Word weaver. Paint slinger. Grace clinger. Sunset gazer. Pixel tamer. Dream wrangler. Michele Perry is a creative to the core. She writes to capture the lessons she is learning on this unpaved road into God's heart- and to keep learning.After almost 6 years in South Sudan {irissouthsudan.org/} establishing Iris Global's {Drs. Heidi and Rolland Baker} initial presence there, Michele has moved back to be based in her hometown of Jacksonville, FL where she continues to serve and support the field teams in South Sudan from the US. When she does get to visit, she enjoys spending her time with the children and people who have captured her heart. She now also travels widely with Iris Global speaking, ministering and helping to equip and encourage field leaders and teams where ever she is.There is nothing she loves more than to see the people around her succeed... wildly.She loves it so much she launched her own consulting firm to help the amazing leaders, creatives, artists and innovators she meets do just that. {Find out more about that adventure of on edgecreativeconsulting.com} As an executive coach and corporate creativity consultant, she loves to help her clients redefine possible everyday.Here in Northeast Florida, Michele is involved with establishing a missions base {Iris First Coast}, in the context of a growing number of us exploring what an outwardly-centered creative community with an Isaiah 61 mandate for His Presence and the poor might look like. {For more about that see Create 61, create61.com/},Michele dreams of a company of people who take walking lessons from Enoch being released to soar into the wildest dreams of God, embracing the audacity and the humility of heaven, walking in two realms at once and living out of overflow as loved sons and daughters of their heavenly Father.She also owns her own art studio (talkingwallsart.com/) and is working on her third book. She writes regularly from her personal journey at fromtheunpavedroad.com.