OneThing Internship Ihop AC

Hello everyone!
I am thrilled to keep everyone updated on our lives here in North Carolina.
First of all, I want to say that we love all of you at OneCC! Hopefully this will help us keep in touch with you as we share what the Lord is teaching us here. For everyone else, I am excited to begin unfolding to you the mystery of the Father in our lives.

We have stepped into a consecraction, a fast, a difficult time, and yet a joyful time. Jordan, Iain, John, and I are beginning a journey that we do not even comprehend yet. I have already felt the weight of the wilderness which is so common when one sits before the Lord with nothing to do, but to realize their own lowliness and God’s Holiness.

Hosea 2:14,15 “Therefore, I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. And therefore, I will give her vineyards and make the valley of Achor a door of hope.”

The wilderness is a place of spiritual poverty where we look at Jesus, and in doing so, we are struck with the reality that in our most desolate times of waiting and wrestling in the prayer room, it is there that we find the most important thing–the One Thing.

The valley of Achor is named after a man, Achan, who took some of the things from the plunder that God commanded him not to after the army of Israel took Jericho under seige. So God made Israel stone him and his family in a valley, afterwhich God turned from His anger. (Joshua 7:26)

So God calls the Valley of Achor a “door of hope”. It is where He burns us and strips us of ourselves to make us something that is satisfying to Him. It is hope. It is beautiful. Yet it is one of the most difficult things to go through.

So here we are…in Burlington North Carolina at Ihop AC! We are throwing ourselves into the mercy of the Lord, spending almost 8 hours a day or more in His presence praying, worshiping, and sitting at His feet. We are learning how to minister to the Lord first and then go and minister to others.

Jordan, Iain, John, and Jesse are living in appartments provided by the internship. They are beginning a children’s ministry there at the appartments and will be doing some after school childcare, and getting to know the parents so they can show Jesus to the families. The boys are very excited.

I am living with Nanette and will continue to work about 30 hours a week for godtube as well as spend 20 hours a week in the prayer room. I am helping out with the kids at the appartments whenever I can and will be leading worship for some of the sessions in the prayer room. My friends Amanda and Allyson are encouraging me already since they both have gone through the internship. Amanda has a her own website called “crying out day and night” She is focusing on a passion toward praying to end abortion. You can check it out at: www.amandaslade.worpress.com

If you would like to help fund the prayer movement through any of us, you may write tax deductbable checks to Ihop AC. The address for the prayer room here is
Ihop AC P.O. Box 3113
Burlington, NC 27215
Gifts that you wish to send to us personally (Jordan Vandebagart, Iain Pilch, John Guetterman, or Gracey Cornelius) may be sent to
1061 Oak Blossom Way
Whitsett, NC 27377

I love all of you and look forward to hearing from you soon.

In Him,
Gracey