Paraiso Encontrar du Ruas, Novo Contagem

Hi all! Here are the pics of the precious team of folks out here in Ipe Amerelo...Novo Contagem! Just a very brief overview of our time out in the streets ministering together; these guys are so real. They love God with everything they have and they live in very poor conditions READY to share this love with those in the community. The good news is going forth and people are surrendering their lives to a Savior named JESUS CHRIST!!! This is our power prayer hour before hitting the Casa De Apoio downtown set up. What does that mean? Well, it is a small little area where the ministry has set up a special bank, medical clinic, dental clinic, bakery, school for children, and sewing shop, small church, aftershool program and library all free to the very poor people who are living in this village favela.

A picture of two of my girls arranging a puzzle that the people out in the street will actually paint and piece together during our time of ministry.Our car ride over to the small downtown square which Casa De Apoio has actually set up and claimed. Pretty awesome right?
Note these two girls...they are coming into what we are doing because of the puzzle. They ended up being really touched by the message of love. Not too many pics of the affect because I am the only one recording it ... in the physical that is; praise the Living Lord for all the heavenly cameras!!! Also note the young woman in the background. She was getting checked for some pretty serious conditions, very nervous, I have to keep it confidential, but we prayed for her thru tears and she also experienced a huge miracle that dayafter seeing the doctor... and was convicted deeply in the spirit to change her lifestyle to get serious about Jesus.



I am so proud of this team! The two girls leading in the arts this day were phenomenal. They kept on asking..."Jeanne, am I doing this right?" in their beautiful Portuguese. And I could only smile huge and nodd quickly with hugs! Are you, lovelies kidding? You couldn't be shining any brighter! God, you are SO good! Let your light shine thru us, your kids, forever and ever!

Jackson holds it down with the hospitality section of our team that day, passing out the cookies and (my favorite drink ONLY in Brasil, mind you...) Guarana to all those nearby with a smile and 'Deus te abençoe'.


Time to put the puzzle together! Gather round!

A Valentine of His love. And now we GOTS to bring the Word somebody!!! God's rain fell down upon us as the people listened and were touched by the kingdom kind of love! The love given thru the blood of a servant king, Jesus, who layed it all down for us and would gladly do it over again. Thank yYou Lord for the worship team with us this day as well who, in their love for You, are learning how to let everything flow in the Holy Spirit, especially at this crucial moment when the true amor needs to be thought about. Sorry no pics. Powerful crew!

Jesus: verdad amor... Jesus: true love... He is the way we understand this...thru that precious blood, and then............. TRUE love pours out of us, hallelujah!! It can only happen through TRUE understanding of this Jesus and HIS TRUE love first for us. Please continue to pray for creative ways to express the need for this...TRULY understanding His true love so that all of God's people could begin to live it out for others... this is my general dream not only for Brasil but the whole earth, y'all!! Our identity is strictly found thru Him and His precious love for us! Yeah!
Got to pray or this infant who was being seen for colic. Such a dire need for prayer warriors for the moms in the slum out here too. My translator really helps me when it comes to delivering the word of encouragement to the parents during ministry. Praise God!

Ministering after the love word is shot forth! Please! There are so many moments I just couldn't catch bcuz I am the one leading the kids. And I do not want to be in their eyes some tourist at all to take the attention off of what God is so miraculously doing out here!

Please continue to pray for these cuties! They are so amazing as they allow God to work thru them! And pray I would continue to carry wisdom and example everywhere I go out here for the rest of my time!

Overwhelmed in His glory and love,
Jeanne

The...cake????

Ok, you really wanted to see that? You guys are hilarious!!! Please write IN THE BLOG...not in my hotmail account! The truth is that there were two cakes cuz there were two gatherings. AND...Christelle and Miia, Noah, Keri, Keith, Caleb, and I don't even know who else thought it would be interesting(???) to have a b-day celebration for me out there in Cali when I wasn't even there...with a NOTHER cake...super silly, but cute as EVER I say! As long as you partied hard, cuties! I love you so much!!! Here is Albert and Renilda on the phone with you guys in the states on the night of my bday. Brasil meets California!!! Family to family, praise God!Who says you can't hang out with bananas on your own day of birth?! So...I hung out in the banana trees ...you wanna make something of it?Ok, this is what I was really up to... making boxes for the 15th anniversary party which just passed for Crianca Feliz. Yes, they are boxes made from banana leaves, dried, then painted with vernise acrylic. Soaps were then placed inside for gifts for the donors of the ministry.

