Dearest Partner in Grace,

For God so loves the world…sacrificially, unconditionally, inseparably! 

And that changes everything!

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16

“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” – 1 John 4:9-10

“I am CONVINCED that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:37-39

Has God’s sacrificial, unconditional, inseparable love for you made any real changes in your life?

It’s meant to! God’s love is meant to radically change and influence everything about us as individuals and as the Body of Christ. God’s love is meant to radically change and influence our every thought, word, action and interaction – our every choice!

The radical change that God’s sacrificial, unconditional, inseparable love made in my life empowered me to make these choices (pp 180-181, Convinced!):

I choose life instead of death.

I choose love instead of hate.

I choose forgiveness instead of bitterness.

I choose mercy instead of vengeance.

I choose compassion instead of coldness.

I choose peace instead of panic.

I choose courage instead of fear.

I choose trust instead of doubt.

I choose strength instead of weakness.

I choose thankfulness instead of self-pity.

I choose humility instead of pride.

I choose vulnerable dependence on Jesus instead of self-protective, prideful independence.

I choose and celebrate God’s good, loving and freeing gift of sexuality for [marriage] instead of being held captive to a warped view of sexuality that would see it only as evil, ugly, selfish, manipulative and hurtful.

I choose freedom in Christ instead of bondage to anything or anyone else.

I choose to believe that nothing in all creation will be able to separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus my Lord!

No matter what!

This is how God’s love – God’s sacrificial, unconditional, inseparable love – radically changed me…and is still and will continually and necessarily change me every day of my life.

This is what God wants for every single one of us, every single day. It was God’s radically loving choice to give us Jesus. It brings God great joy and us great freedom as we choose to receive all that God gives! Because God so loves the world – sacrificially, unconditionally, inseparably! 

Giving Thanks For GOD’s LOVE for Everyone…Everywhere!

- May 19-31 – Sylane was in Jordan to encourage and minister with a dear friend who lives and works there. God opened fabulous opportunities for Sylane to speak to many ex-patriots, Jordanians and other Arab people who live in Jordan – telling the story of Jesus’ transforming love and grace and the power of His forgiveness that set her free; telling of Christ’s salvation and transformation power that are available to us ALL! Many of the opportunities in Jordan were formally planned; many of them were surprising and spontaneous!

- May 31-June 8 – Sylane was joined in England by her husband Tim (who had been in Israel while Sylane was in Jordan!) for two more ministry events and a few days of vacation together! Sylane shared the message: “Is Real Forgiveness Really Possible?” on:

June 2nd – at the Sunday morning worship service for Broadway Baptist Church in Chesham, Bucks – the home church of dear friends, Mandy (the music ministry leader for that service!) and Clive Dunstall, where Sylane had spoken before in 2005 and 2007.

June 7th – at a Friday evening special event held at St Mary’s Church in King’s Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire. This event was organized via a new dear friend, Lorna Selwood, whose ties with Compassion International connected their hearts.

As in Jordan, there were both planned and unplanned ministry opportunities in the UK…and ALL of them were beautifully and astoundingly orchestrated by our LORD!

At each of the events held in Jordan and the UK we saw people open themselves up to God’s Word and Spirit – open themselves up to God’s love, grace, truth, healing and freedom! We saw transformation happen! 

Please PRAY for GOD’s powerful work within individuals and within groups to continue deeply and in ever-growing circles as one person is transformed by God’s love, grace and truth…and shares this with another person…who shares this with another person…who shares this…

Join us in celebrating and thanking God for His deep love for every person…everywhere!    

Our Next Event to be lifting in PRAYER! 

- June 20th - this Thursday evening at 7pm Sylane will be speaking as an “ALSO” during the 3rd Plenary Session of the Transform MidAtlantic 2013 Biennial Leadership Conference, held June 19-21 at Grace Point Church, Newtown, PA. Being an “ALSO” means that Sylane has been given 20 minutes to speak before the Keynote Speaker for the evening.

Please PRAY that the powerful truth of GOD’s unfailing love and transforming grace will be unflinchingly spoken by Sylane and passionately embraced and lived out by all those who attend!
It is all about the Message from the Master, not about the minutes the messenger has! 

 Join us in Sharing God’s Love that Changes Everything!  

Become a Partner in Grace and YOU will help us bring God’s Love and Healing to others in very deep and tangible ways. YOUR financial support and your prayers make so many things possible!

