John Pedro, 10 years old with a disease that kills millions!

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

News Letter: By Jamie Lynn Hills (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

(Forward to everyone you know)

Dear Friends and Family,

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!

God Bless you and you Family!
~Jamie Lynn Hills~

Living in a world where the streets are called "Home"

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!

In The Hands Of God!

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.

God is in Brasil!

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

Touch down!

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

What are we coming to as a church? Excommunicating others?~~Brasil~~

Is this what we're coming to as a church? Abortion is in fact wrong and if I could change it I would. But as you read on in this article, the church is wrong as well! What is the world! We're suppose to be showing love and support, forgiveness and grace! Thats what Christ would do, and we're suppose to live as Christ. As it says in 1 John 1:6....

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

RECIFE, BRAZIL, March 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Archbishop of the Brazilian city of Recife has announced the excommunication of a doctor who performed an abortion on a nine year old girl, as well as the family members who made the decision to carry out the procedure.

The girl, whose name has not been revealed by the Brazilian media, was found to be pregnant with twins recently. Her stepfather has confessed that he began molesting her at the age of three and that he is the father of the child. He is under arrest pending an investigation of his relationship with his stepdaughter, as well as her 14 year old sister.

Although doctors at the hospital where the girl was initially admitted, Imip, reportedly said that her life was not in danger, her mother reportedly transferred her to another hospital, Cisam, that was willing to do the abortion, which is not penalized under Brazilian law because the girl was raped.

José Cardoso Sobrinho, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, confirmed that while the child would not be held accountable for the act, the doctor who carried out the abortion and anyone who assisted or gave their approval were excommunicated by the Church.

"To be subject to this penalty is it is necessary to be of age. The Church is very benevolent, especially with minors," the Archbishop told the media. "Now the adults, those who approved, who carried out this abortion, are excommunicated."

Sobrinho brushed aside the notion that the legality of the abortion under Brazilian law was a sufficient excuse for those involved.

"The law of God is above all human law," he said. "Therefore, when a human law, meaning a law promulgated by human legislators, is contrary to the law of God, this human law has no value."

Abortion, he said, is "homicide against innocent life. We are talking about a silent holocaust, that kills a one million innocents in Brazil and fifty million in the world every year, a holocaust worse than the six million Jews, which we lament every year."

The Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife was preparing to file a motion to prevent the abortion when news arrived that it had already been carried out.

The Archbishop's decision to announce the excommunication, which is automatic under the Church's law for those who participate in an abortion, was met with denunciations publicized by Brazil's media, which is dominated by liberal ideologues. Among those quoted was Brazil's pro-abortion health minister, Jose Gomes Temporao, who repeated the claim that the girl was at risk from the pregnancy.

Hungry For More?

Are you hungry for more? I sure am! Do you have a craving for something more then just getting by with friends? I do! My God is an awesome God and I am hungry for him! I am hungry to become the women my God, my daddy, my Savior wants me to be! I will lay my life down at the foot of the cross and pick up that cross and follow after Him.
During this time of 9 months of reflection He has become more real to me then ever before! He has made Himself known and seen in ways I will have a hard time describing! He has been so so faithful to us as a team and us individually as well.
I have got to say that Masters Commission has been so good for me, but as I say that, I have go to say this as well. Masters Commission isnt God, and it doesnt make God real. It's a choice to follow after God and its a choice to seek Him and worship Him. What Master Commission does do is it brings structure, stability, a place, to call home, brothers and sisters in Christ, Discipline, team building, growth and much more! But you can't grow unless you let yourself grow.
Here in Masters Commission I have brought my fair share and then some of strife and attitude, but you have to be approachable! You can't phone it in, you have to pursue, and seek Him full heatedly!
I'm hungry for more! I'm in a place right now where I not only want to change but need to change. Being challenged does wonders for me! I like to prove people wrong! They beleive I cant do it, I'll prove to them I can. They say I can't walk, I say they are wrong God is my feet. They say I'm too stupid, I'll prove to them I'm smarter then any 5th grader! Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
I'm hungry for more, to become more, to change my ways, my mind set, my mouth, my eyes, my heart, and everything else! I give them all to Him! Because I'm hugry for more!
Jamie Lynn
Tchau

God is good, He is my supply!