Please pray for my month, and thanks for the financial support if you are being led to give... God sees and blesses, and knows I need it right now. I will be posting the pics of my ministry next week if I have another minute. The prayer requests are as follows:{The PFTS team here in Brasil. This is the day we did the heart puzzle together. The kids are sharing in this photo before praying, before going out}

The new ministry team in Novo Contagem NEEDS to remain after I leave; teams are for God not man.. one pastor plus a brother named Jadel has the fire to keep things moving, but the teenagers and early twenties members are the yougest leaders I have ever trained. The pastor is also a missioanry here, but just out of his area for Novo Contagem so this could really work with prayer!!Their fire is wild and contageous and can not be smothered in any way. Brasil needs this joy and these kids have it to release!

Pray that Pastor Divino and Jadel can come together and fuel these precious ones with encouragement, furthered discipleship, love, and team focus through prayer every week...as well as a blast from the river for soaking HARD in the presence of God, which is what step the team needs to come into next.

Pray that Brasil would be set free from the religious spirit trying to suffocate the ones who want to jump out of the boat and into the deep rivers! There are two major religions here after the Catholic religeon, and if you are not one of these (and I am talking in the protestant faith folks!!!) you are not really a believer at all> Baptist (which means something entirely different out here... it is the first question people will ask you immediatly after getting your name and where you are from. The spirit boldly speaks his name: "i am religeon and i am here to keep God's people trapped". Baptists are actually where almost the whole Christian church as we know it at home in the states would fall into, me included because of my understanding of God and Jesus biblically, and doctrinally though Daddy knows I am just called HIS KID) and /or Evangelical (which out here means a crazy person, literally, because any one who does something a little different like saying, "hallelujah" every now and then or might happen to say, "hey lets pray about that...right now" or any other out of the ordinary thing is dabbling with a little something known as ...ehem...the Holy Spirit, which MANY Baptists don't move in and, I have come to think, do not really truly believe in, or hardley, if ever, desire to understand because it is too weird for "regular people to just walk in"! HELP, Jesus! Brasil is so amazing and needs a blast from you... a river blast of revival!!!

Pray with me against fear for the already solid believers who are usually the Baptists, because there really are too many weird things happening in the Evangelical movement a lot because there is such a fierce spirit of judgement and gossip of the opposing faith... so it is literally a war, and, sadly the Evangelicals get the runt of it all because they are then trying to prove that they are actually alive with the Holy Spirit. When this occurs, strife occurs and other spiritual warfare can seap in. These precious ones really have something beautiul, but severely missing the importance of the biblical principles, discipleship, the grounding in the Word. I need wisdom as always, as I try and teach that all three parts of the trinity are true and we need to learn how walk together with our brothers and sisters without judgement on either side so we all REALLY look like Jesus and become world changers together! As far as the fear...well, it is there in the Baptists to block them from getting healing, restoration, refreshing, strength, joy, etc... No Holy Spirit= no life. Thank You, Señhor Jesus for sending the one who leads us into that life abundantly and never leaving us without a Comfortor. I love You, Holy Spirit.

Pray against the spirit of alcohal; there are gillions of bars EVERYWHERE regardless of the area. WE BAN THIS DEMON IN JESUS' name! WE loose the HOLY SPIRIT in it's place, in Jesus' name! Pray with me for the artistic expression in children and adolescents to be released to bring a new thing that is goverened by God and WAY more attractive than alcohal to divert the attention of wandering souls. AND JOY again, I say, for the precious filling of the Holy Spirit to accompany this, with perfect commitment in the people miraculously working with that same Spirit! It is capable in Jesus' name!!!

Pray I can help Renilda start a house of prayer. I am living with her family (they own the whole corner of the street in Ceu Azul, Brasil) this month and we are starting a committed hour of soaking and intercession for Brasil every morning together as of tomorrow till I leave. She has offered to house all missionaries involved with the ministry God has given me for the streets and for intercession and intimacy adorative prayer for Minas Gerais (this area of Brasil) for the future.
And for one more thing: I am finished working in all of the homes of Crianca Feliz and am wrestling with the idea of either heading to Recife to see their street ministry there, which would be great, yet...or should I say, OR I have been invited to work with three other ministries who do strategic street and people outreach with deep love, as well as one ministry with a hard core focus on the Keith Green style ministry home movement here.

This is my observation week of all three other ministries. Have only spent one day with Aguaviva ministry in the poorest favela in Ceu Azul and feel a tug to continue to minister alongside this awesome English missionary. We fed over 200 people with gourmet Brasilian cuisine from four restaraunts who donate food that was left over and never touched during the big meal of the day here- amolce. I went to the restaraunts and actually got to pray overthe people giving, as well as over all the food! You should see these precious ones as they receive the love later in the day. All lined up with their containers ready to gather rice and beans and salad, and eggs and squash. It is priceless to have the honor of praying with them.

