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God's Splendor in Nature

11/2/2012

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We visited the Great Smoky Mountains last weekend at the peak of the fall season.  It rained off and on and the colors were brilliant in contrast.  The dark tree trunks and the multicolored leaves shone with a luster that could not be captured by a photograph, although we tried!  The  old river road with the mountain streams meandering from one side to the other and around every curve a picture that only the Lord himself could paint.  Cars lined the avenue and there were few places to pull off for a photo opportunity, so I prayed for vivid memories of the beauty.  Absolutely breath taking is the only way I can describe the view.  Now,  only three days later we see  the same area sparkling with snow.  No human hand could produce this sudden change and sight and it brings comfort somehow contrasted with the devastation  and loss of life from hurricane "Sandy".  God holds our destiny and we must embrace the mystery of what we experience, good and bad.

Isaiah 55:8-11 NKJ
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.  For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return  to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."

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     Nina Haines received her Bachelor of Science from the University Of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in 1978.  She completed her Masters and subsequently her Doctorate of Divinity from Shalom Bible College and Seminary in
    August of 2010.

    Nina voluntarily worked in the “Kairos Prison Ministry” for fourteen years and served on the local board.  Mark, Nina’s husband and she served for five years in the “Second Chance Prison
    Ministry”.

    She has served on the worship and prayer ministries in five
    different churches and on the ladies’ board at a non-denominational church.  She has taught courses on prayer and
    spiritual growth and in Sunday school classes.  She was trained as a Stephen Minister at a large Methodist church and served as a prayer minister. She served as the praise leader at a weekly prayer and healing service for one year.

    She was a member and leader in Lydia Fellowship International and served on the “Walk to Emmaus” and “Faith Walk” retreat
      organizations.

    She was a chaplain at her local YMCA in a pilot
    chaplaincy program.  She was on the  board of a local prayer ministry, Celebrate Life. 

    Mark and Nina have been favored by the Lord to make four short term prayer walks to Israel and China. In several different organizations Nina has prayer walked Germantown High School, the University of Memphis, Germantown, Seattle, Washington, Washington D.C., Atlana, Gerogia, Nashville, Tennessee, and Chicago, Illinois.

    Mark and Nina currently worship at Awaken  City Church.  Mark and Nina hold services once a month at Morgan County Correctional Complex under Lonnie Greg from Trinity Community Church. Nina has a prayer group in her home the second and fourth Fridays of the month following the Christian Healing Ministries of Jacksonville, Florida under the leadership of Francis and Judith MacNutt.

     Robert Anthony Haines is a structural engineer and
    resides with his wife, Erin in Knoxville, Tennessee.  They welcomed Grady Armistead and Coley Marie into their family January 28, 2017.

    Mark and Nina live in Knoxville  with Grace Jon's first cat.

    Nina completed the Christian Healing Ministries Internship Program Nov. 7-11, 2017.

    "An Odyssey of Deepening Prayer and Praise" is completed and under copyright. It is a 365 day devotional book of insight from the Lord.

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