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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~
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