Dear Sister Gwen,
    We can’t thank you enough for sharing your life and all you have with us. On behalf of the Shekinah Christian Center youth group we send our love and sincerest thanks for all that you and our brothers and sister at Engeltal have done to make our experience there so fabulous. We love you and are praying for you that God will continue to strengthen and bless anything you put your hands and heart into.
    Personally, you’ve always touched my heart and life and I can’t thank you enough for that either. But what really blesses me is how much I see our youth group changed and empowered with passion for the work God has ahead for us. Nothing means more to me or will make me weep faster than seeing a young life deeply affected and changed by the moving of the Holy Spirit through your ministry.
    I know you’ve paid tremendous prices for what we see happening now. I pray that we, as a body, will not only bring honor especially to our Father, but also to the work you have established.
    We love you deeply, Mama. We also miss Papa and can’t wait to see him again someday.
    With God’s richest blessings we honor you for this New Year. Love in Christ forever, one of your sons, M.S.

Dear Sister Gwen
    How can we ever begin to thank you for Winter Camp (as well as in the summer). As adults, and youth camp leaders, we understand what a sacrifice it is to offer this camp for free.
    We have been bringing youth to this camp for at least six years, starting with two and now we average ten youth and at least three adults. Many times we bring at least one that doesn’t know the Lord, and several that have come from dysfunctional families. They always tell me that this is one of the few camps where they feel they are accepted for who they are.
    To be honest, being a teacher, my flesh doesn’t always want to sacrifice my Christmas vacation where I could be home alone and yet when I get to Engeltal, the joy of watching what God does in each life puts a joy and excitement that builds with each day! I am tired at the end of the camp, but thoroughly exhilarated by the Holy Spirit as I view all the miracles that take place.
    Two camps ago we brought a boy who had just lost his mother. Previous to that he had been placed in a foster home because his mother was too sick to take care of him. This boy had no sense of rhythm. The Lord hit him at the camp through banners. All of a sudden he was not only on the beat, but doing things with the banners that was totally amazing! Kathy Miller and I stood back amazed! Also he had a vision of his mother (who had died) dancing with Jesus! Many times during that first camp he broke down and wept. There was so much inner healing! Now two or three camps later we are amazed at what God is doing!
    So thank you, Sister Gwen! I haven’t even begun to tell you how this has affected my own son who now leads a hip-hop workshop at the camp!
    We all sat down at the hotel on the way back to Ohio to write and thank you!
    My son at 17, was the one who Papa Jim prayed over to become a Jr. End-Time Servant. That was special. The funny thing was the other one (from Illinois) is also a dancer. Two dancers that year—I’m sure there was some significance to that.
We love you!
A.S.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    I want to thank you for everything! No, seriously, thank you for having a place I can go and share my faith with others and express myself. Sister Gwen, thank you for the ETH Youth Camp this winter. I look forward to the years ahead and will always enjoy praising God with family and friends. It’s amazing how God and Holy Spirit move in that camp! The people we meet are really cool and their relationship with God is even cooler! I can’t begin to express the ways God has moved on merely one page alone. I will never forget everything that has happened and all the memories I have made there. The food is amazing and the people that work there are incredible. My friends and I already miss everyone and we are not even home yet! God has moved in us in so many ways and will continue to move. Your sermon that you taught was awesome and so totally right on! We must not let lust overtake our destinies that God has set for us. That really touches me since my friends and I deal with that a lot. We will never let it destroy us. Anyway, thank you also for the awesome hospitality. We love you and we look forward to seeing you in the summer.
God bless,
M.S.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    Thank you so much for letting me be a part of your wonderful meetings. ETH has always been an uplifting experience and I’ve been to the last six youth retreats. The main reason why I love ETH is it takes you away from all distractions of all the junk that we have at home and gives us a better environment to grow in God and have a great time hanging out with friends that we don’t get to see that much. I think it’s great that you have such a passion for us teenagers that you are willing to give this wonderful experience for practically nothing. And because of that I pray that you will be so blessed with all that you do. I learned so much about God at each gathering. God told me my passion for Him is growing and that it continually keeps becoming easier to talk to the Lord. I think ETH has the two best things ever which is God and fellowship of great friends. I love you so much and I pray you will have a great year.
God bless,
J.Y.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    Thank you for paying for me for camp. It was really fun. I loved going to it. I am sorry about your husband dying. I wish I had actually met him.
    I send my best blessings to you. I like to do banners. I like dancing. The camp taught me how to be a better Christian.
    I really enjoyed the music. I really love the camp so much because that’s where I first got saved.
    Thank you for having the Winter Camp and Summer Camp.
Sincerely,
A.J.H.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    Thank you for the hospitality and food and everything else you have given to this Youth Retreat as well as the organization you really inspired me to take my vows last year. Thank you.
    Hopefully this summer I will see you again. I don’t know what I would do without you. Also the vows we say really describe your life.
J.H.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    I want to thank you for accepting me as a son even though you don’t know me that well. I just want to tell you about the time I had at ETH this winter and thank you for letting us see our brothers and sisters from out of state.
    My most memorable moment was when you and Papa Jim told us about you met and how he loved to fly. Papa Jim would be very proud of you—and I know he has his wings!
J.C.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    Thank you so much for the youth retreat. I always have enjoyed being with the youth. I love their passion and their energy. Thank you so much for providing a place for them to have a retreat and pouring yourself into them.
    It was so good to be back at Engeltal and seeing everybody again. God bless you richly in 2008!
Love,
C.C.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    I just wanted to thank you for all you have done with putting all your time and love for having this camp. I was so in awe and love it so much when you have sermons and I learn so much from them that changed my life. I was really touched with the Vietnam story. I felt the power of God hit me as I saw the scenes before me of how the spiritual war looks like in those situations. I also ___acknowledge a book you wrote, Going Home. My dad passed away in September with a shocking heart attack, and my best friend was killed a week before we were to walk for graduation last May. I kept blaming God and when I realized God did it for a reason,, your book has been helping me see what God was doing for me. I have risen more increased and stronger. I am the administrator at my dad’s estate and I have learned life at its hardest. I felt lost and denied God and ran. I have God again. I can’t wait to be able to talk to you about the book for some questions I have to help me with my walk with God. I do ask if you can pray for me that I won’t stray from my path and fall again and that I will move on with my path for God in my ministry…
Thank you for all you have done.
J.D.

