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Joan Jensen
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is Making a Difference Joan is one of 700 women attending our Women’s Bible studies. After class each week, she and her small group meet to discuss the lesson together. Joan shares her story here because of the life-changing impact her group has had and the support they have given her as she battles lung cancer.
“ Every week, I look forward to coming to class and connecting with my small group! It makes it easy to form special relationships and is like sitting down and having coffee with a best friend. We share our hearts through laughter and tears. “ Recently, our group decided to reach out to a woman who is battling cancer like I am, but who only has a short time to live. We discovered that she had a religious background, but wasn’t practicing her faith and didn’t want to hear anything about God. As a group, we decided to just show her the love of Jesus and pray that her heart would be softened. One day last week, a group of us stopped by her apartment and took some soup, ice cream and flowers. We told her she was an honorary member of our class. She was moved and allowed us to put our arms around her and pray for her, asking the Lord to open her heart and let Him in. “ My group is committed to applying what we are learning and we were truly blessed by this opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life as we simply shared our faith and Jesus’ love.” -Joan Jensen
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