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His Heart's Desire Ministries, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization founded in November 2006 by Steven and Kim Francis and Mareta Walker. This ministry is a missions' outreach of Community Worship Center in Perryton, Texas, where Steven, Kim, and Mareta make their home. Kim worked as a paraprofessional educator for 3 years and taught high school math in the Texas Public School System for 13 years before God called her to teach His Word. Steven is yard repair and maintenance manager for Wolf Creek Feedyard.
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Mareta is office manager for Bob Jay's in Perryton. She has 2 children, a son, Jessie Walker, who is currently working and living in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and a daughter, Krista Gray, who makes her home in Boise City, Oklahoma, with her husband, Travis, and their three girls, Taryn, 7, Audrey, 5, and Lynzee, 1, who are a delight and great source of joy to their "Gramma." |
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While facilitating the Bible study called Falling in Love with Jesus in the spring of 2005, Kim met Mareta. They discovered they were close neighbors, and soon developed a wonderful friendship walking and talking together. What they had most in common was a deep love for Jesus and a desire to see believing women everywhere experience His lavish love for them personally. One way to understand this love is to begin to see and know Jesus as their Spiritual Bridegroom. Together, Kim and Mareta fashioned the Your Bridegroom Awaits! retreats. The specific purpose of the retreats is to help women, high school age and up, understand their relationship to Christ as His lovely Bride. Kim and Mareta's desire is His Heart's Desire - to see women come to an understanding of who they are through the eyes of their eternal Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. As plans for the retreats were underway, Steven surprised Kim by saying, You need to make sure that you have these retreats on my weekends off so I'll be able to cook for you. So began the birth of "God's Grillers," a team of men with wonderful servant hearts who serve the women delicious food on the weekends. |
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The ministry is blessed with a gifted team of women who have hearts to serve and help make the retreat weekends possible. These ladies long to see other women experience the love of their Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. The Lovely Ladies who make up the team are: (back row left to right: Karen Hall, Lois Bartz, Danna Castor, Ruthie Dearing, Nancy Holland, and Betty Caddel. (front row left to right: Mareta Walker, Angie Graves, Angela Manross, and Kim Francis. Those on team not shown: Phyllis Bailey, Angela Buschman, Dawn Epp, Kathy Harper, Deborah McQuitty, Lisa Pipkin, and Betty Smith.
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John and Angie Graves have been a tremendous blessing to the ministry and have been instrumental in its establishment. They have believed in its purpose from the beginning and are a wonderful source of encouragement.
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