Newsletter | September 2024

My grandma and grandpa talked about their faith in Jesus throughout my entire childhood, but it became most visible in times of crisis. When my health crashed during my teenage years, they opened up their guest bedroom and rolled my suitcase inside. Night after night, they knelt beside my bed and cried out to a Savior they knew personally.

In bathrobes and house slippers, as they bowed their gray heads in prayer, they made the Bible believable to me. I can’t remember the specific words they said, but I’ve never been able to forget the reverence that marked their prayers, the humility that filled their requests, and the hope that looked in anticipation to a faithful God they knew would not forsake them. The way my grandparents lived out the gospel helped give depth and authenticity to my own faith.

Studies have shown that U.S. teens still learn about the reality of Christ by the example of individuals such as their parents or grandparents. They are more likely to look to these people as sources of truth . . . even more than social media or their friends.¹

The next generation is looking to you. Your daughters and granddaughters, your friends’ children, the little girls at church—they are not only listening to what you say, they are watching how you respond in difficult moments.

Women need you to come alongside them and show them what it means to apply what God’s Word says, to live out His truth in both good times and the hardest moments.

God has placed us here on earth as ambassadors of the gospel of Christ. And our calling as His followers is to make His love and His truth visible and believable—and beautiful—to skeptical observers.

Because they see it in us. Because they see it changing us. His love making us beautiful. Adorning us. And, through us, adorning His gospel.²

This call remains. When you adorn the gospel of Jesus Christ, when you live it out in practical ways, you impact the faith of the younger women following behind you, leaving an indelible mark on the next generation.

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¹ Barna Group, “Over Half of Gen Z Teens Feel Motivated to Learn More About Jesus,” Barna, February 1, 2023, www.barna.com/research/teens-and-jesus.

² Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2017), 18. 

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From Generation to Generation

Revive Our Hearts is an invaluable program to me because it is so timely, biblical, relevant, and practical to my daily walk as a worker and as a woman with grown children and school-aged grandchildren. I recommend it often and quote things I’ve learned. Thank you so much for offering it. —“Dierdra”

Last fall I was able to watch all of Revive ’21 online—so many takeaways. The most impactful for me was Susan Hunt telling us that the most important thing we can do as grandparents is to let our grandchildren see us reading our Bibles. How easy is that? How powerful is that? How amazing is that? —“Sarah”

I am seventy-seven years old and just finished reading Lies Women Believe. How dearly I wish I had read this fifty years ago. I have ordered sets to send to my daughter, sister, and granddaughters, and I will be reading it again. —“Paula”

Girls, It's Your Turn

“The Bible tells me that it’s time to double-down in investing in the next generation.”

Susan Hunt has served God faithfully for decades, sharing many experiences with our ROH family. She has even been a mentor and inspiration for our lead teacher, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth.

Susan was recently on the Revive Our Hearts podcast with her moving message, “Don’t Give Up on that Modeling Career.” Find it at ReviveOurHearts.com.

Girls, it’s your turn. Whatever your age, grow up and step up. Share the gospel and your life with another woman. I don’t know what will happen in the life of the other woman, but I do know that the kingdom will advance in your life. —Susan Hunt, speaking at Revive ’17

This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace. —Colossians 1:6 nlt

On Wednesday night, May 15, if you had looked through the open windows of the Tabernacle, a gathering space at Gull Lake Ministry Center in Michigan, you would have seen a group of over two hundred people standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the center of the room. Revive Our Hearts team members, Ambassadors, volunteers, and their spouses stood together—with eyes closed and arms lifted, they sang with one voice:

Holy, Holy
Are You Lord God, Almighty
Worthy is the Lamb
Worthy is the Lamb¹

As the final note of the song echoed in the room, the various accents that had blended together during the chorus became more pronounced. Japanese, French, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swiss—those were just a sampling of the nine languages representing Revive Our Hearts members who had flown in from twelve different countries for our first-ever Staff Summit.

Strengthened through Prayer

With less than three full days together, it would have been logical for the schedule to have been packed with business meetings and presentations. Instead, our entire Revive Our Hearts team used the precious hours we had together to seek the presence of the Lord.

Daniel Henderson, guest speaker and founder of Strategic Renewal, and Justin Unger, worship leader, guided our team through a Prayer Summit composed of “Scripture-fed, Spirit-led, worship-based prayer.” Throughout the day, God’s Word was proclaimed in multiple languages. As the Holy Spirit stirred our hearts to worship, we proclaimed the glory of God and rejoiced in the power and love of Jesus. We praised Him with smiles and through tears, surrendering ministry needs to Him, asking Him to bring prodigal children home, praying for His protection over the pastors in the room, and submitting ourselves to His authority.

If we don’t have the Lord’s hand upon us, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth reminded our staff, we won’t make it. “Ministry is a sacred and holy calling,” she said. “We press on,” knowing we’ll give an account to the Lord for our work and that one day we’ll receive His reward. Nancy’s teaching session walked us through the example of the Levites in the book of Numbers. As she concluded, she turned to Ezra 7:28: “I took courage because I was strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God.”

“He will continue to strengthen us,” she said.

The Power of God Across the Globe

On our final morning, a group of leaders from various international teams took a seat in chairs that had been placed across the stage in the Tabernacle. Each one shared, providing a brief overview of how she had personally connected with Revive Our Hearts, how she currently serves within the ministry, and how our staff can be praying for the rest of her team.

Although many of these leaders serve on different continents and cannot speak each others’ languages, they have much in common: each woman has been impacted by Revive Our Hearts’ message and is passionate about seeing the power of God enable women to experience freedom, fullness, and fruitfulness in Christ. God is using their obedience to Him to take the good news of the gospel and the hope of Christ to every corner of the world.

Sabrina Aslan, a leader with Revive Our Hearts Farsi, asked, “Is God doing a work?” She answered her own question immediately: “Yes.” Sabrina was first connected to Revive Our Hearts in 2008. By 2009, her six-year-old was diagnosed with a brain tumor. While she was in the hospital, the biblical messages from Revive Our Hearts became a lifeline to her. Now, as she and her team translate content to reach other women in desperate situations, she is seeing God provide for their needs as well.

She told our staff about an Iranian couple who were in a desperate financial situation. When the wife, a new believer, found out she was pregnant, she considered aborting the baby, but she couldn’t afford the procedure. She received an episode of the Revive Our Hearts podcast that had been translated into her language, and she shared it with her husband. The program was part of Nancy’s “Heaven Rules” series. In Farsi, the word for “heaven” and for “sky” is asama. Months later, when this Iranian woman gave birth, she told Sabrina the name of the baby she almost aborted: Asama.

Until We Sing Again

The Lord will continue to strengthen us. We hold fast to that truth. As each individual left Gull Lake, Michigan, returning to their homes, their families, and their communities, it was with revived confidence that the Lord will finish the good work that He has started. He will be faithful as He continues to display His grace in our hearts, our local churches, and in the roles we complete as part of the Revive Our Hearts team.

During the Staff Summit, we were reminded of the great privilege it is to be part of this ministry—not because of anything we do in and of ourselves but because our work is done for Christ. As the Revive Our Hearts family, we look forward to the next chapter of the ministry with great joy, knowing that it is a preview of the day we will be reunited as brothers and sisters, singing together once more:

Holy, Holy
Are You Lord God, Almighty
Worthy is the Lamb
Worthy is the Lamb
Amen²

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¹Michael W. Smith, “Agnus Dei.”
²Michael W. Smith, “Agnus Dei.”