- We have recently had a significant increase in the number of people seeking Counseling Services via TBG. Many are unable to pay all (some find it difficult to pay any) of their counseling fees. Your generous and regular contributions help to bring God’s healing Love, Word and Counsel to many hurting individuals and families!

- We continue to accept Conference Speaking invitations from wherever those invitations come – even if the organization is not able to meet the fee guidelines for the event and travel expenses. Your gifts help us to act as Christ’s ambassadors, sharing in His ministry of reconciliation and transformation to all who would have us speak!

- And in-oh!-so many more ways as we touch lives directly with the transforming grace of Jesus!

- We are fully dependent on God – via our Partners in Grace – to provide for the regular and necessary funds for TBG so that together we may offer God’s sacrificial, unconditional, inseparable love to many, many more people…in as many places as possible…for as long as God allows!

PLEASE become a Partner in Grace with us today!

Connect with Sylane via Facebook!     Order your copy of CONVINCED!

Our God is using CONVINCED! powerfully in many lives! Be part of the healing by sharing CONVINCED!

Remember to join us on the 10th day of each month as we passionately PRAY for God’s life-giving, life-freeing, transforming work to be done in the lives of all with whom we minister – at conferences, counseling sessions, on corners and in coffee shops!

With God’s love – His sacrificial, unconditional, inseparable love – that changes everything! – Sylane Mack - on behalf of the Board and Staff of Transformed by Grace

TRANSFORMED BY GRACE, Inc., P.O. Box 976, Newtown, PA 18940 www.transformedbygrace.org email: info@transformedbygrace.org 215.497.0882

Fight the Right Fight.
Wounded ones. Whether wounded from acts of terrorism, devastating illness, the death of a dear one or the unkind and cruel treatment by those who should have loved them well and sweetly – wounded ones are in our midst. And each of us knows woundedness in our own lives on some intimate level…in some very personal way.
Wounded ones are in pain. In shock. In anger. In denial. In confusion. In desperation. In fear. And each precious one is in deep need of love, compassion, healing and hope – care and calm, safety and sanctuary.
We do not have answers for the “Why?” for much – or many – of the wounds that we and others suffer.
However, I have found that in acknowledging that: “This is a broken world” – I am a little more free from the tyranny of expecting a life without wounds on this side of Heaven.
I, by God’s grace alone, have learned to fight the right fight: I stop fighting the impossible battle against the truth of this world’s brokenness, and instead choose to fight ever more passionately to bring love, compassion, healing and hope – care and calm, safety and sanctuary wherever I can…whenever I can…to whomever I can.
And I open myself to receive all of this from my fellow wounded ones as they – in fighting the right fight – offer these same gifts of beauty and kindness to me.
We who are believers in Jesus know that in spite of our wounds – we are still…
“more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” And, as the Apostle Paul continued…(and I KNOW you have heard this from me before!)…
“I am CONVINCED that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:37-39
May the unfailing love of Christ hold us in His perfect love, compassion, healing and hope – care and calm, safety and sanctuary…and may “Christ’s love compel us” (2 Corinthians 5:14) to be vessels of God’s love to others in deep and tangible ways. Right in the midst of this broken world. May we each choose to fight the right fight!

Giving Thanks For GOD’s LOVE in the Midst of Brokenness!  
- March 2 – Sylane and Cathy Buser, a faithful and fabulous TBG Team Member, ministered at the Women’s Conference for Cornerstone EV Free Church of Easton, PA. Sylane presented “Is Real Forgiveness Really Possible?” in three sessions during this beautiful day set apart for these precious women. We were absolutely blown away by the response of those who attended – and that many more attended than had been expected! Our God, His Love and His Word spoke deeply, encouragingly and challengingly to all of us – for His glory and the saving and transforming of many lives!

- March 8 – TBG celebrated our 10th Anniversary! We are so thankful for all the many ways God has led us, the lives God has allowed us to touch and the way God has used our Partners in Grace to faithfully support the mission to which we have been called! We are first and foremost to be Christ’s ambassadors who proclaim and live out the truth of God’s Conquering, Unfailing Love – both within our local Counseling Ministry and wherever GOD chooses to open doors for our Conference Speaking Ministry!