If you think about yourself what is one thing you want to hear from a friend or a family member? Oh, you cant think of one? Do you give up? I know for me what I long for and in fact sometimes still long to here in my hearts of hearts is that someone doesnt know what they'd do without me. And I can guarantee all the people in this world wanted to here that more then anything else and sometimes still do want to hear that. Is there a reacurance? Do you see the similarities? The similarities between you and God? Do you see them? We are made in His image and everything we have been tempted with, He has been twempted too. So if you just think about it, it makes since that we want to here that stated. Want to know why? Because God is our Father! Infact, God wants you, yes you! And me, yes me! To realize we cant do it our our own. He wants us to cry out to Him, not only in times of need, but in times of rejoice! He wants to hear us say that we dont know what we would do without Him. He want to hear us say we love Him. So arent there similarities? Yes there are! We have needing in our hearts for something more, for something great, and that something more and great is God! God wants you, God needs you! God loves you! God cares for you! God is our Father! God is my Bestfriend and yours too! God wants you to stop what your doing right now and tell Himw ant He means to you, He wants you to fall to your knees and tell Him you love Him. God wants you to accpt Him as your Father! Forget the lies of the enemy! And dont listen to the opinions of those who dont beleive in Him. Because those are also the lies of the enemy! So you see when your wanting someone else to fill the spot of God, like your boyfriend, or bestfriend, remember it will never be enough till you accept our Father!
Christ loves you,
Jamie Lynn

4 years ago today, and still feels like a yesturday!

Christmas of 2004, my whold family was together. Something that never hjappens, ever. Christmas 2004 I was 15 and at 15 years old my thoughts were why do I have to tell people how I feel about them, when they are going to be here in years to come to tell them that. Isnt that what alot of people think? That what they have to say to the person they care about can wait because they'll be here tommarow! RONG!! And no one could have understood the depth that Christmas would bring to our family come February 2005, only 2 months later. No one new that one of our own would take the life that God gave him and no one new that in two months it would be to late to tell the one we loved we loved him.


February 10th, 2005, 4 years ago today! Barly 20 years old, my cousin Brandon Carl Rizzo had a long lasting future ahead of him. Through his life he took a few wrong turns and one cost him his life. Feeling like it would be better if he werent alive any more, he put aside the pain and thoughts of family and now he doesnt hurt anymore. I hated him, for a long time, resented him infact. I hated him for putting his selfish needs before the happiness of his family. He could have never understood how much pain he would bring when he left this earch. Four years l;ater I now realize I was aa hypacrit for hating him for taking his life.

Although it has been fuor years since the death of my cousin it still hurts. My soul hurts, my heart atchs for those who beleive they would be a better asset dead, and my brain runs with unanswered questions. I used to wonder why it haoppened and I used to wish I would be taken ininstead of my cousin. Today was a hard day and I tried so hard today to have a smile on my face and not act like I was sad, like I was hurting. I'm better then that. I shouldnt be hurting 4 years later should I? I mean, he's gone, dead, vanished and never appearing again. Is it right for me to still hurt? I do still hurt, for many reasons, but I dont have him anymore. I also dont blame him for anything that has happened in my life or for the choices that I have made, because they have been my choices. But I do wish he could see me now, see the person I have become, not the mistakes I have made. I wish he were here to see that I will change the world, not for him, not for me, but for God!

Be Blessed!
I'm going to change the minds of many people who wish they were dead, just watch! Iy wont be me, it will be God in me! I pray that God will put those people in my life so He can work through me and tansform the hurting.

I DONT WANT TO GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE MY SOUL!

God is so good!

I DONT WANT TO GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE MY SOUL!

Yeah, that could sum up my whole blog right now! But I will pleasure you with the opportunity to read my mumbo jumb ! haha =]]

Being here in Masters Commission has definitely been a blessing and it's definitely been a bumpy ride, but I wouldn't trade it for the world! This season of life in the wilderness has taught me a lot! As we continue to Praise God for what He is doing in our lives as a team and individually, we continue to pray that this process will end so we can get to Brasil!

We continue to stay on guard against the enemy because he has nothing on us! We are the children of God and He is our Father! He could offer me the whole world and I wouldnt take it, I'd be selling my soul to the devil!

