my friends and family,

I made it home on Thursday night,it is so good to be home and sleeping in my own bed for a change.

I wanted to thank you all so much for your love, and pray, and support for my trip to Russia and through the Middle East. So much did happen and I know because of your prayers the Lord kept us covered in His wings of love and protection,and grace.

Right now I am trying to adjust to time change,and to allot of change here at home,and loss since coming home.I am asking you to be patient with me as I am taking a few weeks away from everyone and everything to get before the Lord.I will write a mission statement about my trip when I have time with the Lord to regroup and digest so much that has happened.

Thanks again and may the Lord richly bless you.

Jeanie

Hi and much love to you.

The students all graduated last Thursday. I was blessed to be apart of such a lovely class of students seeing them transformed and walking in greater revelation of the Fathers love and heart.

We have made it to Turkey, and the Russia team will meet us this Wednesday and we will continue on in our journey. We have to get our Visas to be able to move on into other areas here in the Middle East.

We will be traveling to Syria, Georgia, Jordan, and Israel to do prayer walks and what ever else the Holy spirit directs us to do. Paula is walking by faith as she only received half the finances for the team to be able to come and is totally trusting that the rest of the finances will come in.

Please keep us in prayer. We need wisdom, and we need clear direction from the Lord in the areas we are going into. We need the gift of discerning of spirits, we need prayer in the area of favor, and grace in every area we walk into. We need prayer for our team to walk in unity. We need prayer for clarity. we need prayer for divine protection over our health, and physical bodies.We are praying for divine connections and appointments.Please pray that we will be wonderfully and fearfully led by the power of the Holy spirit.We are asking for the anointing to see deeper in the spirit, and to be able to pull down heaven where ever we are.We desire to know and see what our Beloved Father is doing and walk in it. And we are praying each team member will step into their anointing and gifting to be able function as a body together.

Please continue to sow into this trip as we are traveling all over into these different places finances are always needed.This seed will be sown into good soil, as we have a long journey ahead of us. Please go to my page it is updated and I will try and keep you posted along the way. I might not be able to share details with you but please do not stop praying we need to be covered by as much prayer as we can get.

If you desire to sow into my trip please make sure you put Jeanie's mission trip to Russia or Middle East in the (note area) of the check.

The Lighthouse church, Santa Rosa
PO Box 2810
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

Phone: 707-539-2877

Or you can send money securely online to my Paypal account (water-thru-therock@sbcglo

bal.net) through Paypal at www.paypal.com

Thanks so much and may you be fully and richly blessed

Jeanie Griggs

Hello once again from Russia. 7-10-09

I am sorry it has taken me awhile to write, as things are getting busy here as we are nearing the end of school. I can not believe how quickly time has flown by, it seems as if I just arrived and at the same time I feel like I have been here forever.lol

Well we are trying to get all the last minute teaching in before next Friday. The picture above is from a skit I did this afternoon. I was teaching on culture and Theology. It was a fun skit, as Joe really has a gift to make people laugh while the subject matter is a serious one, in how we can reach others through there personal culture by serving them and learning from them to be able to come along side them and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them. As I was teaching this afternoon, the Lord came upon me as I shared a vision I had on my bed,just minutes before I was to do the skit and teach on the subject matter. It was wonderful! Please go to facebook to see the videos of the skit, it will be posted on there the videos are a bit sandy but you will get the humor of it and the subject matter. (FUN)

School will be over a week from this Friday, and some of the students and staff will be going on the outreach to the Middle East.

Well I must say each student had found a place in my heart despite the language barrier. They are so precious, and very gifted in the Lord. Allot of them found their freedom as the Lord had really showed up in every meeting setting them free from one thing or another. Some received major healing in their hearts, lives, and even physical healing.I am always amazed seeing the Lord move the way he does. I am honored and Blessed He would allow me to see it and be apart of it. I tell you I take nothing lightly when it comes to the Lord.

I know on a personal note it will be hard to say good bye to the students. I am excited to see how the Lord brings them into their destiny and callings in the future.I know I will hear about some of them and what the Lord is doing in them. I am like a Mother on the side lines cheering them on. :-)

A week from this Friday Paula, Connie, Joe and I, will be getting on a plane to Turkey. We will be resting for five days, and Connie and I will be getting our Visas for Syria. I can not wait to just rest for a few days, then we will catch up with the Russian team, and go into certain areas to pray and intercede and will be going to the border of Iran to pray and intercede, We will then head into Israel and pray and intercede and do ministry in a church there. I know it will be great! Please keep us in prayer as we will be in the mission field for several weeks.

Well that is a quick update.May you be richly blessed in the Lord. Please continue to sow as the Lord leads you, as it is all needed as I travel to many of these different places in the Middle East. Please continue to pray as we so need all your prayers as well.

If you write checks please send it to my church and please make sure in the "note" area you write Jeanie Griggs missions.

Light House church
PO Box 2810
Santa Rosa Ca,95405

Thanks again and all my love to you.
Jeanie Griggs

Hello from Russia 6-28-09

The picture above is of the staff I went with to the Black Sea for a mini Holiday as they would call it here in Russia. On the left of the picture is a beautiful young Girl Named Onia, that Paula adopted here in Russia she has quite the testimony that I will share with you in a little while. On the right next to Onia is Paula who is the founder of this ministry here in Russia which is called, "Living Waters Russia." to the right of Paula is another precious lady named Onia as well, to the right of Onia is Ira which is Paula's other adopted daughters real Mother, and on the right of Ira is Lera which is the daughter of Ira and is Paula's other adopted daughter.And finally on the right of the photo at the end is Connie who I met in Africa , who now lives in Russia and serves Paula and Living Waters Russia Ministry.