- April 15 and 16 – Sylane ministered (again!) at Mathom House, the prison/rehabilitation facility for adolescent sexual perpetuators. During two Marathon Therapy Sessions Sylane shared her testimony of abuse with these young men who have so horribly abused others. Yet, that is not where she ended her story…nor does it need to be the end of the story for these young men! These young men – wounded ones themselves – were told the truth about how horrendously ugly, evil, cruel, selfish and destructive their actions were towards each of those precious people whom they victimized. AND they were told of the grace of Jesus that offers them forgiveness, healing, renewal and the power to choose to live their lives held by God rather than held by their lusts or their wounds. PRAY that each of these young men will allow God to break the cycle of abuse in their lives so that they never victimize another person…and PRAY that they will be set free from the sins of their pasts so that they may live transformed lives that reflect God’s healing – within themselves and in every future relationship they have.

The young men with whom I have spoken at Mathom House over these past ten years often ask me why would I come to speak to them – knowing what they’ve done…knowing what I have suffered. My answer: Christ’s love compels me. I know and, yes, I am convinced that Jesus did not have to shed even one more drop of blood to forgive them than He did for me. We each are just as needy for God’s love, forgiveness and renewal in our lives. I am just as desperate for Jesus, His Salvation, His Transformation and His Promise of Eternal Life as are they.

Our Next Events to be lifting in PRAYER!  
- May 19-31 – Sylane will be in Jordan with a dear friend. We won’t be sharing too many details via public internet venues. However, we are asking you to be in prayer for God to allow Sylane to be a vessel of His love, hope and peace to all with whom she interacts.
If you would like to have more information about Sylane’s trip to Jordan, please email DeAnne Harland – our Administrative Angel – at: Info@transformedbygrace.org
Also, we are asking for at least 12 people to commit to praying daily for Sylane’s time in Jordan. Again, please contact DeAnne if God is moving you to this particular act of love.

- May 31-June 8 – Sylane will go from Jordan to the UK! Why Not? It’s on the way!

• May 31-June 3 – At least three events (and there may be more!) in the Chesham, Bucks area are being put together with the help of our dear friends Mandy Watsham and Clive Dunstall.  
• June 7 – another event has been organized because a precious woman and new friend, Lorna Selwood, from Winchester, Hampshire reached out to Sylane after she watched (via http://blog.compassion.com/what-is-forgiveness/) Sylane’s February 20, 2013 talk at Compassion International Headquarters’ Chapel and read “Convinced!”

How great is our God to weave all of our lives together for His good purposes so that His love, hope, healing, freedom, salvation and transformation may be made known to many others!

Keep those PRAYERS coming for ALL that we do as ambassadors of our Lord Jesus Christ!

 Join us in Fighting the Right Fight – Being God’s Love – in the Midst of Brokenness! 
Become a Partner in Grace and YOU will help us bring God’s Love and Healing to others in very deep and tangible ways. YOUR financial support and your prayers make so many things possible:

• We can continue to offer solidly professional and Biblical Counseling to those who are wounded – many of whom cannot pay for our services. Yet, as a ministry we are committed to paying our TBG Adjunct Counselors for their professional care-giving, wise and godly counsel and sacrifice of time that they make for each child, youth, man, woman, couple and family with whom they meet.
• We can continue to accept Conference Speaking invitations from wherever those invitations come – even if the organization is not able to pay (or pay fully) for the event and the travel expenses. We are first and foremost committed to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ and the healing and transformation that He offers. With that as our first commitment, we are fully dependent on God – via our Partners in Grace – to provide for the sustainability of this ministry so that we may continue to bear much fruit!
• We can continue to provide Bibles for the young men at Mathom House (and others) as we have committed to doing for anyone who asks.
• And in – oh! – so many more ways as we touch lives directly with the transforming grace of Jesus Christ!

PLEASE become a Partner in Grace with us today!

Connect with Sylane via Facebook! AND order your copy of CONVINCED!
Our God is using CONVINCED! powerfully in many lives! Be part of the healing by sharing CONVINCED!
Remember to join us on the 10th day of each month as we passionately PRAY for God’s life-giving, life-freeing, transforming work to be done in the lives of all with whom we minister – at conferences, counseling sessions, on corners and in coffee shops!
All for God’s glory and with the passionate call to be vessels of God’s love in the midst of brokenness!
You are lifted in love and prayer – the Board and Staff of Transformed by Grace!
Sylane Mack

God has done great things, God is doing great things and God will continue to do great things! Everything will be made beautiful in its time! Yet, on this side of Heaven there is so much ugly in this world. So much hurt, anguish, sickness, suffering, abuse, desolation, poverty. So much Brokenness and Sin. But! That is NOT where God leaves us. He has Beauty in mind! Freedom, Healing and Wholeness…and unfathomable Beauty for all of us!

