Every time I’m around a group who has been on mission with us or speaking with a sponsor, I hear people talking about kids I don’t remember or something going on in a child’s life of which I was completely unaware! And when I do, I thank God that JMI is so much more than a few paid employees. We are people bound by a common, driving passion to have our lives make a tangible difference in the life of someone else who is in desperate need…many eyes, many ears and many hearts united in a common cause to see God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven!
Occasionally, someone steps out of the crowd to do something really out of the ordinary and worthy of celebration. We thought you’d enjoy reading about the creative ways others are finding to express their love and support on behalf of needs around the world. Enjoy and be inspired!
When Jeff Pittman went on his first mission trip to Moldova in 2012, he had no idea that the orphans there would radically change his life, nor that he would find himself in the position of changing many of theirs! Very shortly after he returned from Moldova, Jeff did what so many are compelled to [...]
Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe, for instance, that certain people are pre-destined to be saved? What about that person you’re married to?…destiny or random choice? Or how about the disease or tragedy someone in your life is presently battling? Is there a purpose to it or do those things just happen because [...]
21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. 22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,I will have no regard for them. 23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of [...]
Are you angry or depressed by all the news of a world enflamed against the United States? Perhaps it would do your heart good to listen to the hearts of our orphan friends living in our transitional homes in Moldova. Here is a sampling of responses I received to a few poignant questions: When you [...]
Every summer my church sends a team of volunteers to minister to orphans in Moldova. And every summer we take one Sunday morning to hear from those volunteers about their trip. My first visit to Rolling Hills coincided with one of those Moldova reports, and that was all I needed to know that this was the church for me.
Lee Company’s mission team took several teenagers from Internat II to the Orhei Monastery. Pictured at from left to right, Nina Svisci (16), Tania Lencautan (14), and Irina Docuciaev (14). It was the first time the girls had ever seen the monastery, and after eating at the [...]
Hey Buckaroos! JMI was recently honored to be the beneficiary of $1,005 raised from a Barrel Race Rodeo put on by Cross Creek Cowboy Church in Vale, North Carolina. Better yet, Pastor Alan Davis has promised to make this an annual event on our behalf! Cross Creek is a mission of Hulls Grove Baptist Church. [...]
Partnering with JMI will be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, ministry opportunity F.A.I.T.H. Riders has ever had. With God’s prompting my wife Michele and I traveled to Moldova this past December. The only sure thing about the trip Michele and I knew was that God said go! Everything else was a mystery. To [...]
You are invited to JMI’s FEAST OR FAMINE Dinner Wednesday, November 16th at 6 p.m. There are few things as hard in life as staring into the eyes of a hungry person. Most of us – even, if not especially, followers of Christ – reflexively look away. Why do we do that? For me, it is a combination of [...]
Amanda Sanfilippo is someone we endearingly refer to as “a Moldova-head” in much the same way that “Parrot-heads” are Jimmy Buffett fans. She has worked with our orphan friends on many occasions there and has mastered many of the songs in Romanian with which the rest of us continue [...]
One of the real blessings of our ministry is watching how God moves in the lives of people once they’ve been exposed to the plight of children around the world. Jason Cruise went to Moldova for the first time this summer and returned with his heart broken for the orphaned and abandoned children who are [...]
I have been involved with JMI since the first of my five trips to Moldova in 2006. The first trip started off on a dare with another man in my church, that if he went, I would go along on a construction team. That trip has changed both of our lives with my friend eventually taking into his home an orphan from Moldova.
LemonAID Club is more than just a kid’s business. It is a way to teach philanthropic ideals by having kids helping other kids. This philosophy is at the core of JMI, people reaching out to others. By utilizing the Christian values of brotherly love, charity and sharing in God’s glory, humanity as a whole becomes [...]