I spoke at their church in the evening on activating our prayer life through adoration and praise for joy to continue on down here in the earth, and they have invited me back for the baptisms of some new folks tomorrow morning. Its a big party to come and get me in the bus! You will see in the pics.

Anyways, a busy, busy week: today it is visiting Charisma ministry to head to Pedrieda favela (the oldest, most dangerous one in central city... no pics from here, at least not today) to minister (pray for me), tomorrow it's the baptisms and Auguaviva again, Sunday it is off to Nova Lima to Thomas Padleys ministry of ministry homes and Holy Ghost flowing in the rivers (finally met these guys after much prayer and had a riot with em last time!!! Thomas and his wife moved here from Ohio 23 years ago because of a call to Brasil's indiginous peoples. They have a ministry in the Amazon as well as equipping the churches for the river here closer to the city. James Padley is a pretty famous musician out here. I will tell more later), and Monday I will go back out to Pedrieda with JOCCUM, the equivalent of YWAM out here to find four boys who have been picked to ask to live in the refuge home away from the drugs in the streets for a 2 week trial period. By Tuesday I will have a better idea of my schedule for the next month. I love to involve each one of you in my prayers and endeavors. I love you. Please pray God clears the way. Everyone wants me to come... where is God leading for this final season here? Who needs my time the most? Which ministry will allow me to continue to minister to Renilda and her family while I stay with them learning this beautiful language and culture (last night was soooo amazing in our worship together as a family out on the veranda...much healing and rejuvination like a spark of electricity in the Spirit...al of us were taken up together to another place. Hallelujah!)? Only He knows.

I will be home November 4, and we will have to have a breaking bread night immediately if not sooner. Please start to mark the date of the following Sat after so we can all hug and pray and worship Daddy together. I love you all and bless God for your warmth and good, sweet, real love for both me and Pops!!!A kiss for a cutie in Ipe Amarelo, Novo Contagem. SO adorable! Bless her Lord!
"'...and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven'. And He laid His hands on them, and departed thence."
Matthew 19:14,15

a hallelujah happy bday!

These are my birthday pics...a long time coming! I am so blessed for my family here in Brazil...they take such good care of me like Jesus would.

I loved all of your birthday greetings, and I have been so busy...sorry it has taken so long to write to you. These are pics of a brazilian bbq... my precious Renilda and Albert threw this one n their veranda which overlooks the entire city of Belo...what a sweet time together in Christ! And a surprise at that!




The end of my work day with Crianca Feliz....my b day n the night time...

The bbq...charrasco... brasilian style!
Michelle.Vera and David with her brother.... slammin on the grill!

friends...

Jefferson plays his music in the Holy Spirit and lets it flow for Jesus!

Renilda and me!
The end of the party was too much fun! Muse, this ones for you! The motorcycles here are the best!

hanging out the next night after church at Laguina (Albert, Lucas, and Mariane)

YAY JESUS! Some of the children at casa Emmaus... the rescue shelter with Crianca Feliz! his was an aawesome work!
The Light and Darks of our lives....


The Tree of Life!

OK, brace yourselves...the newest Paradise Found the Ruas....Novo Contagem, BRAZIL!
Pastor Divino out with us...lots of poor children get the giggles in the Holy Spirit while we pass out some asuca and biscoits!
our sign to all...in Portuguese: "If you found true love what would you d with it?"

This is the heart of the Lord...LOVE! Hats off to the team of radicals for Jesus out here! Please pray for them; they work so hard and do it with such joy! (The pic I promised before....the girls at Casa De Meninas showing off their self portraits!!!)

Street work and family visits with the social worker in Ipe Amarelo, Novo Contagem. I have forever fallen in love with this place. All of the cuties here follow me around every Wednesday. It has been awesome discipling the women in the garlic factory..so many people in Brazil know about Jesus, His name is almost a fad, on the cars, the tee shirts, the music, SO many churches, but few really know what it means to live this life for Him. Please continue to pray for me as well as my translators to accurately spread forth the message of life, healing, joy, and love through Jesus.

This mother is precious, living in a shack with garbage all around her and the family, she is so humble and gentle in spirit; she went into her room to get a sheet to put on the beaten up sofa with holes all over, and then the children tried to dissapear. They said they were embarrassed. Thats when the Holy Spirit showed me what to do! I whipped out the word and said, lets gather together...and hear a story...
I told them how everyone always fllowed Jesus around for a story, and we went straight thru the sermon on the mount and the beattitudes. BLESSED are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom! I told them about their true destinies here and how they were royalty and then I took off my shoes and told them I felt more comfortable where there was true love then any hoity toity place on the earth...and told them it was here!!! Then we prayed together.
What a change Jesus makes!

I love you guys! Write me! Miss you! Jeans