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Welcome to the Jungle

Can you believe it?! Thanks to our many amazing Jungle Pastor Sponsors, we’re just days away from the 6th Annual Jungle Pastors’ Conference on the Amazon River. Each year we have the honor of gathering with these men and women who are quite literally taking the Gospel to the ends of …

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The Discovery Gets a Makeover

If you’re familiar at all with the ministry in the Amazon, you’ve seen or lived on the iconic JMI hammock boat, the Discovery. She’s become widely loved by our teams and has faithfully carried hundreds of trip participants down the mighty Amazon. We truly could not reach the villages and …

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Noboy is His Name

“Noboy.” The name sounded like it came with a story, and it did. When I first met the smaller than average five-year-old and heard his name, it sounded a little humorous.  But as I heard his story, that name – “Noboy” – began to make tragic sense.  It seems that …

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3 Reasons the Jungle Pastor’s Conference Is Kelly Minter’s Favorite Week of the Year

https://kellyminter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kellyminter-1321-e1402589694418.jpeg Nashville-based Kelly Minter is an acclaimed author, Bible teacher, speaker and musician. Her bestselling Bible studies have been an inspiration to women of all ages, while as a musician she has released four full-length recordings. She also speaks to women around the U.S. at events like Cultivate and Abundance. Kelly …

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Caring for Vanea

You may remember a story from Moldova we shared with you a couple of weeks ago, entitled “Carrying Vanea.” It was an account from our recent Christmas in Moldova trip of a boy, Vanea in Costesti Orphanage who is disabled and cannot walk. One of our Transitional Living guys took …

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Carrying Vanea

This is Vanea. He is 9 years old and lives in an orphanage in Costesi, Moldova. Just last week, we had a team from the states visit his orphanage and present a fun and Gospel-focused Christmas program. At the end of the program, Santa Clause comes to bring gifts, and the kids …

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Delivering Warmth

     Give now to the work of Moldova, by clicking here.  We currently have a team on the ground in Moldova, seeking to bring warmth and the joy of the new born King to the poor and vulnerable. A team from Bartlesville, Oklahoma has been delivering loads of firewood, …

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Changed: Buddy Newsome

On November 1st,  JMI lost a great friend and advocate of our work in Moldova – Buddy Newsome. Buddy was a tremendous man of God and the founder of F.A.I.T.H. Riders, a nation-wide Christian motorcycle ministry. After years battling cancer, Buddy has gone home to be with the Lord he …

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Changed: Delani Distefano

JMI mission trips are designed to change the lives and circumstances of children and families in need.  But inevitably, our volunteers’ lives are transformed in the process.  “Changed” is a series that features some of their inspiring stories of transformation.  We hope you’ll enjoy this series of interviews and consider …

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Why CHRISTMAS in Moldova?

If you’ve not heard about the first Christmas I ever spent in Moldova (about 2002 as I recall), you probably can’t imagine why it has become such a staple mission trip for JMI. At the time, we were only working with two orphanages – Internat 2 in the capital city …

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