This years been a year of hard times and good times but none the less a year of Blessings. Trying to go home again has been harder than I thought. Home as in Brasil that is. I believe that God will get me there, but as much as I want to be there now, God has to bring me the resources into getting there.
Approximately a year and a half ago I left Brasil and it could have been the worst decision of my life. I walked out without turning back, lieing to myself and everyone else saying that I didn't regret my decision, I believed i made the right decision. Yeah right, and I thought everyone believed me. I was actually starting to believe myself, the more I told myself that lie, the more I began to cause myself to believe it. No matter what all that matters is what I'm doing for God and that wasn't for God.
A year and a half later I'm trying to get back to that place, back to Brasil, back to that place with God, back to where I used to be, where I was before I walked out of Brasil. It seems to be harder to get back to Brasil, then to originally go to Brasil. Trying to raised the money, and come up with the money to go back to Brasil has been extremely hard. But I'll get there, not in my timing though because if it were my timing I would already be with the team. Be with my family.
As I conclude this Blog, I ask that you would pray for me, pray that I would get back to Brasil and be able to raise the money for that. Pray for my walk with God to go to the next level. Because its getting there! I love God, I love people, I love the world, and I love Brasil,
By the grace of God John Pedro will live to see his 11th birthday, but not only that he will live to have a family. Unfortunately there is that big possibility that he will die. I volunteer at a house called the Refuge House during the week here in Brazil and this house is a home for kids who have the AIDS and HIV virus. Their parents either cant take care of them and cant afford medication or they were rescued from the streets of Brazil. We were inforned last week that John Pedro is no longer responding to the medication he was taking for the AID/HIV virus and that they have to find another medicine to keep him alive. There is only one other medication that they can try to see if it works, but if it doesnt then he will die. When I first found this out I was mad. John Pedro is the exact reason I came here, to give hope, and love through Christ. So God could give these kids and families a better future! I dont understand why kids have to go through hard times like this, why we/they have to be born with diseases. But I wasnt called here to understand or question Gods plans. In the midst of all of this God has His plans for John Pedro's life and He knows what He is going. Of course He knows what He is doing, He's all knowing and has all of the plans of His children in His pockets. So please please. Pray for John Pedro. Pray for a miracle. Nothing with happen outside of Gods plan! So please pray, Blessing to you and your Family. Jamie Lynn
This is a News Letter coming to you from Jamie Lynn Hills in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
I am in a discipleship program called Master Commission here in Brazil. Let me tell you, it’s amazing! It’s teaching me a lot. I am a first year in this program and I graduate my first year at the end of June and I am doing a second year as well.
Masters Commission is a discipleship program that is here to make God more real to us then ever before. It is here to help young men and women become more in love with God and to become better people. We don’t want to live just to merely exist anymore. We want to make a difference, and this is where we are making it. We are making the difference in our lives and being an influence to those around us.
Masters Commission has 3 main parts; discipleship, Mercy Ministries, and working with the local church. I already told you a little bit about the discipleship aspect, so I’ll tell you about Mercy Ministries. Mercy Ministries is where we have a partnership with JOCUM, Youth With A Mission. JOCUM houses x-street kids and bring current street kids off the streets. We live and work in the different houses. I live in the Recanto House where they house x-street girls and give them a family, someone to look up to and I work in the Refuge House. The Refuge House is a house for kids with the AIDS and HIV virus. Their parents either cant take care of them and cant afford their medication or they were rescued from the streets.
Being in Brazil is so amazing but so heart breaking. I had a chance to go out to the streets where streets kids hang out and sleep. It broke my heart to pieces. These kids, these boys and girls that I saw, the youngest one there was around 8-9 years old. All of those kids sniff paint thinner to get high just to take away the pain. To take away the pain of being hurt, of not having a family that cares, of not knowing any other option of taking the pain away. Seeing this made me realize the I would never be able to just have a 9-5 job and be satisfied. Knowing there are kids dying and hurting around the world.
