We’re All About Partnerships!
JungleMaster Ministries is all about partnerships, both at
home and in the jungle! Because of your partnership with us through your
prayers and financial support, we are able to partner with leaders in the
Amazon, training and equiping them to further God’s Kingdom within their own
communities and beyond. These leaders, in turn, are now beginning to multiply
their efforts by partnering with each other on various projects! Here are some
examples of how God has worked through these numerous partnerships in 2016.
Your gifts have allowed JungleMaster to partner with pastors
and leaders to enable them to attend the seminary in Nauta, Peru, Centro De
Capacitacion de Nauta. The first six of these graduated from seminary in 2016!
Your gifts have also allowed JungleMaster to come alongside
our cofraternity of pastors and leaders in the Amazon this year to assist their
churches in becoming legally registered with the Peruvian government. This
process took 1 ½ years, but was completed in October, just before the passing
of our director, Tom Clark. The legal recognition now protects these 22
churches from being shut down without warning and also makes them eligible for
government funding when they put on future training events. JungleMaster has also
been working with the 22 cofraternity member churches to come up with their own
plans for discipleship in their local areas. The pastors are setting goals and
working to achieve them, while JungleMaster is providing financial help and
encouragement. It is the vision of the local pastors to support each other in
building up the body of Christ, and it has been exciting to see these churches
come together to help each other complete various projects of their cloosing!
Six of the cofraternity churches are currently working together to rebuild a
church in the village of Mundial.
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| The new church in Mundial |
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| Our 6 seminary graduates! |
Because of your generous donations JungleMaster now has a
“new” boat with a 150 HP motor!! This boat is faster & safer, has an
on-board bathroom, and is cooler, due to an insulated roof. It not only helps
us transport people associated with our mission, but it also allows us to
parner with, and help other missions and missionaries by transporting them
safely, affordably, and reliably upriver to their ministry sites.
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| 150 HP motor |
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| Our new boat |
Through your partnership with us, JungleMaster was able to
help Marco, a local Peruvian missionary, transport supplies and gasoline so
that officials from the Minesterio de Educacion (education department) could
travel to the village of Nueva Union in the Urarina district to see the need
for a high school there. In January, our portable sawmill will be transported up
the Chambira River to the site where community members will build the new
school and also a dormitory (necessary for students who couldn’t otherwise
attend due to the up to 2-day commute time!) This project will be a partnership
between JungleMaster, the local church, a Peruvian Missionary, and the
government.
In June of this year, because of your support, JungleMaster was
able to partner with a team of future engineers from George Fox University.
Together, we researched the possibility of piloting a solar project at
JungleMaster’s mission house in Nauta. This group also was an encouragement to
the pastors and congregations of two villages up river.
So…THANK-YOU!!!
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| The George Fox University team |
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| The trip upriver to Nuevo Union |
Praises:
- For your continued support!
- The cofraternity members are working together to complete projects of their choosing!
- Our 22 member churches are now officially registered with the government!
- Six of our pastors/leaders graduated from seminary this year!
- We have a new boat!
- For our ability to help other missionaries!
In Other news:
This fall, Amy McGee attended a two-day conference in the
Dominican Republic. It was hosted by the organization Pure Freedom, founded by author
and public speaker Dannah Gresh. Pure Freedom teaches young girls about purity
and finding their value in the Lord. The conference dealt with Sexual theology,
healing, and fatherless families. It addressed how to help the young girls in
areas where sexual abuse, un-wed pregnancies, and broken families are a normal
way of life. Amy is excited to use this training in Nauta and in the river
communities to help young women heal from the devastating effects of this culture and to build closer
relationships with the Lord. Hopefully, it will also be helpful in
strengthening families in Peru.
Did You Know?
Carmen is active in ministry, as well! Before the McGee family
furlough, she was being trained to lead small groups of children during an on-going
Saturday kids’ program at their church in Nauta. Carmen gathers neighborhood
kids and puts on English classes for them, and she tutors teens who are taking
English at school. She also recently had the opportunity to read verses and do
riddles on a morning Christian radio program!
Prayer Requests:
- For the family of Tom Clark
- For the logistical adjustments that need to be made in order to continue effectively ministering to the leaders in the jungle without Tom
- For an easy transition in January back to life in Nauta for the McGee family
- For continued effective training and equipping of the local pastors
- For successful application of the principles learned by Amy at the Dannah Gresh conference
- For funds needed to build churches in the villages of Progreso and Prado, for the purchase of 2 chainsaws and a boat & motor for the cofraternity, and for the money to make needed upgrades to our mission house in Nauta
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