Sid: Hello, Sid Roth here with Michele Perry,and Michele you were in India, you worked with the lepers, you loved working with the lepers, how could you love working with the leper? They smell, they don’t have any money, their skin is falling off their body, how could you love this?
Michele: Because Jesus loves them, and when I would look into their eyes I would see his eyes looking back at me and it is his heart, it is his heart.
Sid: Okay so you figured God has called you to India, you wanted to go to the worst place on the face of this earth, that was your prayer wasn’t it?
Michele: It sure was.
Sid: Okay, how did you find out he was really calling you to the Sudan?
Michele: Well I like to listen to him all day long because he knows a lot more about things than I do and it’s a good thing to do, and I was buying my plane ticket online to move back to India and I heard very clearly, “I am so happy beloved, I am so happy that you want to go to India, but can I send you to Sudan instead?” I said, “Sudan, that’s in Africa, that’s not India, that’s in Africa.” He said, “I know where Sudan is.” I’m glad he does, it’s where I live now.
Sid: Tell me a little bit about Sudan; are that a lot of orphans in Sudan?
Michele: Last count, there are over three million that are documented and it’s a very, very precious…
Sid: Three million?
Michele: Three million.
Sid: And you wanted to go to the worst place on earth, how bad is Sudan?
Michele: I was so excited, I had been praying for ten years, “God give me the worst place you can trust me with.” And in 2006 when I moved there I read an article right before I moved that it was ranked the number one worst failed state in the world, I felt like I got a promotion.
Sid: Now you don’t have orphans anymore, you have children, they were orphans, but they are children. How many children do you have right now?
Michele: At present one hundred and ten.
Sid: And what is your vision for these three million orphans in this country of yours?
Michele: We want to see a movement of love start, one life at a time, just know who they are in Jesus and know that we have a heavenly Father and they have a heavenly Father, so they are not orphans, they are beloved sons and daughters of destiny, of destiny and to see them know who they are in love and change the nation from the inside out.
Sid: Now you went there with very little money, by yourself.
Michele: I did.
Sid: I mean are you nuts, are you musuga?
Michele: I had a lot of people say you crazy white woman, what do you think you are doing? And I said well I think I am following Jesus and I am showing up.
Sid: Now with your children were there ever times when you didn’t have enough money to buy a meal and what did God do, give me one instance.
Michele: Absolutely, we had run out of food one time and I had actually gone to Uganda to get some more money from our bank account because we don’t have banks where we are at present, and so it’s an eight hour drive.
Sid: You are not even third world, you are tenth world.
Michele: Well it’s coming up but slowly, slowly as we say, and so we had a visitor that was with us at the time, one of my friends, and she was there with our children and we had all been praying, I was praying in Uganda, she was praying there, God we don’t have food, and just as, just as food ran out, they had eaten the last food in the house a truck that we did not solicit pulled into our compound and said we have been sent to give you food, are you Iris Ministries, are you Sudan Iris Ministries, Sudan here I come, here is food for you, so God provided.
Sid: And all y our children were praying for the food.
Michele: Oh they were praying, they were so excited, he could have heard them.
Sid: Tell me one of your children, tell me, paint me a picture of one of your children.
Michele: Susan, I found Susan at a meeting and she, her mom has been alcoholic, and she has a younger sister and they had been living on the streets and when I found her she was actually living in a bar and was washing dishes to earn her keep.
Sid: How old?
Michele: Ten years old, ten years old and she was the picture of mourning and suffering, and rags, just in rags and no life in her eyes, and now, we were able to bring her in to live with us, and now she is helping show love to some of our younger children and she knows who she is and she is learning how loved and precious she is to Jesus.
Sid: Tell me about the time you got on an airplane and Jesus walked in that airplane, tell me about that.
Michele: Well I was coming back from a meeting in Toronto, the only time I have ever been and I said God I want a visitation in Toronto, I want to see you in Toronto, and I had some amazing encounters but it wasn’t what my heart longed for, but on the airplane, on the airplane, not in the meeting, I saw Jesus walk in, he had jeans and a tee shirt.
Sid: Were you sure it was him when you saw him?
Michele: Oh absolutely.
Sid: Now did he look like a real person or was he transparent?
Michele: He was translucent, I knew he wasn’t there in physical, but I knew he was very there. And I had one seat that was empty next to me and he came and he sat in it and I just was overwhelmed in his presence and I looked in his eyes and ah, this is so good, and just enjoyed being in his presence.
Sid: Would you do me a favor, would you look in the camera and describe what his eyes looked like.
Michele: Oh his eyes are the most beautiful, beautiful things you will ever see, they are like mosaics that have every color all in one and they are filled with love, they are filled with love that sees every part of you and loves you completely, just amazing.
Sid: You think that is amazing, wait till you find out what Jesus did with her on that airplane, literally a hole developed in the top of the plane and I’m not going to give it away,