It’s coming like a whirlwind! We are headed to Colombia, Honduras, Brazil, and Mexico. We’ll be in a different country for each month between now and December. I wanted to write a brief description of what we’ll be doing in each place, and how you can help pray for us:
1st Colombia: I’m leaving today for Colombia and will be gone until the 1st of September. The first part of the trip will be with a team from Real Family Fellowship. I’ll be helping them while they bring a fresh approach on training Children’s and Youth Pastors in the city of Cali, Colombia. We’ll also find some great opportunities for evangelism while building relationships with the local pastors and missionaries there. After the group heads back to the States, I’ll head over to the seminary in Bogata for a few days. I can’t wait!!!!
Pray: It is not the safest city on the planet, but there are some precious souls that need Jesus as well as some courageous missionaries and pastors that need some help. We don’t really know what all to expect, so pray that the Holy Spirit will open the right doors, and protect us along the way. Things not only work out, they get incredible when He steps in!
2nd Honduras: I’ve wanted to go with Kent and the gang from my home church for years to visit the Nuevo Esperanza Feeding Center. They are bringing literally hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of medical supplies and food! I’m so glad to get to be a part of their ministry and help in anyway I can. We arrive on September 19th, but I plan on staying over to travel to one of our Bible schools in Honduras after the group leaves.
Pray: Honduras is a country of unrest these days. Our main mission is to give a cup of cold water to the thirsty souls living there. What a great time to declare the love and peace of God during such a time of turmoil! Pray for our protection and favor with the people and the powers-that-be. The new presidential elections are scheduled for October, after we leave. Pray for a peaceful conclusion to a difficult time. I’m still trying to get into one or more of the schools there. I’ve waited as long as I can to buy the tickets, and now I’ll have to make the arrangements from Colombia. I need favor, cheap airfare, good communication lines from Colombia, and some open doors.
3rd Brazil: We’ve been looking forward to the international conference of Christian Educators for a while, FIEL. We will be not only with some of the South American guys that I already know and love, but with all the leaders of the Central American Countries, the Caribbean, and Mexico! More doors, more schools, more influence, more students, more souls saved!!! Need I say more for October?
Pray: For direction and unity during the meetings. Pray for the new Latin American missionary sending agency that you can call “Amy” in English. I’m still looking for a school to teach at on the way home, pray a door opens!
4th Mexico: Mexico is blessed with some great leaders who are as excited about producing Latin American Missionaries as I am. I can’t wait to be with them at the mission conference as well as the new School in Guadalajara! Is Mexico cool in November?
Pray: For the new school, the teachers, the students, and the leaders in Mexico. Pray for open doors for the new missionaries, and for favor. Pray that a cheap route will open up for us to be connected frequently to a school that is only a 2 hour flight from Dallas.
We’re so excited for the season ahead! I love getting to teach and to help other groups minister, especially those who can help us train other pastors and missionaries. We’ll be back in the States for December & January, during the “summer break” of our schools! If you have an opening at your church during this time, please let us know. We’d love to come and share with your church family what we are doing, and how you can help!
Blessings,
Matt
817-764-0176
matthewjett@gmail.com
majett@juno.com
facebook: Matt Jett
August 18, 2009
A simple Plan
What a GREAT idea!!!
The following idea is very simple, costs little, works so well with our ministry, and helps you out at the same time!
If you or your church is taking a mission trip to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, or South America…Take me with you!
Medical missions, construction projects, youth group trips, Senior-Youth-Children’s or Music Pastoral training conferences, or any other mission trip or tour…whatever trip you have coming up!
I can help the group with everything from being an extra translator to preaching, praying, building, advising, counseling, or even serving as an extra chaperone…whatever you need. If this is one of your first trips, I’d be glad to help you plan the trip and place you in contact with some of the national workers.
The only thing I ask is that you pay for my ticket, and let me pick the return date. This can often be rolled into the cost of the trip. If I can stay over a few days after your group leaves, then I can work with the school of that nation! I’ll stay to help train missionaries and Pastors from the very area/country that you just fell in love with.
The last ticket a church purchased for me, allowed me to re-route through the city where the school was located and stay an extra week. It cost $4 extra! Sometimes, the total cost for my ticket can even be less than the others’ by staying later. What a great way to help effect the kingdom of God and give you one more helping hand while doing your trip!
Some of the churches are already helping a specific country or area. For example: If your heart is already in love with Bolivia, then let me go with your group on your next trip to Bolivia, and I’ll help you. Then I’ll stay and further help the people you love in Bolivia for a few more days by helping their pastors and future missionaries.
So, Help me by: Helping me…Help YOU!
Call or write me with questions.
Blessings,
Matt
817-764-0176
matthewjett@gmail.com
majett@juno.com
facebook: Matt Jett
The following idea is very simple, costs little, works so well with our ministry, and helps you out at the same time!
If you or your church is taking a mission trip to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, or South America…Take me with you!
Medical missions, construction projects, youth group trips, Senior-Youth-Children’s or Music Pastoral training conferences, or any other mission trip or tour…whatever trip you have coming up!
I can help the group with everything from being an extra translator to preaching, praying, building, advising, counseling, or even serving as an extra chaperone…whatever you need. If this is one of your first trips, I’d be glad to help you plan the trip and place you in contact with some of the national workers.
The only thing I ask is that you pay for my ticket, and let me pick the return date. This can often be rolled into the cost of the trip. If I can stay over a few days after your group leaves, then I can work with the school of that nation! I’ll stay to help train missionaries and Pastors from the very area/country that you just fell in love with.