God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what He has done [is doing and will do] from the beginning to the end! – Ecclesiastes 3:11

Giving Thanks For How GOD Makes Everything Beautiful in Its Time!
- February 19-24 – Sylane was in Colorado Springs and Denver, ministering in many ways with many people!
Feb 20 – At Compassion International Headquarters in Colorado Springs for a day of ministry. Sylane spoke at CI’s Chapel Service – sharing her testimony through her talk entitled, “No Matter What! Love Conquers All!” Between 550 and 600 people attended. Her talk was also live-streamed to 28 different Compassion ministry venues around the world. May God be glorified! You can watch the Chapel service on the Compassion Blog for 2/24 at: http://blog.compassion.com/what-is-forgiveness/

After Chapel Sylane met with many to listen/talk/counsel/pray with those who sought this more intimate time.
Lunch was spent enjoying fellowship, encouraging and sharing ideas with Compassion’s Staff Care Team.
Jill (Ridder) DeRaad, a dear younger friend and Compassion employee, served as Sylane’s partner at CI.

Feb 21 and 22 – Sylane spoke both days LIVE on the radio show “Broken and Beautiful with the REAL Traci Rock” on KLTT 670AM. Amazing time of deep ministry and a powerful connection with Traci, Carrie and Cydnie at the studio! All praise be to our God who does make all things beautiful!
You can listen to podcasts of these two shows at: http://www.brokenandbeautiful.net/ These amazing people actually put a special tab for “Sylane Mack” on their website, sharing information about the ministry of Transformed by Grace and “Convinced!” All for the glory of God and for Christ’s beautiful transforming grace to be made known in many, many more lives!

- Three other meetings with individuals, couples and groups of ministry leaders also took place over those days! God truly does make everything beautiful in its time…according to His time! And God uses the Body of Christ to display, reveal and pour out so much of His Awesome Beauty into this dark world!

Our Next Events to be lifting in PRAYER!
- March 2 (Yes! Tomorrow!) Sylane and Cathy Buser, a faithful and fabulous TBG Team Member, will minister at the Women’s Conference for Cornerstone EV Free Church of Easton, PA. Sylane will present “Is Real Forgiveness Really Possible?” in three sessions during this beautiful day set apart for these precious women.

- March 8 – TBG will be having a special event to give thanks to our God and to our Partners in Grace as we celebrate our 10th Anniversary! We are so thankful for all the many ways God has led us, the lives God has allowed us to touch and the way God has used our PinGs to faithfully support the mission to which we have been called! We are first and foremost to be Christ’s ambassadors who proclaim and live out the truth of God’s Conquering, Beautiful Love – both within our local Counseling Ministry and wherever GOD chooses to open doors for our Conference Speaking Ministry!

Please PRAY for God’s Conquering, Beautiful Love to transform every life present at every event and in every counseling appointment!

Please join us in PRAYING                                                                                                – for Convinced! (Sylane’s autobiography) to get into the hands, heads, hearts and lives of many, many people so they may know the incredible, transforming grace of our God and the power of His forgiveness and love!
- for our Counseling Ministry to passionately and wisely offer the love, hope, healing, grace and truth of our Lord Jesus Christ to all those with whom we meet – individual men and women, couples, families, children and youth!
- for our Conference Speaking Ministry to have many more opportunities to bring the message of Christ’s love and transforming grace to many more groups of people locally, nationally and internationally! Please help to open the doors for this to happen by encouraging others you know to book TBG for a retreat, conference or outreach!
- for our  Partners in Grace that God would bless our current PinGs for whom we are so very grateful!
Pray, too, that God would increase and encourage more people to become our Partners in Grace - praying for us and financially supporting us so that we may grow in our ability to reach many others with the message of Christ’s transforming grace with which God has entrusted us!

PLEASE become a Partner in Grace with us today!

Connect with Sylane via Facebook!    AND order your copy of CONVINCED!

Remember to join us on the 10th day of each month as we passionately PRAY for God’s life-giving, life-freeing, transforming work to be done in the lives of all with whom we minister – at conferences, counseling sessions, on corners and in coffee shops!

All for God’s glory and with the passionate desire to be vessels of God’s Conquering, Beautiful Love!
You are lifted in love and prayer – the Board and Staff of Transformed by Grace!
Sylane Mack