It’s hard to believe this time last year I was waking up to my first morning on top of a mountain, in Colorado, for Jesus, beginning the some of the most incredible months of my life. My Discipleship Training School with Youth With A Mission was life changing. There is no way I could have made it through without each and every one of you! Your prayers, support, encouragement and love got me there, and kept me going.
Since my time with YWAM I’ve been staying fairly busy. It amazes me how Jesus orchestrates our lives and there is no way that anything we could ever dream up could be any better than what He has in store for us. When I first arrived in Colorado I was given a Bible verse. I received Proverbs 16:9, “We make our own plans, but the Lord decides where we will go”. This verse terrified me. I thought for sure that during my time at YWAM Jesus was going to tell me that I wouldn’t be going back to Haiti and He would send me somewhere else. While I’m willing to go wherever He sends me, I think each of you know that Haiti has a very special place in my heart, and I really want to be there again. Good news, I still believe that He has called me to Haiti and that He is continuing to prepare my heart and pave the way for me to be there full time.
I flew back to Indiana in February. The week after I got home the Lord provided a job at Family Christian in Plainfield. There I was able to share my heart with people, talk to people about Jesus and hear of things Jesus was doing in so many peoples lives. I made incredible friends there, not only co-workers but customers also. I worked there from February to May. In May I left to intern in Chicagowith Awana. My time at Awana was wonderful. Jesus taught me many things, and I grew a lot. We did everything from hosting 24 college students and taking them around the city, to helping to produce a video for church leaders in China, to helping launch a $1.6 million initiative to reach more children with the Gospel. I met incredible people there and I’ve loved keeping in touch with them. While in Chicago I was also able to get involved in a Haitian community, going to church, learning to cook and speak creole, I now also have my own Haitian family. They are wonderful, I actually spent this past weekend in Chicago with them. In August, I moved back home and I’ve been here ever since. I’ve had the opportunity to get involved in the youth group at our church which is growing by leaps and bounds! The Christmas Bags for Haiti container left yesterday with over 11,000 bags on it, I started yesterday with tutoring Hispanic kids in Greenwood, helping them to read and I’m working on getting a degree in Education through Liberty University online. I’m currently unaware of what Jesus has next on the agenda. He did open up a door for me to take a trip to Haiti about a month ago (and even provided the funds, yay!). I leave October 18 and will be there for a week. I’m really excited about this opportunity. I’m cooking for a team from Pennsylvania. For those of you who know me you are probably rolling on the floor laughing right now, because you know that I have no cooking talent in me. I’ve decided that if I can make it through a week of cooking for 25 people three times a day, I can do just about anything!
The reason for this letter was to update all of you, most of you have been with me since my first trip to Haiti in December 2008. Thank you for all of your prayers, support and encouragement. I want to ask for prayer for this trip. Pray that I would hear from the Lord while on this trip and maybe He will open doors for me to be there longer, pray that I would have an open heart and mind to whatever He has in store, and also pray for my team members, that Jesus would use all of us to reach and encourage His people!
You all hold a special place in my heart, and I would love to hear from you with prayer requests or just an update on your lives!
All because of Jesus,
Jenny
“I have one desire now- to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it." - Ed McCully
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Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:5-11
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