Hudsons Support Letter

Dear Family,

After much prayer and fasting, I believe God is once again leading me into another adventure to further His kingdom. To God be the glory! Having finished my time with Coastland Consultants, I felt God’s call for me to go and join Street Life Ministries in New York City. This is a ministry that works with the homeless and broken in NY. As we all know, New York City is an extremely large city and is literally the city of nations.

So I am planning on joining Street Life in their efforts to take the Gospel to the streets. Not only will I help work with them in their efforts to bring life to the streets, this will also be a period of a substantial increase in my life and hopefully, a launching pad for the ministry I want to start one day.

As I am preparing to leave for NY, I wanted to inform all of those who have supported me in the past and those that are close to me that I will now need to raise a minimum of one thousand dollars a month to work with this ministry. This will cover everything from living expenses to food, laundry, traveling, and other expenses along the way. This ministry is a Full-Time job, and I will not be able to pick up any additional work while being with them. I know that now is rather a difficult time for most people, but God promises that he will water those who water others (Prov. 11:25) and that those who sow generously will reap in abundance (2 Cor. 9:6). We also know that it is better for your sake that you contribute to any ministry or missionary. As Paul says, the money you provide is credited to your account in Heaven (Phil. 4:17).

I could continue with verses explaining the benefits of giving but as a mature Christian you probably know them all. I am asking if you would pray and ask God if He would have you give to what I will be doing in NY. Every donation you give, whether monthly or a one-time gift is tax deductible for your benefit.

Lastly, I would like to point out the importance of small monthly gifts. I have spoken to many people who wanted to make a gift of 10 dollars but felt it was too small, but when ten people all feel the same way it can end up being a considerable loss. Remember no amount is too little. Pray and ask God if He wants you to partake in this journey with me whether you feel to give a small amount or large. We must be obedient.

If you feel led to give you may write out all checks to Street Life Ministries with nothing in the memo, just send the check addressed to me at the following address.

Hudson Wells

154-11 Ash Ave.

Flushing, NY 11355.

May God Bless You Always,

Hudson Taylor Wells

PS. There are two principal ways that you can be particularly helpful without feeling like you are giving too little or too much. One way is if everyone I send a letter to would try to support me 15 dollars a month, which seems little, but will cover me. I also know that it is frustrating to have to send so many checks, so I have also set up a website where you can commit to supporting me the entire sum of a years worth of support, 180 dollars, during one month. That way you can just send one check and have the same effect as if you had supported me all year long. If you chose to select a month to help me, I would specifically spend that month praying for you and your family. On the website, I will have a list of months that I will be serving with this ministry and how many people have chosen to support me for that month. Each month will need 5 people supporting to make it work well. https://sites.google.com/site/hudsontaylorwells/

Walks With Christ

During my junior year of High School I was working at a restaurant in the town over and every night, on my drive home, I would stop by the lake right down the road. I would park, walk out to the water, sit down, and I would talk with God. The first night I spent the majority of my time talking, saying anything that was on my mind or heart no matter how ridiculous. This lasted for a couple days, but as this became more of a regular thing I started having fewer things to pray about. My mind and heart was being emptied daily before God and by the second week I was spending most of my time listening and resting in God. The visits became longer and I would race out of work just to be able to go sit and pray and listen. It was during this time that God radically transformed my relationship with him. Although many people and groups have had huge impacts on my life as a Christian I cannot compare one of them to 7 months with just Jesus. It was there that ideas were formed, that I was convicted and forgiven, where I was given energy beyond my own strength. It was during the spring I stopped, mainly because of the rain, but my relationship with God just continued to grow.

After my senior year of high school I joined Coastland Consultants, a ministry that cannot be compared to. During my time with them I had to learn to enhance my walk with God daily. I would have some pretty rough days. One night, as I was lying down on the couch of a host family, I felt God tell me he wanted to go on a walk with me, so I got up and started to walk outside. It had been about 5 minutes outside when it started to rain. This did not stop me from walking. I continued to walk around praying and asking God to speak to me. I sang songs and prayed against stuff, and then God led me to the swings. I sat down and feeling foolish looked down to the ground. I felt stupid, outside walking in the middle of the night, in the rain, but as I looked down I noticed I was wearing a specific shirt. The shirt said "My People Know Me" and God spoke to me through that saying that, even though it seems foolish, that is my God. Again on another night I was unable to sleep so decided to walk a little bit outside. It was raining as I looked out the window and decided that I would still go. I put on my sandals and started walking, the entire way praying and asking God to speak to me. After walking 4 miles I realized that I could go back or continue to my sister’s house, which was only two towns over. I continued walking to my sister’s house. I made it there after about 2 and a half hour. When I got there I was soaking wet. I snuck in and my brother in law let me use some of his cloths and I went to bed. It was about 6 in the morning.

I am sharing this with you because when I look into my past I try to point out people who radically changed my life, some mentor who changed my entire world and I look and above any face I see is Jesus. He was my mentor and my father through it all. He has to be that to you to, or else you will be useless. So, find a time to go and just be with God for a while. Start now, it will change your forever.

