My Story
My story starts six years ago, when my fourteen year old daughter was encouraged to go on a mission trip to Honduras with our church. We entrusted her to friends we knew on the team and off she went for a week over Spring Break. She returned transformed. Her stories about the beautiful people of Honduras, the need to share Christ with people who were working so hard with so little, the wonderful hands and feet of our missionary there, Teresa Devlin and the potential of the orphanage we were laying a foundation for, started to burn in my heart. Every year, she would tell me, "Mom, God needs you in Honduras. You speak the language and you teach. You are needed." LIfe always got in the way, until a few years ago. After a sermon at Gracepoint about surrender, I remember singing the song "Here I Am," and I lifted up my hands and said, "Lord, here I am-- my feet are Your feet, my hands are Your hands, my words are Your words. I surrender fully to Your plan and I will go where You send me." The next thing I knew, the longing to go to Honduras was burning in my heart. As soon as the March 2010 trip signup became available, I signed up and about four months later, boarded a plane to San Pedro Sula. We were then taken to the Caribbean city of La Ceiba, where we met Teresa, our missionary, and Randy Carranza, youth pastor at Iglesia Lirio de los Valles. The next week would be a whirlwind-- street ministering and leading a woman to exchange her life, traveling to a beautiful island to support a tiny one-room church, serving side by side with some of the most on-fire youth I've ever met. Just as my daughter had been, I was transformed by the opportunity to do God's work. Since then, God has also sent me to serve in Alabama after the horrific tornadoes that struck in April of 2010, and to train as a Yellow Hat Disaster Response Team member, and now, to come full circle and take my other daughter with me as I return to Honduras in March of 2012. MIssionScent was created to assist me in raising funds to do God's work in Honduras and elsewhere. Twenty percent of my commissions will be earmarked for mission or disaster relief work. I ask you to pray with me as I continue to ask God where He wants and needs me and pray for all the homes adorned with these Scentsy products. I thank you for your continued support and business. In Christ, Nena (Elena) Barnett, Gracepoint Church, San Antonio, Texas