In December I have the opportunity to go to Africa for 20 days. We leave December 1st and get back the 22nd. It’s going to be an amazing trip. A very intense trip. We will be going to two countries in Africa, Uganda and Sudan. We will be spending 10 days in both Uganda and Sudan!
In Uganda we will be working in 2 different orphanages and showing love to kids that don’t have love. I’ve always had a heart for adoption and I remember when ever I would see the commercials for “Feed The Children” in Africa I always used to be like: “I’m going there one of these days. I’m going to Africa to show the love to the unloved.”
In Sudan we will also be working in 1 orphan. We will also be working in Refugee camps in Africa. There is a big civil war going on in Africa so we will also be working with Child Soldiers. Yes, I said Child Soldiers. They have been recruited to fight and die in a war, a war made of man, not of God.
Now I have that opportunity, the opportunity to go to Africa and to show the love of Christ to the unloved. So you see with your help, I can help a dying nation. It’s not about me. God has taken me out of my comfort zone, out of my country and place me in a place where I can change lives. A place where I can make a difference. So with your help, I can take Christ’s love to the unloved. I can be used to change lives.
So if you would like to donate, email me and I will let you know how! Thank you for your prayers!
Being here in Brazil is amazing, I've learned a lot and am continuing to learn everyday. Can you beleive that: You can walk down the street and see kids, yes I said kids, sleeping on the streets because the streets are what they call "Home." That breaks my heart knowing that kids, in Brazil, and many other countries go without the love of a mother and father. It kills me that they don't have home cooked meals and the encouragement of family. Why is the streets called home for many children? I don't get it. I wish I could be like, "Vin ca" Come home with me. I'll give you love, I'll give you support, I'll give you everything you've ever needed and more. I'll be your mom, I'll be the one to tuck you in at night and give you a kiss good night. I'll be the one who will love you unconditionally. No matter what you do, I'll be there for you. But that's not possible for me right now. At barely 20 years old, I have realized that the love of Christ can heal anyone's heart. But the love of a family is what every orphan needs. A good family gives kids stability, love, encouragement, the track to God, a home to call their house, and a bed to sleep in. I have such a big heart for adoption that it literally kills me that I'm only 20 years old and cant become that mother for someone yet. Not yet. Right now I can give love, encouragement, and the love of Jesus. The one who has their future planned out, who will give them hope and comfort. Walking down the street of Brasil seeing any street person let alone a young kid makes me want to stop and think, "What are you doing for your world!" As I see people walking by these kids and not even looking at them, I see people just get farther from them like their scared of them or something. These kids have no love, no support. They bribe people for money and then go by glue and drugs. Why? Because they would rather feel numb then feel the way they feel living on the streets. How can we make it better for them? How can we change their perspective on life? So I am here in Brasil trying to give them love and a smile. To show them Jesus cares. Living in a world where the streets are called home, it's not easy, but totally worth it!
Being here in Brasil has made it more of a reality that I am in God's hands and He is preparing me for a destiny unknown to the human population, unknown to me. When someone tells me, "Well, the only reason they are saying this or doing that for me is because I know where I'm called, I know what God has for me." Do you think that makes me upset? Well no not really it just makes me wonder what God has for me. But who am I to question God? Who am I to question my creator. He knows the plans he has for me right? Jeremiah 29:11 states it: For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you to give you a hope and a future" That's from memory so it may not be word for word right, so sorry. But really I am in Gods hands, He carries me when I'm weak, He picks me up when I fall, He comforts me when I'm sad and because of Him I have joy. The Lord is my strength! The Lord is my joy! Although I am in the Lords hands, and so are you. I am also my Gods hands and feet. God never said, go out to all the world and condemn those who do wrong, no He said go out to all the world and preach the gospel. Being here in Masters Commission has made me a better person and has help me so much! So for my God I will go to all the world if He asked me too, I'd climb the tallast mountain and sim the longest ocean if He asked me too. This is where I am suppose to be at this point in my life, the look on those kids' faces. To see them smile, to see them interact and to see them responde to a devotion makes me know I am doing the right thing. No for me, but for my God! It brings joy to my heart to see those kids talk about how God has transformed their lives. Once street kid, now going to school and having a purpose, a hope, and even a dream.