My Testimony Part 1 (Birth - 8)

My Testimony Part 1

I was born on September 20^th in 1988 to Marnie and Rich Wells. On that day I became number 11 in a family that still had room for more. During those first few years I would have never guessed the road I was going to start walking on.

Some of my first memories were in my church. My family regularly attended the Baptist church on School Street in Salem NH. It was there that I met my first best friend, heard someone speaking in tongues for the first time, and was able to see a simple Christmas program draw in hundreds of people. I remember sitting on the far right side of the chapel, sitting on my dads lap singing church songs I wouldn’t understand till much later. In those years there were always the fond memories of me singing to the stars the famed Beach Boys song “Surfin USA” or me being put on a blanket while 10 older brothers and sisters would throw me into the air and pray to God they wouldn’t drop me. Life was treating me good. Church was great, I had an amazing friend, I was able to watch Barney while the rest of the family was getting home schooled downstairs.

Then it happened, I had no idea what had happened or what was really going on, none if it made any sense to me, but really couldn’t. I had grown up with everyone else figuring things out for me so when my dad left I didn’t really know what to think. There were times I thought it was cool that I was able to go stay in a hotel, eat junk food, and watch some funny movie with my dad and younger sister. What I didn’t see where the enemies attacks to my family and me. It was during these years I started to dream things that I would remember to this day. One dream I had went like this:

I was at a beach and it was dark out, and out of the sky came a HUGE kingdom. Seeing the kingdom come I ran to see what it was and where it landed. It had landed on this mountain and as I approached the kingdom I knew that it was Jesus coming to take me home with him, but I pleaded with him to let me go back and find more people to go with me. Jesus said he would wait, so I hurried down to the beach again to see something very strange. Millions of people were quickly going into the water because they were all very hot and in the water were HUGE ice bergs. I went to try and convince people to come with me but no one would come. I went back to the mountain to see if I could ask for them to wait again, Jesus said that he would wait for me again. At this time I went back to the beach to get people, but, like the first time, no one came. I repeated this process a couple times with no avail. Then I went one last time to the mountain and Jesus said it was time to go and I could try to get a couple more people to go but I needed to hurry. On the way to the beach I had to go through a dark tunnel with spider webs all through it and I got to the beach and was able to get a group to come back with me. We got to the mountain, went into the gates and I woke up.

I had no idea what these dreams meant, but I would have one every couple nights, some I still remember, some are very vague.

During this time of spiritual uncertainty, I was also being attacked from every side. I was getting sexually abused by some close people. I was having a hard time in school, as I was sent to Salem Christian School for my first grade year. That year we had several teachers. They were always coming and going and I never learned how to read and didn’t do that well with making friends either.

After that first year in school my mom made the decision to pull me out so that she would be able to teach me to read. I started home schooling that next year.

Faith

So, we have established Ministry in general, waiting upon the Lord, and the basic scriptural calling for all Christians. Now it is time to step out and do what he has called us to do.

The famous Hudson Taylor says:

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply."

Matt. 6:25-33 is a HUGE promise the Jesus gives us. If we cannot put our faith and trust into these promises than we should not even step out. With out the trust in these things we will ultimately fail in everything we do. We will burn out, waste away, see little fruit, and then we will blame it on God. In James 1 it talks about asking for wisdom and that God gives to anyone who asks, it also says that we need to believe that he has answered it. In the same way we must be confident in Christ and the promises He gives us.

Hudson Taylor is a perfect example of this trust in Gods provision. He made it a point to hold back from ever asking for financial help knowing that if God is the God he says He is then he should not have to worry.

This is where i get torn apart. I will send out a support letter every once and a while and I have had to ask for help from others before. Is this ungodly? No, Paul himself asks for help and is thankful for help financially. (Phil 4)

Now, I am here having to decide if I should send out support letters, or if I should not make mention of it at all. What I discovered has helped me realize that both are correct ways. Here was my pattern of thinking:

• i should send out support letters so they can know i am doing ministry and can be aware of what i am doing and so that i can have a good idea just about how much i have to live on each month.
• when i need help i am going to ask for help because some people just like it when you come out and say it, and it is a HUGE humbling process
• i am not going to ask, i will wait for them to ask me and my response will always be God takes care of me

Now, during this time i went to a church service where the pastor spoke about money and finances and i thought it was interesting because the reason that he felt comfortable speaking on such a tough subject was because Jesus talked about money and things like that for a good portion of his time here on earth.

Now, after i heard this i thought to myself if Jesus talked about it so much, why do we need to constantly repeat what he says about giving and things like that, shouldn't the people i get donations from be hearing from God and be capable from hearing from God rather than feeling convicted? So it was here i realized that i would rather have people give to me or my ministry based on their heart to give. Even Paul urges the church to give because it is more beneficial to them because it is getting stored for them in their heavenly accounts (Phil. 4)

Then i realized that the church today just didn't know that it was more amazing for them to give and lose some money for a moment and to receive an everlasting inheritance than to hoard their treasures in barns where moths and rust can get to it.

