Jack & Mary Jo Jansson
Our ministry is driven by both the admonition of Proverbs 31: 8&9 and Our Savior's High Priestly Prayer in John 17: we seek to speak up / represent / encourage / come-along-side-of the hurting and poor, both here and in Northern Mexico - we do this in response to His prayer to "make them one, as You and I are one".
Most of our ministry focus is with and through: 1) Verdad y Vida Presbyteriana; Puerto Anapra, Chihuahua, Mexico; 2) Manos de Lucas Medical Ministries; Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico / Puerto Anapra / El Paso, Texas - feeding centers + medical clinics + churches + surgery suites + orphanage + feeding 15,000 at Thanksgiving; 3) Monte Santo Presbyteriana; Puerto Anapra, Chihuahua, Mexico; 4) River of Life Orphanage, Puerto Anapra, Chihuahua, Mexico; 5) Grace Bible Institute and Church, Puerto Anapra, Chihuahua, Mexico; 6) Igelsia Bautista Peregrino, El Paso, Texas; 7) Casas por Cristo Ministries, El Paso and Ciudad Juarez area of Northern Mexico; + 8) Stateside missionaries in preparation for their field assignments.
To date we have organized and led 20+ trips into Northern Mexico to minister to these above, dear friends. During these short-term, 8-day trips we have built 14, brand new homes for the 'hurting & poor", while challenging the participants (over 200 thru the last 8 years) to open their eyes and their hearts to Jesus and His call on each of our lives. Five different groups have 'spun-off' of these trips and are now actively participating in similar efforts, while we've also seen several participants seek full-time missionary status.
Presently we are looking at opportunities to be better organized and effective.
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Prayer requests for June 2008 trip:
please pray that those who go will not come back the same - that He will be able to break thru the noise and business of life as its generally lived out in Johnson County, Kansas;
please pray that these team members will be unified (John 17 unity), in Christ, to see / hear / feel / taste what He has already prepared for us who go;
please pray that He will use this to convince ALL who go, that we are all missionaries, every day and every where we may go - not just when we are on a 'missions' trip;
please pray for a REVOLUTION of both hearts and minds and that we all would begin to understand and live life as He explains in Micah 6:8.
Jack