The last ticket a church purchased for me, allowed me to re-route through the city where the school was located and stay an extra week. It cost $4 extra! Sometimes, the total cost for my ticket can even be less than the others’ by staying later. What a great way to help effect the kingdom of God and give you one more helping hand while doing your trip!
Some of the churches are already helping a specific country or area. For example: If your heart is already in love with Bolivia, then let me go with your group on your next trip to Bolivia, and I’ll help you. Then I’ll stay and further help the people you love in Bolivia for a few more days by helping their pastors and future missionaries.
So, Help me by: Helping me…Help YOU!
Call or write me with questions.
Blessings,
Matt
817-764-0176
matthewjett@gmail.com
majett@juno.com
facebook: Matt Jett
Always Reminded
Every time I prepare to leave the States for the next mission, God seems to remind me of the basics. He does it in the way only a Father can. Because He knows his children well, He’s able to use just the right method for that particular time. Most of the time it is much more gently than we think He’d be. It is always amazing, but seldom easy.
A few months ago, I was reminded about the need to pray and fast before a trip. God allowed us to go into the same financial struggle that many have experienced as of late. April and I responded by pushing away the plate, not because we couldn’t buy food…but because we needed direction, a clear movement, and provision. Within just days the provision was there, and He gently reminded me of something I teach my own students but had forgotten for this trip. He reminded me of the hold that Hell had upon the people in the region where I was headed. I had been doing this stuff so long that I was taking it a little too lightly. I was going to the front lines of some major spiritual battles for the souls of that particular place. God used finances that time to remind me to push away the plate, seek His direction, presence, and provision for that mission, as I had been doing for the finances to get to that mission.
I hope that I remember and apply that lesson for a good long time…It was none too comfortable, if you know what I mean!
Well this time, God sent a gentle reminder concerning the bigger picture of what we, as Christians, “do.” He sent it through some good ol’ country gospel singing, or should I say, sayngin. I found a CD of one of my old favorites as a child at one of the book stores, and bought it a couple of weeks ago. It reminded me of all the reasons I started being a missionary in the first place. No, it was not a new song; and yes, I long to sing a new song of praise to God as the poet King David declared.
I can’t tell you that any of those songs took me to the wonderful place of worship where I find myself in His presence in a way that drowns out all the negativity and pain this world has to offer, leaving me in the sheer light of His presence. It often takes a new song, sung to the Great King of Kings who deserves a new sonnet to be scribed every second to do something like that. No, the moment that God sent to me had different intentions. These songs brought me back to a time where I remember hearing not only the song, but the message of the Savior for the first time. I remember what my heart felt when it discovered the forgiveness, the hope and the love of a God, I now call Father.
It did remind me of my first works. It reminded me of the way I felt the first day I met Jesus. It reminded me that “they” need to have a song, a moment to remember when they first met our incredible savior. It will be a different but similar song sung in another language. It will be new to them, and old to the next generation. But, it will declare in their heart what some of these old songs declared in mine.
I can’t wait to sing a new song with other siblings in the faith next week on a day of worship. That new song will be an old song in 10 years and will remind me of what God did for me way back when. But today, I remember through some old sweet songs, my first works…the sweetness of a Savior who left Heaven to pay a horrible price for my healing and forgiveness. I am fed with a new strength for my next mission oversees. A memory of the reason I do what I do.
A few months ago, I was reminded about the need to pray and fast before a trip. God allowed us to go into the same financial struggle that many have experienced as of late. April and I responded by pushing away the plate, not because we couldn’t buy food…but because we needed direction, a clear movement, and provision. Within just days the provision was there, and He gently reminded me of something I teach my own students but had forgotten for this trip. He reminded me of the hold that Hell had upon the people in the region where I was headed. I had been doing this stuff so long that I was taking it a little too lightly. I was going to the front lines of some major spiritual battles for the souls of that particular place. God used finances that time to remind me to push away the plate, seek His direction, presence, and provision for that mission, as I had been doing for the finances to get to that mission.
I hope that I remember and apply that lesson for a good long time…It was none too comfortable, if you know what I mean!
Well this time, God sent a gentle reminder concerning the bigger picture of what we, as Christians, “do.” He sent it through some good ol’ country gospel singing, or should I say, sayngin. I found a CD of one of my old favorites as a child at one of the book stores, and bought it a couple of weeks ago. It reminded me of all the reasons I started being a missionary in the first place. No, it was not a new song; and yes, I long to sing a new song of praise to God as the poet King David declared.
I can’t tell you that any of those songs took me to the wonderful place of worship where I find myself in His presence in a way that drowns out all the negativity and pain this world has to offer, leaving me in the sheer light of His presence. It often takes a new song, sung to the Great King of Kings who deserves a new sonnet to be scribed every second to do something like that. No, the moment that God sent to me had different intentions. These songs brought me back to a time where I remember hearing not only the song, but the message of the Savior for the first time. I remember what my heart felt when it discovered the forgiveness, the hope and the love of a God, I now call Father.
It did remind me of my first works. It reminded me of the way I felt the first day I met Jesus. It reminded me that “they” need to have a song, a moment to remember when they first met our incredible savior. It will be a different but similar song sung in another language. It will be new to them, and old to the next generation. But, it will declare in their heart what some of these old songs declared in mine.
I can’t wait to sing a new song with other siblings in the faith next week on a day of worship. That new song will be an old song in 10 years and will remind me of what God did for me way back when. But today, I remember through some old sweet songs, my first works…the sweetness of a Savior who left Heaven to pay a horrible price for my healing and forgiveness. I am fed with a new strength for my next mission oversees. A memory of the reason I do what I do.
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