Perry LaHaie

"I love the story in the bible about the boy with five loaves of bread and two fish,"  Perry says.  "The boy gives Jesus the bread and fish and Jesus feeds over 5000 people with it.  Wow!  What strikes me is two things:  Jesus' miracle, and the fact that the boy gave everything he had.  I think the two go together.  I believe that if I give the little I have to Jesus, somehow He'll make much of it."

For Perry his five loaves and two fish are music, radio and podcasting.  He longs to make Jesus known close to home and to the farthest reaches of the planet.  "When the waves of Jesus' grace rolled over my life, He put in me a hunger to share this love not only with the people around me but also with people far away and very different from me.  I really believe there's grace for the world, not only for the few."

Perry is offering his little in hope that Jesus will make much of it.  "I'm trying my best to bring the unconditional love of Jesus to those who've never had a chance to experience it."

Perry works with Frontiers, whose mission is:  “With love and respect, inviting all Muslims peoples to follow Jesus.”  Frontiers USA.  Frontiers workers are in over 50 countries of the world inviting Muslims to follow Jesus.

"What I'm doing at Frontiers is calling God's people to pray for and go to the Muslim world with the good news. To join with God in what He's doing among our Muslim friends."  With radio and podcasting he creates and voices Cast Yourself In that tells stories of what Jesus is doing among Muslims. 

And, "As a singer,songwriter, worship leader, I'm writing songs that share God's huge heart for all people and how we who follow Jesus are invited to be part of what He's doing." 

If you are stirred to be a part of what God is doing in the Muslim world, find your role at Frontiers USA.

Perry was born and raised in the north woods of Michigan about 15 minutes from the Mackinac Bridge, a five-mile bridge spanning the Staights of Mackinac.  www.mackinacbridge.org.  The area is thick with native and early American history.  And that can still be experienced in a massive way at Mackinac Island where horse and buggy is the only way around!  www.mackinacisland.org.  

Perry says "growing up in northern Michigan worked into my DNA the culture of native Americans and the pioneering spirit of the first French and English explorers who came to northern Michigan.  I guess part of that love for other cultures and the adventurous spirit that God's put in my life comes from growing up in northern Michigan and has helped shape who I am today."

Perry took his first step of faith when he was 10:  "On the school playground in 5th grade I started following Jesus.  A sixth grader Lenny, who was a follower of Jesus said to me 'Perry I hope that one day you can be saved.'  And the first thing that sincerely came out of my mouth was 'I am a believer!'  In that moment the Spirit of Jesus let me know that I was one of his."

As a teenager, Perry's journey was struggle. The Romans 7:15 years:   "'For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.'  "I really didn't know how to follow Jesus everyday.  I hated sin and wanted to sin.  I struggled with secret sexual sins and I was a slave,"  Perry says.  

Perry's failures as a teen left him with “a lot of guilt and shame”'  In this place of brokenness came a defining moment:  

"I had severly sprained my ankle one evening playing basketball my senior year of high school.  My friends carried me home and laid me on the couch.  I asked my mom to pray and Jesus' presence filled the room.  He took away the pain in my ankle, but more than that he touched the pain in my heart.  It was the moment in my life that I knew that Jesus loved me unconditionally."

“And out of that experience I said to Jesus ‘If you  love me at my worst, then you’re the only One worthy of my llfe." I've been all in since then, but not all put together.  He's putting me back together and that won't lbe finished till I see him."