After building, tilling and planting two green houses and over 100 acai berry trees in villages along one of the Amazon tributaries on this year’s mission trip to Brazil, our team was treated to a little jungle education, courtesy of our guide Milton. Milton was raised on the Negro River and has an encyclopedic mind [...]
On Sunday afternoon, June 25th, at 12:45 Backstage at the WareHouse, you will have a chance to hear about JMI’s most recent trips to India and Brazil, complete with testimonies and slides. Pizza and drinks will be provided for those who RSVP to brittany@justiceandmercy.org by Friday, June 24th for a donation toward the expense. Please [...]
The LemonAID Club is having a lemonade stand for the Moldova Orphanage and Grace House on Saturday, June 4th 8-2 at Freedom Middle School’s Baseball fields. During the YMCA t-ball and baseball games, kids will be selling delicious lemonade and snacks. The LemonAID Club kids have been working on this for a full year. Please [...]
I wonder whose gospel you’re living by these days? Long before most of us were introduced to the gospel of Jesus, we were indoctrinated into the “gospel of mom.” The gospel of mom taught us some valuable lessons. Many of us not only learned those lessons, we are still living by them today. Their roots [...]
“…who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame” I think I got a very small, but unforgettable taste of what it must have been like for the Messiah to “empty himself” from our just completed mission trip to India. Here’s what I mean, in a few random impressions: [...]
This summer’s early Moldova mission trip responses have been uncharacteristically weighted toward male volunteers and light on responses from women. That presents a real concern for us, knowing how critical it is to have a strong and sensitive female presence! Our Straseni team in particular, led by our pastor Jeff and Jana Zbinden, has an [...]
May 23, 2011 - JMI’s 3rd Annual Benefit Golf Tournament The thrill of victory and the agony of chili dips, duck hooks, embarrassing shanks and verbal barbs continues for another year as supporters of JMI tee it up again to claim world domination over their golf-chasing brethren and the fabled greens of Temple Hills Country Club. As [...]
Here are two questions God asked in the Old Testament that ripple down through the ages with hurricane force to you and I today: Where are you? Who will go for us? The first was asked of Adam and Eve while hiding from God in the Garden of Eden. They had broken the only rule [...]
This is a question that I’m receiving more and more these days. I’m always glad to hear it because it means someone else has already come to understand just how important it is to be a “player” and not just a “fan” with their Christian lives. So which mission opportunity is right for you? India? [...]
There is a line from the song, “Amazing Grace,” that asks us to consider a point in the future “when we’ve been there 10,000 years.” I think it is a given that God has an unlimited amount of creativity, knowledge and wisdom yet to reveal to us; enough to preoccupy most all of those years. [...]