Dear Sister Gwen,
Thank you so much for allowing us to come to your home every summer and winter to praise the Lord. The Winter 2007 retreat was only my second time attending the camp, but I had a tremendous blast participating. You know, one of my favorite things about ETH is the fact that we are allowed to join in and participate on the worship team. I have a huge passion for singing, and so I look forward to praise and worship every day. I have a dream of being able to play the keyboard and leading my own worship team. But there are so many things I am confused about regarding my future. This is because of my passion for singing. Singing is what I would love to do with the rest of my life, but I also have another passion for forensic science, and would love to work on a CSI team. It is that passion that I have decided to go to college for next fall. Even so, there is always a voice, nagging in the back of my mind that what I really want is to sing and praise the Lord. Sister Gwen, would you please pray for me about this?
    When you gave your message about the “Queen of Heaven” who was above Jezebel, you said that you got saved when you were seventeen. I really related to you when you said that because I myself had just turned seventeen when I got saved. I became a born-again Christian on August 12th of this past year. I love God with all of my heart and truly believe I always will. Sister Gwen, it is these camps that make me feel this way.
    I look forward to camp this summer, and seeing you again before I go to college. Again, thank you so much for ETH every year. I really improve my relationship with God when I attend. Keep up your awesome work, Sister Gwen.
Sincerely,
S.L.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    Thank you for having us at your youth retreat especially this winter retreat. I am so glad I went to this retreat this winter because I got the courage to stand up in front of people and give words from my heart. I am also glad I went to this retreat this winter because I got the courage to stand up in front of people and give words from God and/or my heart. I am also glad that I can see all my friends at these youth meetings. One of the major reasons I am glad I went is the message you preached to us, because it helped me realize what problem I went through six months ago. Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Raven M.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    I wanted to share my miracle with you. I have had pain in my right shoulder and arm for over two years. Activities like scrubbing, vacuuming, knitting and anything involving lifting over my head increased the pain. At times the whole arm would throb like a toothache. I could not sleep on my right side and even when I slept on my left side, I had to have my right arm on a pillow so it would not ache. An MRI showed I had a 50% tear in one of the tendons in the shoulder and other degenerative changes.
    My brother had the same thing and had surgery a year ago. He told me a tear would never repair itself and I would have pain until I had surgery to repair it. I have had ultra-sound physical therapy and anti-inflammatory drugs that bothered my stomach. After talking once more with my doctor about this, he confirmed it would never repair itself, and maybe we should try therapy again.
    I began thinking that God had another plan. I felt He could repair it. I didn’t realize God was preparing me to receive my miracle! Saturday when you said “Today is the beginning of your miracle,” I claimed the healing of my shoulder. Then when we laid hands on our area in need of healing, I put my left hand on my right shoulder. I felt a burning sensation, but no pain. I began “testing” my arm and shoulder and have been testing it for days. I’ve put it inn every position that used to cause pain and have slept on my right side. I am 100% pain free!! Praise the Lord!! Not only is my shoulder healed but my faith has been increased to believe for other miracles in my life and family.
    I appreciate you and the End-Time Handmaidens and Servants ministry and am glad to be a part of it. Your forever in my prayers.
        S.H.