Discover the meaning and outlook of the statement, "God is in Brasil." Although God is everyone I am so pleased to say that I see God on the faces and in the lives of the YWAM workers as well as the students I stand beside in Masters. Including me. We dont want to live to merely exist, we want to exist to live for Him.
Being here in Brasil is an amazing exsperience working and learning along side other young people who share a heart for the Gospel. The kids are awsome to. The first week I got here was just, go go go. Which was cool. I enjoyed every second of that week.
It took me so long to get here, but every second, every minute, every hour and every day I waited was worth what is infront of me now. What God placed in front of me. If it werent for that waiting period of 8 months I would have never been as close to God as I am now, nor would I have faith in Him like I do now.
Faith isnt just having a bunch of money and thanking God for that. It's about beleiving that God will provide even when you dont have money. Dont get me wrong, if you have money and your thanking God for that I'm not saying you dont have faith, But what is faith if one second you have faith when you are doing so well and can afford to put food on the table and then you realize you dont have money and cant afford much of anything anymore and you suddenly lose that faith?
God is so amazing and He is doing some amazing things here in Brasil and in our lives. As a first year in Masters Commission, my first year ends in June. I will be doing a second year with Masters. That will start in September. I will not be going home during the time between my first year and second year.
None of this is possible without God, because if it were then I'd have an Ego, (Edging God Out.) I ray for sponsorship and to be honest I have none. But God is a God of miracles and He will put people in my life to help me do His work. He's an awsome God. So if your reading this I ask you please pray and if you could, could you please sponsor me? You can donate quick and easy by clicking on the DONATE NOW icon right here on my page. Thank you for reading. And God Bless you and your family!
Tachau (Chow) (Bye) God Bless you, and your family. Jamie Lynn
Have you ever waited for something for so long in faith that God would and could make it happen? In faith did you wait and in faith did you receive? One of my favorite verses in the Bible is Mathew 7:7 Ask and you shall revieve, seek and you will find and knock and the door will be opened to you. That was the verse that I leaned on most while waiting for God to get us our Visas and that is still the verse I continue to lean on. I´ve been in Brasil for 1 week today and my birthday was yesturday! God has an amazing way of romance. He gave me an amazing gift for my 20th birthday and that gift was Brasil. People thought it wasnt going to happen and to be honest there were times I got so frusterated I just felt like throwing in the towel but God has other plans for me! Brasil has been amazing so far and its only been 1 week since I arrived! God is faithful and he is doing so much for us as a team and individually. To walk into the recanto house, the restoration house, or the refuge house and see a kid smiling it makes my heart fly and makes me realize even more that God is doing amzing things and I did something right by coming. Actually by comeing I´ve done many things right I have yet to see. I have to go for now! I´ll right more later. There is so much to tell I just wanted to let you know I was here and alive! Tchau *Chow* Jamie Lynn
My name is Jamie Lynn, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and a first year in Masters Commission Brasil. What I do isn't for me, it's to show the love of God and grow in His love. Being a disciple in this program I have no income, and that is where you come in. I need 350 dollars a month to do what I am doing, what I'm suppose to do. With your donation you will be helping street children all over Brasil, where they will hear and see the love of God shine. We will be ministering all over and helping kids and families know they DO matter!! I..We teach English to kids in the favelas, (the slums) and we work with teenagers and young kids so that they know they are loved and they can make it in this "worldly" society. They say that when your born in the favelas, you die in the favelas. We want and will break that curse. There are so many street children and a lot of them are hooked on drugs just to die out the pain and feel better about themselves. With being in Brasil we will break the curses of the devil. They are so many benefits that will come out of sponsoring me. 350 dollars a month can go so far. With every dollar you donate I can change someones life for Christ.
My name is Jamie Lynn and I'm a desciple of Jesus Christ. I'm 31 years old and trying to get back to where i'm suppose to be. Want to know me? Just email me at god4me1312007@yahoo.com
or jamielynn823@live.com