So, for me i would rather receive from someone who hears God tell them to give, someone who gives with joy, someone who does it because of God NOT me. Is it wrong any other way? NO, not at all, Paul urges people to do it, but that was more for their sake. So, as we, penniless missionaries for Christ, go out we must trust that God will provide for us.. Even if it means Crows bring us our dinner ;-)..

Have faith in God for His provision. Psalm 50:10 says he has "The Cattle on a THOUSAND hills"

ALSO>> I just want to make clear that i do believe that informing people and asking is a GOOD thing, it is not against God at all. I don't want anyone thinking i am condemning you.. If you feel convicted that is another story haha.. Favorite simple thing i have learned > Condemnation is saying that you are something ie. "you are a thief and there is nothing you can do about it" Conviction is saying that you are better ie. "you shouldn't steal because you are better than that"

Believe it

The Isaiah 61 Lifestyle

In the Gospel of Luke we read about Jesus going into the Synagogue and reading from a passage in Isaiah. He reads Isaiah 61 and then declares that what he had just read was being fulfilled. As believers we must take on this same attitude and take up this life style. This is where Jesus was reading from.

Isaiah 61

The Year of the LORD's Favor

¹ The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,

² to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,

³ and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the LORD
for the display of his splendor.

⁴ They will rebuild the ancient ruins
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.

⁵ Aliens will shepherd your flocks;
foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.

⁶ And you will be called priests of the LORD,
you will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the wealth of nations,
and in their riches you will boast.

⁷ Instead of their shame
my people will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
they will rejoice in their inheritance;
and so they will inherit a double portion in their land,
and everlasting joy will be theirs.

⁸ "For I, the LORD, love justice;
I hate robbery and iniquity.
In my faithfulness I will reward them
and make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹ Their descendants will be known among the nations
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
that they are a people the LORD has blessed."

¹⁰ I delight greatly in the LORD;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

¹¹ For as the soil makes the sprout come up
and a garden causes seeds to grow,
so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise
spring up before all nations.

Before we go out and do any type of ministry or even call ourselves Christians we must take upon us this same calling and start living it out as Jesus.

Jesus was a living example of this chapter and we, being "Christ-Like" must have the same attitude. (Phil. 2:5)

Now, going out and just doing this stuff may seem like a great thing we can just go out and DO. Unfortunately works without Faith are dead (James 2:17) SO, i am presenting this passage to you not so that you can have a nice guideline on how to be a good Christian. This is just good information, if you want to step into the power that comes with being a christian you must have a real relationship with Christ. So, before anyone goes out and decides this is going to be their guidelines for their Christian walk you must STOP.. And spend some serious time alone with Jesus. Go on a personal retreat, go fast somewhere for a while and wait for God to come and fill you up.

It was only after the Spirit fell at Pentecost that the disciples where able to go out and see crazy things done, like 3000 new believers in a day, miracles and signs left and right, and demons scattering whenever one of them would walk by. You must also have a time of waiting. (Acts 2:41)

Jesus says that "²⁰Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.'If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also." (John 15:20)

In the same way Jesus, at the ripe old age of 12, was in the temple talking to the teachers there and asking questions knowing that it was there that he was suppose to be, but had to submit to his parents and wait.(Luke 2:41-51) In the same way we know about Jesus' 40 day fast in the wilderness before he went out and stepped into the fullness of the ministry that he was called into.(Luke 4:1-13) Jesus had an 18 year waiting period before he was even able to be baptized and prepared for his ministry and when he had been baptized he had to wait an intentional 40 days before he could even step out into the fullness of what was in store for Him.

So, we need a REAL encounter with Christ before we can step out and do the work of God on this earth. It may take a day, it may take 40, but you will be no where close to how effective you will be if you wait.

Here We Go!!!

Every Christian has been called to something greater, to something deeper, and something higher. We know that the Bible has called us to go out and build the Body of Christ, but is the Church preparing us to go out and "Make disciples of every nation?" (Matt. 28:19) I am still young, but it is evident to me that the majority of my generation, and the generation to come, have no real idea how or where or what they can do, let alone know what the Bible has already commissioned them to do.

So, here i am, almost, 21 year old on the path to find out where God wants me, so i can be shown how I can help Build the Church, and what my gifts are and where my gifts can be used to their full ability.

The most important and essential thing ANY christian must have is an INTENSE and INTIMATE relationship with Jesus.(http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G25&t=KJV) (Mark 12:30) That is #1 in the WHOLE Christian walk. You will get no where if you have neglected to hold and grow in a relationship with Christ. The early Believers didn't even call themselves Christians, they called themselves Believers.. It was the Non-Believers who noticed that these people had a love of Jesus and acted like Christ and because it was Evident to them they would call them Christians (Christ-Like).. (Acts 11:26) (1 Peter 2:17) (http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/chrisdef.htm)

Are we worthy to even be called Christians? To be noticed as ones who love or God? That is not for us to decide, our actions, words, attitudes MUST reflect that of Christ. (Phil. 2:5)