So now you have a little idea of who some of the staff are here. We had a blast just being together and having a little get away, while the students went on a mini missions trip for a couple of days. I am tired and resting before they all get back today. We have one more day off so the students can rest and then on Tuesday school will begin again.

I have not told you much about Russia as I have been taking it all in. I find Russia to be a nation that has gone through so much in wars and in refugee camps that the people here do need major healing and some have gone just into a mental break down state, that either they mentally break down or drink them selves to death or just become so cold and Callused. I can see why the Lord called Paula here to bring Jesus the healer to this Nation. Let me tell you a little story about two of Paula's adopted daughters that you see in the picture above.

Onia, is a beautiful young girl who came through such tremendous odds. Onia's Father at birth did not want her because she was a girl and even tried to get her Mother to abort her. Onia's Mother did not go through with the abortion. Onia's Father wanted nothing to do with Onia and they lived in a place Called, Chechnya. Here is a little History of her country.

The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was a conflict between Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria fought from December 1994 to August 1996. After the initial campaign of 1994–1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to seize control the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flat lands in spite of Russia's overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support. The resulting widespread demoralization of federal forces, and the almost universal opposition of the Russian public to the brutal conflict, led Boris Yeltsin's government to declare a ceasefire in 1996 and sign a peace treaty a year later. The official figure for Russian military death toll is 5,500, while most estimates put the number between 3,500 and 7,500, or even as high as 14,000.^[5] Although there are no accurate figures for the number of Chechen militants killed, various estimates put the number at about 3,000 to over 15,000 deaths. Various figures estimate the number of civilian deaths at between 30,000 and 100,000 killed and possibly over 200,000 injured, while more than 500,000 people were displaced by the conflict and the cities and villages across the republic were ruined.^[6]

There were many wars that would break out in this area. Onia,was a victim to these wars and she got captured in a Baptist church by the terrorists, and her Mother as well got captured and taken to separate place from where they took Onia.. For three months they held little Onia against her will as a hostage she was only 13 years old at the time. By this time her Father had left them. So this little girl had no idea if her sister was alive or dead, and Onia did not know if her mom or Aunt where still alive. While Onia had been captured had an encounter with the Lord, The Lord told her she was going to be released and her that her Mother was still alive. Onia, said, she had such a peace in her heart when the Lord spoke to her. One day Onia was left with a man who had to watch her so she would not escape. The man who was to hold her hostage helped her get away and had her live with his aunt until she could find her family if they were still alive. Then Onia was living in a church office where Paula had met little Onia, and Paula knew this little girl had been through allot as she was so traumatized that little Onia could not even speak, and Paula's heart went out to Onia because she also was not getting much food at all except left overs.Paula wanted to take her in and just love on her and raise her. Finally Onia came to live with Paula, and they found Onia's mom in a basement where all the houses where destroyed and no one house was left standing many people were killed but some how her Mother managed to live, but not with out a mental breakdown from all that took place from that war. Onia's Mother lives here at the center but tends to go off into fits of rages some times and still has mental issues. Onia's sister is still alive and lives in another place. Onia is only 23 years old now and lives with Paula still receiving love that brings forth healing along with her real Mother. This is just a short version of Onia's life.

Many have come to the center here who have been hurt by the wars and have had tremendous losses. The stuff they go through have left them so traumatized that Paula spends her life here raising up other Russians to serve as Jesus's mouth, hands and feet and to release deliverance and healing into the Russian people here who have gone through so much.

Lera is the other daughter here that Paula took in as her own. Lera has a mom who could not handle life and what it had done to her, that she is on medication for mental illness. You can see in Lera's eyes the pain she goes through seeing her mom in such a state. Her mom was on the trip with us to the Black Sea, and her mom had issues with almost passing out, and then she had a fit which is like a Seizure yesterday late afternoon as we were getting ready to come back to the center. Lera, gets scared some times and my heart breaks for her. Paula has been a huge Blessing to these girls as the Lord has caused Paula to love those who are hurting and brokenhearted, she takes them in and just loves them to healing it is amazing.Paula trusts the Lord for all the fiances to be able to do these things she is one precious women who lives by faith in a way I have never seen before. In fact I am praying about how to help her get finances for this center, and the other ones the Lord has placed in her heart to even start up.

As I have come to know these stories it has changed me and has even brought some healing to my own life. The other day we had a massive corporate deliverance take place with students from Communism that is over the Russian people here. As the students began to cry out as they were getting delivered I could instantly feel the horrific gut wrenching pain each one had, I felt like I was going to break under the weight of the pain I felt so strongly from each person in the room. I was not sure what was going on with me until the Lord began to speak to me. He said, now you have tasted what I feel every day when my children have been so wounded and hurt. My heart breaks for them just as yours is breaking now. I had to leave right after the deliverance because the pain I was feeling from each student was so overwhelming. He was letting me feel just a small amount of what He feels for His Children. I was a bit of a mess that day.

The Lord is moving here and changing lives and is really doing amazing things. He is changing my perspective and my heart. I see a people who God so loves and desires relationship with. I experience His heart that beats for the beautiful people of this nation. In my eyes Paula is a women who desires to carry the Fathers heart to dark and hurting nations. These are also my desires as well. I desire to pray and intercede for the Lord to release what is needed to accomplish His desires through Paula and the ministry here.

So here is a little update of this past week.

Much love to you.
Jeanie