Journey to...

Crianca Feliz this week and next... with eyes wide open. I am going to stay in the Girls home for two weeks away from precious Casa De Apoio where I have been staying ever since I journied into the real ministry of Brazil 2008... on the face of the earth...in this time... as we know it.

Casa De Apoio, which means House of Care, is where I have been living and ministering for the last month. What a prophetic name huh? I have enjoyed every minute of it, even the strange times that have actually been recently only because all of the children who usually stay here during the week about to move out while a group of American missionaries will be coming to do some outreach with Byron Shore. I will be packing everything up to give a sister whom I have never met my empty bed for this time.

Please pray for this group of folks that will be coming to Contagem, Brasil and working in all of the places I have been working with Casa De Apoio: Novo Contagem, Waterfall of Souls, Casa De Apoio here in Contagem, and the small villages around these areas. The group will officially be doing ministry, some probablly for the first time in their lives, for one full week, but many preparations are going on with them now for this time up-coming, and I will not be with them nor meet them. Pray that they will be amazingly productive and blessed in their interactions with the children. Amen!
Also pray that this missionary, Byron shore, will be fully recovered from his sickness he cuaght a week ago. We (the little cutie from North Carolina, Sarah, who has been my roomie here in the house for three weeks and doing great in her experience here, teaching, even preaching a bit, and playing with the children) prayed over him, anointed him with oil, and made some good, old fashioned, veggie homestyle soup for him last night; he says he´s feeling better! Praise God!

I will love your prayers for a great burst of freedom to be released over the children I am about to go and minister to through mama style work over the next two weeks. I will not be at all on the blog to update, only to view your comments and prayers, so please bare with me, family, as it is hard to call or write personal little notes- a- roos.; you know I love each of you and so appreciate you even so.


Here is a pic of some of the conditions the families are living in where I have made social work visits. I took this pic on my way to the garlic factory to minister to the women there. This is nothing compared to the last house I visited where there was literal plastic up for a barracade, an extremely dangerous, very tall, man-made brick staircase leading up to a dingy, literal hole in a wall with garbage spewed out all over, a bunch of dust everywhere, the materials of some type of cotton bursting out of the mattress where a young mother lay in bed with two children: one a filthy infant who probablly had not showered for days, and the other a 13 year old girl, dressed as a boy, not in school because she is trying to be the `man of the house`. How twisted can it be, family? Please pray for Bahbara: she is the 13 year old. I held her gently and spoke to her sweet things about her being a very special flower in a field of many, one with a unique color. She seemed to have just melted in my arms, as I do not believe she has ever experienced this kind of physical, healthy touch and attention. I cried when we were finally out of their sight. These are the normal family situations going on in the poor communities and slums; ones like this will be treated accordingly by Casa De Apoio. Praise God Almighty. Bahbara is now going to be put into a school nearby and assigned a special phsycologist perhaps, beacuase this was only our first visit to the home.


Here are a few of the ladies I love in the factory; the woman to my left is Betche and she is about to pop! So precious! so pregnant! She is the one in charge of the others. We pray together and have Bible studies in that factory behind us, and all is amazing. None of these women know the Lord yet, but they are so eternally grateful for any time I spend with them. They are hungry for love and not afraid to shed tears when it comes roaring across because of the AWESOME HOLY SPIRIT, not me or anyone else.

Look! The Waterfall children. I have grown to adore these children we visit as an outdoor ministry every Sunday about an hour out from Contagem.

They literally run after the car waving and laughing and screaming their goodbyes to us in Portuguese so lovely, when it´s time for us to leave... sometimes we have to almost rip ourselves away from them...IT DOES rip out your heart in the spirit! They are beautiful, and they love all the attention they can get.

We are here with their goodies we passed out for the day after our Sunday lesson while Jehovahs witnesses eyed us in jealousy, looming around the gazebo trying to talk with all of their parents who stay inside and don´t know what to think.

The only idea of anything remotely having to do with God comes from the famous Catholic churches towering high above all other houses and buildings to show their authority in the desolate unreached villages like these ones. The children know nothing about the Bible and are not being taught unless we come. The people do not know about Jesus, only about old catholic religeon that they are all very strictly raised in. Pray for the starting of a radical church out there; we need it soon. Especially now that the Jehovah´s Witnesses found the village out. But praise God for our already WELL established relationships with these gems who know Jesus in us while we REALLY bring in the words of love and teaching, the words of Jesus, too much to be swayed by religion.

Before we start an art lesson we always gotta limber up a bit! Creative movement style! I mean lets get silly for a while for goodness sakes! These kids really do know how to boogie down with some east coast holy hip hop during musical chairs too, man! cOME ON! As this really sweet brother out there(in my New york years) used to say at the end of eeeevery worship service in Abounding Grace Christian Center...`Well praise the Lord somebody`!

Here is one of my art classes being taught in the Casa De Apoio on a Tuesday with Raquel.

Lots of wonderful works! We are doing a pretty pretty projecta that´s not quite done yet!

This little girl was priceless. She was as briliant as a star. Glad I got to hold her in my arms for this moment of time as we visited the family in devastaing situations that day. Pray that this little girl will remain bright and always kept from danger. Also pray life as you do...there is a spirit of death trying to overtake her family; many are dying rapidly from various different reasons. Our God is so huge! He is the Great Giver OF LIFE!!! And we know that superstitions don´t work...JUST PRAYER!!! Halelujah!

I cherish your prayers over my life these upcoming weeks. I will share soon all that God is doing through Crianca Feliz; I know you are ready to see the pics there...and me too! I am so blessed out here with all of what God is doing and so glad he knows all the pictures already in the heavens...not just of my life but all of yours too!

Hope your Summer is going restful and beautiful in the states. I love you and miss you all very much. The Winter here is neat; it is like a crisp, Spring San Francisco Day. Remember that Jeanne Gergis in Brazil is always looking to the King, and praising Him for His countless blessings of peace and refreshment in the marvelous works He uses us kids to help Him accomplish in the earth!

Much love for me to you,

His hand extended as long as this life may last,

Jeanne