The devil tries to eat my family for breakfast, bringing discouragement, lack of love, depression, and much more. Being here in Masters Commission is where I am suppose to be and where I need to be, but at the same time its so hard to see my family going through financial difficulties.

My dad is a heavy eqiupment opporator and hasnt worked much since December and even before then he wasnt working a whole lot! This economic struggle our country is going through is hurting not only my family but others. My dad is so so use to being the one that loans out money to family and friends, but pretty soon it's going to be the other way around if he doesnt get to working more! If I were there I would try to help as much as possible! My brother who is 28, almost 29 lives at home but is crippled! He was in the Army and went to Iraq and while serving his country he hurt his knee pretty bad. He had to have sergery but the Army didnt allow him to have sergery until nearly 2 years after he got back from Iraq. So he just had sergery and he cant work until his knee is better. Which could be awhile.

So being here while my family is struggleing is really hard but then I remember that I am going to be helping people and laying my life down. It's not my own. God is good! We'll be to Brasil real soon!
Eu gusto voces! (I like you)
God Bless,
Jamie Lynn

Wilderness

Yesterday, January 7th 2008 I went to Wednesday night service and sat with the Pacheco's. Pastor Joshua and Nellie came as well but they sat it the back someone. (Apparently they thought they were to good for us! haha jk)
Pastor Sean Smith was a guest speaker at Harvest church and let me tell you that man has the anointing of God all over Him.
When we got to the church and sat down and it started his first statements were, "I want to talk to you guys about the wilderness, have any of you guys been in a wilderness experience?" And me and Bruce looked at each other and raised and hand were like, "well yes, yes we have" Then Bruce was like I hope Pastor Joshua is here. (Because we weren't positive if they were going to be there) He talked about Luke 9 he had the disciples feed the 5,000 even though they didn't understand how it was possible.
He told us not to waste our wilderness experience that God wants you to come out of each wilderness experience in a new dimension. There is a need right now for us to see beyond where we're at and once we do that we will see why God has put us here. This year there is a need to go passed the accepted to the unexpected. The holly Spirit has miracle for us when we go beyond where needed. Many of us dont see the miracles God has for us because we dont want to put ourselves in a place where a miracle is our only way out.009 is a year of miracles!!!!!! Yes it is!He gives us the authority to heal!
The spirit of God is going to move the word of God from our heads, to our hearts, to ours hands! Faith without action is dead! Be obidient to the things we cant rap your head around. (What I got from that was even though we cant rap our head around the fact that we arent in Brasil and why the consulate has jerked us around for so long we are still to be obedient in our walk with our Father!) The most important things in life are unseen! (What I got from that was that we dont see our visas, but they are there and they are coming!)
God is establishing our identity. Once you understand your identity you will go to the supernatural! (What I got from that is God wants us to see who we are and know who we are. It's so funny Pastor Joshua is always like, "Do you know who you are? Do you know who you are? Do you know who you are?" And I realized if he were really asking us that and not just using it in his speakings I wouldn't know what to say) The world doesn't need us to fit in. They need us to walk through life with answers, love and in site. We serve a miraculous God. God doesn't just reveal knowledge, He gives it to us to perform.
We need people in this world who are desperate to be with Jesus, Who have faith. God will help us MEET our needs.
This is a statement he said I really liked, "It takes a moment of stopping your thoughts and listening to the Holly Spirit." My mind is so wild it moves a million miles an hour, its so hard for me to tell it to shut up. A lot of the times I get my thoughts and what could be God talking to me mixed up because I don't stop thinking....
At the end of service, he asked everyone who needed healing to stand up and I did. Bruce and his family prayed for me. After that Bruce was like, "Hey want to go up there and see if he'll pray for us?" So we did. But instead of Sean Smith we had Pastor Gary pray for us. Bruce, Nellie, me and Pastor Joshua. He prayed for our Visas. After he was done praying we started talking and all of the sudden this black lady (apparently she's prophetic) she came up behind me and push me in and was like, "Everyone scoot in scoot in. I ended up being in the middle of this circle which was awkward..haha... But I didn't mind, she kept saying to us, "You have a task ahead of you, and it will be completed." She just kept saying that! It was amazing!
Thank you Jesus! God is good! That was awsome!!