BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

She felt like a visitor. Like this wasn’t her home. Although she loved being at ORU, it didn’t feel like home either. Wouldn’t her heart sense home somewhere? “Lord,” she prayed, “where do I belong?” 'I want you to move to Branson, Missouri. Immerse yourself at Keith Moore’s church.' “Wait, what? You want me to be a worship leader dropout?” This made no sense. None whatsoever. Following the Leading “I’d watched plenty of my family say yes to God when the thing they were asked to do made no natural sense,” Jenny remembers. “In fact, I thought all Christians did that and was surprised to learn that they don’t. Still, God had never asked me to do something so illogical. “One thing that helped was that my grandparents, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, had sat us all down for a talk. They said, ‘We want to release you to follow whatever the Holy Spirit is leading you to do. We’re not making you be part of anything we’re doing. We want to empower you and BLESS you. You can always come to us and tell us what The LORD is putting on your heart. We’re going to support and celebrate it. Even if you go out on what you believe God is telling you to do and it completely fails, there’s no condemnation.’ “They taught us that when God speaks, we say yes. “With that in mind, I went to talk to my grandparents and told them what I was sensing from the Lord,” Jenny recalled. “They completely supported me with their prayers. I sort of wanted them to support me financially, but that’s another thing about my grandparents. They love to give but will only give at the direction of the Lord. They want us to learn to live by faith in God, not them. “I talked to my parents and to my uncle George Pearsons. He said, ‘When I’m trying to follow the leading of the Lord, I watch to see which decision has sunshine on it.’ I loved that. “When anyone asked my grandpa where to go to Bible school, he always told them to move to Branson and be in Brother Keith’s church and feed on everything there, because it was the best Bible school. So I dropped out of college and moved to Branson. I listened to all of his messages. He talked a lot about servanthood and being led by the Spirit. I was receiving so much and it was really building my faith. I’d been there about nine months when I flew to the Washington, D.C. Victory Campaign. I was still on the plane when the Lord dropped a word in my heart that felt like bricks. He said, 'Move back to Texas.'” Move back to Texas? She wasn’t ready to leave…unless it meant that it was time for her to preach the gospel! A Different Kind of Call Jenny had been 5 when her mother attended JSMI School of World Evangelism, Jerry Savelle’s Bible school in Crowley, Texas. On soul-winning night, the students knocked on people’s doors and told them about Jesus. Jenny had noticed that the man who lived across the street was grumpy. He needed Jesus. “Mom, I want to tell that man about Jesus,” Jenny had said. After receiving permission, Jenny gathered her supplies and made him a salvation tract out of yellow, black, red and white paper. For white, she used toilet paper. With the project done, she walked across the street and told the man about Jesus. She’s going to be so disappointed, Kellie thought, while watching from the window. The man wasn’t paying any attention to the child, but Jenny came home thrilled. She knew she’d done what God had created her to do: Tell people about Jesus. Jenny was still on the flight when the Lord interrupted her plans to preach. His directions were, 'Serve and help your grandparents.' She hadn’t seen that coming. After moving back to Texas, Jenny called her grandparents and said, “I received a call from God to help you and to serve you.” 14 : BVOV

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