Reuben Solomon Hanson
Newsletter
Feb.-Mar. 2011
First off I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this
newsletter. I have been attending Teen Mania’s Honor Academy for
going on 8 months and have enjoyed the growth and the maturity
that the Lord has developed in me so far. God is great for He has
set in me a passion for my fellow peers, this lost generation of
teenagers in America who don’t know God personally!
Family core: My family core is made up of a group of 7 men
and 9 young ladies whom I hang out with. Out room leaders (or
I thank God for watching over me every day. Seriously, with the car accidents I’ve been a
passenger in, and the time of depression I went through. It doesn’t make sense that I’m still
alive. So, God must have a plan for my life, and currently I’m listening so He can tell me.
[God is good, and He loves us even when we
don’t know where to turn for direction.]
Core Advisors as we like to call them) invest into us as mentors. They are
there when we need to talk and they lead the room. My CA’s name is Tim
Michiemo and in this newsletter I’d like to recognize him for what he’s
done. He has stayed up with me at night when my family was going through
tough times and I wanted someone’s shoulder to cry on. He called me out
on my pride issues and holds me accountable with things like doing
homework and maintaining purity. He always challenges me with scripture
whenever I come to him with a problem, and if he doesn’t know the answer
to my questions he takes time to help me find it. I don’t know if I could
have found a more loving, caring, Godly man of the ripe age of 20 to watch
over my growth throughout this year. Thanks Tim
{Knowing God}~ I’m going to start this newsletter with
a recent encounter with God on the subject of Intimacy.
I have built a little garden out in the wooded area on the
West side of campus. It has become an area of sanctuary
where I can simply be in the stillness of God’s Beautiful
Creation and enjoy it. I go out with a few packets of seeds
(of which I have received from a few of you) and start with
the soil. In Texas the soil is hard, and I’ve discovered that
has been the same for my heart. I could give many
examples, but to sum it up over the past few months I have
let my heart grow cold. I refused to let God in, and He being
the most patient being I know waited until I was finally sick
of feeling lonely. I realized just how lonely I was when last
week I heard a sermon on life’s memories. It involved
thinking of your memories (good and bad) as stones in which
you were building an altar. Now I realized that I have been
concentrating on trying to hold onto the negative aspects of
many of my memories, and I had decided to keep everything
to myself and I was determined to take charge of my life.
The problem, then God isn’t in the picture. I felt conviction
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hit me and I knew that I needed to repent for my selfish
ways. For the end of the service there was a time to simply
lay down everything at God’s feet. I ran up to the front!
Since then life has become a joy once again, I’m no longer in
a cranky mood, and I haven’t been sick since that night. (I
have been sick too many times to count since early January.)
Praise be to God for giving me this freedom in my heart, I
have spent the last few days finding times to go and think
about God, to talk, shout, and listen. I have never felt so
alive! Thankfully the devil wasn’t able to force me to sink
down into the depression he once had me in. (when I was
younger by four or so years.) God lifted me out of my grief,
and has made it clear to me now that I need to seek Him out,
to get to Know Him, and that I can’t Know Him when I’m
trying to keep parts of me to myself. You can’t hide that
you’re only giving part of yourself to Him, He knows.
Ministry Placement:
God was pursuing me even when I was
While working in the Guard Booth I have been able to
trying so desperately to be in control of
practice humility. The Booth is not a job many people like;
you sit in a little Booth for almost the whole shift, sometimes
everything. While in my garden I have
with someone else, most of the time alone. You are as far often thought of this as an expression of
away from where the bulk of the interns are as you can be. how god has a Fatherly love for us. It
But from this job comes a hidden jewel. The opportunity to
wasn’t until recently that I realized that I
greet people, which I have now discovered I thoroughly
myself was holding out on my part of the
enjoy. So recently I spent an entire day saluting everyone,
the next day I was trying to shake their hands. It has been
relationship.
lots of fun, and I’ve learned how to make it enjoyable.

Acquire The Fire (ATF) Volunteering
So I volunteered at the ATF in Dallas and wasn’t sure
what to expect. We drove to the event and on the way
one of the tires fell apart. We prayed over it and that
help would come swiftly and praise God it did. A tire
repair man came out shortly and we left after only hour
long wait. When we made it to the event we got our jobs
assigned to us, mine was to run a merch table (store). I
set myself into the job with high sprits and it was fun. I
sorted T-shirts, folded them and helped out the
customers. And as the day ended I had a great feeling
about Saturday. The next morning, after spending the
night in a nearby church, we went back to work. During
lunch I met up with some alumni from the Honor
Academy and mentioned how I was doing financially. I
don’t have a solid foundation yet when it comes to
proper budgeting practices. So we talked about the HA,
what I had seen in my experience so far, and what I
wanted to do with the rest of my year.
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his DVD’s for him. It was at that table that I sat and
talked with those who would stop by and listen. Among
them there was a security guard, multiple groups of
young ladies, and a few families. Then Mr. Gray came.
He’s a funny guy, and I enjoyed working the rest of the
day with him. I shared with him parts of my testimony
and he loved it. The rest of the day went by quickly and
then it was time to take stuff down. As we were saying
goodbye Mr. Gray put something in my hand, he said
something like this: “thanks for working hard, and good
luck with the vision God has given you.” There in my
hand lay a hundred dollar bill. I broke down in tears. I
guess this was God’s way of saying that He is still
watching over me.
~ That money was donated to my account by me 4-6-2011
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 Terra Nova
OUTREACH!
I am a leader of a group called terra Nova
and which is a mix of student council and a
bible study with a concentration on prayer,
intercession, and outreach. We went to
Dallas and saw lives changed as we handed
out lunches and preached the Gospel. It
was amazing, and more amazing was the
fact that we as teenagers put it together.
God called us to share to preach the
message of Jesus Christ, the Gospel so we
thought we might as well.
Support!
I am in a great need of support if I
am to continue my service at the
Honor Academy.
Please consider donating to my
account by visiting
www.honoracademy.com click on
the donate button. My ID # is
2585841.
This is me in a photo shoot for the up
and coming Extreme race where we’re
going to have hopefully up to a thousand
members of the community come and
{LTE’s} I was dressed as a tribesman and I
was dancing around shouting
“WorshipaToraeha!” who was our fake god.
This was my grand part of the Unreached
Peoples Groups LTE, obviously I was one of
those unreached. Half of the internship was
split off as missionaries, and the other half were
tribes such as the Mru, and other small tribes
around the world. As tribes created our own
language, and prepared tribal customs according
to research. Then we spent the weekend out in
the country of “Bach Forte” (back forty acres of
the property). It was a wonderful weekend and
out of it I learned patience, and my eyes were
opened to just how ignorant we are of natives
traditions. And how devastating it is when
missionaries fight in front of the tribes. When
ever you argue in front of someone and then
come and start talking about God’s love it
makes it hard for your audience to believe you.
Sadly none of my tribe members converted…
too many of our missionaries argued with us.
But, the experienced did give me a chance to
use my knives… which I’ve been waiting to
use... haha. It was nice to be out of the office
for a time. After all the chanting, dancing, tribal
crafts, and frustration with our language, we
finally packed up and headed back to our
dorms. It was a great experience in which God
was able to open my eyes to the American
arrogance some of us seem to have.
race on our campus.
 A BIG THANK YOU!
Thank you to all of you who have been praying for me, and have not forgotten my mission
here. “… to provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and take his life
giving message to the ends of the Earth.” I treasure your prayers, and the support and pray
that God writes your deeds in his book so that they will never be forgotten. [Matthew 10:42]

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