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First off I would like to thank you for taking the time to read thisnewsletter. I have been attending Teen Mania’s Hon or Academy forgoing on 8 months and have enjoyed the growth and the maturitythat the Lord has developed in me so far. God is great for He hasset in me a passion for my fellow peers, this lost generation of teenagers in America who don’t know God person ally!

Family core: My family core is made up of a group of 7 menand 9 young ladies whom I hang out with. Out room leaders (or

C ore A dvisors as we like to call them) invest into us as mentors. They arethere wh en we need to talk and they lead the room. My CA’s name is TimMichiemo and in this newsletter I’d like to recognize him for what he’sdone. He has stayed up with me at night when my family was going throughtough times and I wanted someone’s shoulder to cry on. He called me outon my pride issues and holds me accountable with things like doinghomework and maintaining purity. He always challenges me with scripturewhenever I come to him with a problem, and if he doesn’t know the answer to my questions he takes time to help me find it. I don’t know if I couldhave found a more loving, caring, Godly man of the ripe age of 20 to watch

over my growth throughout this year. Thanks Tim

{Knowing God} ~ I’m going to start this newslette r witha recent encounter with God on the subject of Intimacy.

I have built a little garden out in the wooded area on the

West side of campus. It has become an area of sanctuary

where I can simply be in the stillness of God’s Beautiful

Creation and enjoy it. I go out with a few packets of seeds

(of which I have received from a few of you) and start with

the soil. In Texas the soil is hard, and I’ve discovered that

has been the same for my heart. I could give many

examples, but to sum it up over the past few months I have

let my heart grow cold. I refused to let God in, and He being

the most patient being I know waited until I was finally sick

of feeling lonely. I realized just how lonely I was when last

week I heard a sermon on life’s memories. It involved

thinking of your memories (good and bad) as stones in which

you were building an altar. Now I realized that I have been

concentrating on trying to hold onto the negative aspects of many of my memories, and I had decided to keep everything

to myself and I was determined to take charge of my life.

The problem, then God isn’t in the picture. I felt conviction

Feb.-Mar. 2011 [God is good, and He loves us even when wedon’t know where to turn for direction.]

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I thank God for watching over me every day. Seriously, with the car accidents I’ve been a

passenger in, and the time of depression I went through. It doesn’t make sense that I’m still

alive. So, God must have a plan for my life, and currently I’m listening so He can tell me.

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hit me and I knew that I needed to repent for my selfish

ways. For the end of the service there was a time to simply

lay down everything at God’s feet. I ran up to the front!

Since then life has become a joy once again, I’m no longer in

a cranky mood, and I haven’t been sick since that night. (I

have been sick too many times to count since early January.)

Praise be to God for giving me this freedom in my heart, I

have spent the last few days finding times to go and think

about God, to talk, shout, and listen. I have never felt so

alive! Thankfully the devil wasn’t able to force me to sink

down into the depression he once had me in. (when I was

younger by four or so years.) God lifted me out of my grief,

and has made it clear to me now that I need to seek Him out,

to get to Know Him, and that I can’t Know Him when I’m

trying to keep parts of me to myself. You can’t hide that

you’re only giving part of yourself to Him, He knows.

Ministry Placement:

While working in the Guard Booth I have been able to

practice humility. The Booth is not a job many people like;

you sit in a little Booth for almost the whole shift, sometimes

with someone else, most of the time alone. You are as far

away from where the bulk of the interns are as you can be.

But from this job comes a hidden jewel. The opportunity to

greet people, which I have now discovered I thoroughly

enjoy. So recently I spent an entire day saluting everyone,

the next day I was trying to shake their hands. It has been

lots of fun, and I’ve learned how to make it enjoyable.

God was pursuing me even when I was

trying so desperately to be in control of

everything. While in my garden I have

often thought of this as an expression of

how god has a Fatherly love for us. It

wasn’t until recently that I realized that I myself was holding out on my part of the

relationship.

Knowing God

Cont.

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Acquire the Fire: A 27 hour youth eventdesigned to impact a generation, to bring

teens into an encounter with Christ to mendtheir broken hearts.