Dear Sister Gwen,
    [When I was in your convention] the greatest blessing I received was deliverance from a spirit of grief. Five years ago my darling grandson, who received Christ as a small by, was killed in a 4-wheeler accident. As much as everyone, especially God, tried to help me, I just couldn’t get rid of the darkness I felt.
    At the convention I kept telling God I wanted to be free of grief. While attending the baptism, the Holy Spirit seemed to say it would be washed away if I were baptized again. So with no thought of my good cloths or hair-do, I got in that line and received the most marvelous deliverance. Praise God! Thank God for His faithfulness, and thank God for His faithful servants. Now when I think of my grandson, I see him in the glory of God’s Presence and I can rejoice.
    Sincerely,
    J.J.

Dear Sister Gwen,
We received your magazine yesterday and I haven’t been able to put it down…I have a great burden for the church. Where are the praying women? I can’t get anyone around here to pray like we are talking about. When I was a girl, the women of God would pray like you said. We as young people would always go to the church an hour or more early and fall on the altar and pray 'til church started and we prayed with others in the altar 'til they got a breakthrough. I know God has called me to be a “mother in Israel.” I am looking into getting an old land mark hotel here and turning it into a “House of Prayer.” I have tried to get the Pentecostals to open their churches just for prayer during the week in the past, but they wouldn’t for long. You really stirred my spirit up. I want to do something here for God. Please pray with me to have favor to get the hotel if it’s the Lord’s will.
    This town has nearly dried up. They need the real Holy Ghost revival—I pray for you to be healed completely, speedily. God bless you.—J.M.

Dearest Sister Gwen,
    I was one of the new Handmaidens who said my vows in Winnipeg last summer. I wanted to write this letter to you to thank you and to let you know that much has changed for me since that moment. That night, visions increased dramatically and they have increased since. I have since seen angels and much more in the heavenlies. My prophetic and healing fits have increased as well.
    As a side note, I wanted you to know that the Lord had spoken to me about it all in advance. I knew that we were somehow connected on a very deep level. The first time I heard your voice on a recording, I was “hit by the Spirit” and I heard the Lord say, “IRON.” I saw the intersection of Agate Lake and Cordova Bay Road here in Victoria [British Columbia, Canada] and knew that I was to continue praying on the beaches of Cordova Bay. But also Psalm 2:8, “Ask of me and I will surly give you the nations as thine inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt shatter them like earthenware,” came to minds.
    ….I pray for you and for good health. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and I will do my very best to carry everything on as God directs me.—Love, GW

Dear Gwen Shaw:
    Thank you so much for sending me the Day by Day book. It has been wonderful, waking up every morning and having it to read! I fell in love with it the moment I picked it up. I could barely put it down! It has been a pleasure to receive God’s message through your literature. I absolutely love the book of Psalms and I didn’t know that Psalms was the book of the Bible that your book was based on. That made reading it even better. I was overwhelming myself with trying to read the book of Psalms as fast as I could, as often as I could,, and I wasn’t able to get as much out of it. Once I started reading your book, it put me at the pace I needed to be at. I get so much out of reading Psalms now. I wanted to thank you again for inspiring me to wake up and give all the praises to God every day—all day. I am still in jail and was wondering how I could purchase more of your books after I leave. Please send me information about where I can buy your books. Again, thank you so much for helping me. God has blessed you with an extravagant writing talent.—H.M.