WATCH THE STORY Pastor Edward Petrenco and his wife, Anna, have dedicated their lives to ministering to vulnerable children in rural villages. “There are dysfunctional families, broken families, incomplete families; there are families destroyed by alcohol. The most important need is the safety of children,” he says. “They genuinely don’t …
Louie’s Shoes: A God-Moment in the Amazon
Written by Jackie Heberle, Amazon Mission Trip, August 2024 If there is one thing I have learned over the years concerning mission trips, it’s that plans change, timelines move, and God works despite it. Actually, I think He orchestrates it. On this, my third trip to the Amazon, these things …
A Battle with Many Victories: Pastors Ralci and Rosalia
WATCH THEIR STORY Pastor Ralci came to know Christ in an unconventional way. “I was hiding under the bed to surprise my wife,” he tells the story of what happened 25 years ago. At the time, his wife, Rosalia, was already a Christian. “She knelt down without knowing I was …
An Evening with JMI 2024
“God is moving; He is doing so much around the world,” Kelly Minter said as she came on stage to host this year’s An Evening with JMI. “Tonight is one of the most important nights of the year.” Kelly is a Bible teacher and author who has been highly involved …
Taking My Mom to the Amazon
By Julie Reneslacis, JMI Logistics & Events Coordinator If you had asked me when I started interning with Justice & Mercy International in the summer of 2022 which of the two countries we work in I’d like to visit first, I would have said Moldova without batting an eyelash. If …
Leading the littlest ones
Shepherding children is holy work. Pastors and volunteers who lead little ones in 51 different villages gathered at our John Pac Center in Terra da Paz in August for our annual Children’s Leaders Conference. The Lord surprised us in many ways! We had planned for 60 people, but God sent …
Just Love Them
Written by Mary Fahnestock – Risipeni, Moldova Trip 2024 “Love them…just love them”. These are the words that I sensed the Lord impress upon my heart as I would try to analyze how I could take away the brokenness and fix what I would see each day at camp. These words …
Discipling kids in the Amazon
If education unlocks a world of opportunity, how do you reach the littlest boys and girls in isolated jungle villages with this key? Our Amazon team partners with local churches to run an early childhood education program called PEPE. Started by a Baptist missionary couple in Brazil in 1992, PEPE …
More of God and Less of Me
Written by Jennifer Wilson, Serve + Study Women’s Amazon Trip 2024 As a child, I loved to hear stories from my aunt and uncle about their time living with an indigenous people group in the Amazon region. Their tales of snakes and piranhas and the uniqueness of the tribe’s language …
Our Giving Should Become Personal
A Devotion from Jeff Simmons, President of JMI & Senior Pastor at Rolling Hills Church Through Justice & Mercy International, we have the opportunity to make justice personal to the poor, the vulnerable, and the forgotten. Giving is such an important part of this. When we give, we are investing …