Acquire The Fire (ATF) Volunteering

So I volunteered at the ATF in Dallas and wasn’t sure

what to expect. We drove to the event and on the way

one of the tires fell apart. We prayed over it and that

help would come swiftly and praise God it did. A tire

repair man came out shortly and we left after only hour

long wait. When we made it to the event we got our jobs

assigned to us, mine was to run a merch table (store). I

set myself into the job with high sprits and it was fun. I

sorted T-shirts, folded them and helped out the

customers. And as the day ended I had a great feeling

about Saturday. The next morning, after spending the

night in a nearby church, we went back to work. During

lunch I met up with some alumni from the Honor

Academy and mentioned how I was doing financially. I

don’t have a solid foundation yet when it comes to

proper budgeting practices. So we talked about the HA,

what I had seen in my experience so far, and what I

wanted to do with the rest of my year.

And afterwards I went back to my booth feeling great

for their encouraging words were “Don’t even speak of

being financially dismissed, that’s not going to happen!”

So after working for a short while, and accidently having

a conversation with Don, the lead singer of Fireflight

and her daughter (which I know now that you need to

check someons t ag to make sure they aren’t VIP’s) I

went back to work. I got moved from my stand to a

table for John Gray (a Christian Comedian) and watched

his DVD’s for him. It was at that table that I sat and

talked with those who would stop by and listen. Among

them there was a security guard, multiple groups of

young ladies, and a few families. Then Mr. Gray came.

He’s a funny guy, and I enjoyed working the rest of the

day with him. I shared with him parts of my testimony

and he loved it. The rest of the day went by quickly andthen it was time to take stuff down. As we were saying

goodbye Mr. Gray put something in my hand, he said

something like this: “thanks for working hard, and good

luck with the vision God has given you.” There in my

hand lay a hundred dollar bill. I broke down in tears. I

guess this was God’s way of saying that He is still

watching over me.

~ That money was donated to my account by me 4-6-2011

For more testimonies from ATF visit: http://www.atf24-7.com/

It’s become apparent to me that I have been tr ying to live in the past. God has forgiven

me of my sins and He is taking care of me, even when I’m not totally aware of it .

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Support! I am in a great need of support if Iam to continue my service at the

Honor Academy.Please consider donating to my

account by visitingwww.honoracademy.com click on

the donate button. My ID # is2585841.

Terra NovaOUTREACH!

I am a leader of a group called terra Novaand which is a mix of student council and abible study with a concentration on prayer,intercession, and outreach. We went toDallas and saw lives changed as we handedout lunches and preached the Gospel. Itwas amazing, and more amazing was thefact that we as teenagers put it together.God called us to share to preach themessage of Jesus Christ, the Gospel so wethought we might as well.

{LTE’s } I was dressed as a tribesman and Iwas dancing around shouting“WorshipaToraeha!” who was our fake god.This was my grand part of the UnreachedPeoples Groups LTE, obviously I was one of those unreached. Half of the internship was

split off as missionaries, and the other half weretribes such as the Mru, and other small tribesaround the world. As tribes created our ownlanguage, and prepared tribal customs accordingto research. Then we spent the weekend out inthe country of “Bach Forte” (back forty acres of the property). It was a wonderful weekend andout of it I learned patience, and my eyes wereopened to just how ignorant we are of nativestraditions. And how devastating it is whenmissionaries fight in front of the tribes. Whenever you argue in front of someone and thencome and start talking about God’s love it

makes it hard for your audience to believe you.Sadly none of my tribe members converted…too many of our missionaries argued with us.But, the experienced did give me a chance touse my knives… which I’ve been waiting touse... haha. It was nice to be out of the officefor a time. After all the chanting, dancing, tribalcrafts, and frustration with our language, wefinally packed up and headed back to our dorms. It was a great experience in which Godwas able to open my eyes to the Americanarrogance some of us seem to have.

This is me in a photo shoot for the upand coming Extreme race where we’re

going to have hopefully up to a thousandmembers of the community come and

race on our campus.

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A BIG THANK YOU!Thank you to all of you who have been praying for me, and have not forgotten my mission

here. “… to provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and take his life

giving message to the ends of the Earth.” I treasure your prayers, and the support and pray

that God writes your deeds in his book so that they will never be forgotten. [Matthew 10:42]

For packages please send to:Reuben Solomon Hanson

22392 FM 16Garden Valley, TX 75771

To Contact either call my Cell # (218)-533-0197 Email me: reubenhanson2809@gmail.com

Or Visit “Solomon’s HA Experience” on f acebook

Reuben Solomon HansonPO box 2010 CPO # 205Garden Valle , TX 75771

Some of my favorite quotes currently:“ What one Man can do another can do”

Charles Morse "The only way to learn strong faith isto endure great trials." George Mueller