HENLEY, Gary & Sharrol – (NU 1961-1964)

Gary writes, "I came from rock ‘n roll radio disc jockey to faith in Christ in 1961, and immediately registered at Northwest College. At the time I entered school, I was already married to Sharrol, and we had an 18 month-old daughter, Line’. On Christmas day of that year, our son of four months was killed in an automobile accident in Bellevue. Three years later, the Lord gave us another daughter, Cheri’.

    The first three years I worked a 40 hour week in a factory and carried an average of 16 semester hours. I believe I was the first one given permission for that schedule by Dean Dan Pecota.
    I was in the class of 1965, but dropped out of school in December ’64 to work in inner city ministry in Chicago. During that year I had been working as intern pastor in Seattle. From 1965 to 1971, I worked at city evangelism, trained churches to do the same, and planted two churches on the west side of Chicago. In 1971, I moved to Irving, Texas, where I worked as a tent-maker in investment real-estate while planting a church. This church, like those in Chicago, had a format of small-groups or home-churches for the first 15 years. In 1987, we grew to 700+ people, and built a building. I left that church three years later to found a cross-cultural mission organization.
    Since 1991, I have served as the director of a mission group with teams in 17 countries. We held up the vision of the un-reached people groups, and we put teams in six Islamic countries as well as in China. In early 2007, I retired from the post of Director, and Sharrol and I moved to an Islamic Arab country. Here, I am involved in two primary projects. One is the development of a “Kingdom Business” with more than 40 employees. Our purpose is to demonstrate Kingdom values through the company, and to also have a legitimate base for a sizable team of committed believers to be in this limited-access country doing relational outreach. It is a viable, profit-making company with offices in two Arab countries. A percentage of the profits are dedicated to humanitarian projects. The other project is an Internet outreach staffed by Muslim-background believers. Our primary site was visited by nearly 300,000 Muslims last year.

Sharrol and I are deeply privileged to be living and working with such promising enterprises in the Arab world.

Until all have heard,
Gary & Sharrol Henley"

Email Gary & Sharrol at: eagleview@hushmail.com