Updates from our Ministry Partner in Hungary!

Check out this video from our Hungary Ministry Partner, Zsuzsa, to learn more about the work being done in the country. 

Praying for the Upcoming Burundi Trip

As our team prepares to travel to Burundi next week, please join us in praying for the trip.

JFM Prepares for Hungary Trip!

With the dog days of summer upon us, Jackson Free Methodist is starting to look forward to the months ahead. On October 10th, there will be a small team departing for Budapest, Hungary to visit with missionaries Katie and Larry Winckle, as well as visiting with local missions’ leadership.

One of the Winckle’s original objectives in Hungary was to begin sustainable church planting by creating areas of worship, creating a thriving spiritual community, and to begin to transition this over to local spiritual leaders. One of the fruits of their labor throughout their time in Hungary has been their involvement in the Set Free Movement and their connection with Zsuzsi McNamara.

The Set Free Movement is an upstream mission focusing on preventing human trafficking through tireless efforts of educating vulnerable women and children. Zsuzsi is responsible for leading the Set Free Movement in Hungary and currently works at children’s homes, schools, prisons, and a variety of other settings to educate vulnerable populations and to create a strong community that is resilient to human trafficking.

This will be JFM’s first time sending a team to Hungary to be a part of these missions and the objective of the trip will be to continue to build and deepen relationships with local leadership, learn from the teams on the ground, and to better understand how JFM can sustainably edify these teams spiritually, emotionally, physically, and financially.

Some of the highlights of the tentative trip will be partaking in the Walk for Freedom event to bring more awareness to human trafficking, meeting with the Budapest team, meeting with Set Free Team in Pécs, and visiting a children’s home in Gyór!

What an incredible night of worship, fellowship, food and FUNdraising for JFM! 

On June 26th, the Global Outreach Team hosted (along with donors) a family friendly night to learn more about Global Missions and to raise funds for the three ministry trips planned this year. 

1.Burundi: helping with the medical clinic, grand opending of the maternity ward and VBS in Burenza. Team of 11 are planning to be in Burundi August 11-21. 

2. Hungary: working with JFM's ministry partners Larry and Katie Winckles and Zsuzsi McNamara with the Set Free Movement and Human Trafficking. This is the first ministry trip by JFM to Hungary since we started sponsoring this mission 20+ years ago! Ministry trip is planned for tenative October. 

3. Honduras: helping with church planting for the Garifuna population along the coastline in Honduras. Ministry trip is planned for tenative September. 

Take a look at some of the highlights from Misson Mania-Engage 2021!

Ridge Bollheimer in auctioneer mode and raising money for missions

The evening was filled with a silent and live auction, entertainment for the kids, worship music, exceptional food and ice cream for everyone. The total amount raised for the evening was $19,816! Funds raised will go towards the ministry costs and travel for trips planned to Burenza, Hungary and Honduras.

Pastor Jason, John Nally and Kyle Bartholomew sharing time of education and excitement for Burundi, Hungary and Honduras 

Any age is a fanstastic age to be apart of Global Missions

Stephen and Paula Ziegenfuss leading worship inbetween auctions and wrapping up the evening on a high note

Pastor Tim engaging the attendees during dinner

 

Carnitas, rice and beans-flavors of Honduras with Scott Weaver and Sharon Watters, members of the Global Outreach Team

Linda Grimm, Jennifer Sawle and Mandy Trierweiler, volunteers of the evening who each plan on attending a ministry trip this year.

Thank you to everyone who came out, supported that night in person or online! A huge thank you to Pat Byler, member of the Go Team for orchestrating, all the donors, volunteers and participants. But lastly, let us rejoice with and always in Jesus-when He enters the room-GREAT things happen. THANK YOU for helping to invest in Christ-Centered partnerships globally and to cultivate changed lives by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

If you missed the event and would still like to donate, please follow this link:

https://www.jfm.org/give and select "Engage 2021".  

T-shirts are still available as well!

COME READY TO BID!!! Just think of the fun you can experience IF you win the bid on the following Live Auction Items: * 200,000 air miles (that equals a trip to Hawaii) * Garden Tour of the world Renown Wilkin Gardens and lunch for up to 10 * Golf for 4 at Pebble Beach....that is on a Golf Simulator * Kayak Tour on Clark Lake includes lunch and dinner * Dot Wolfe's amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies * A weeks vacation in a Lake Columbia Home * All American 4th of July Basket includes GC to Beach Bar & Luceros Restaurants * One Hour Airplane Ride for one, over Jackson! * Dinner & Dessert Cruise on Lake Columbia * 2 - Second Row seats to the MERCY ME Concern Jackson County Fair! And there's MORE. Discount suggested Donation $15 pp $35 for family gets you Food, Fun and right to Bid! on Live and SILENT AUCTION ITEMS: - Jim Peterson Wooden Coffee Table - Turkey Hunting at Lamoreaux's - Vermeulan's $500 Gift Certificate - Game Night with the Winckles (expires soon) - Painting and Painting Lessons - Crank N' Go rotation & oil change - Hand made Lap quilt - Variety of Baked goods including Glutn Free! - Several Theme Baskets - Misc. items...you won't want to miss out on!

Did you say Swiss Alps of Africa?

Burundi is a place that most go to serve knowing there is a real need. Malnutrition, disease, poor living conditions, and overall a third world way of life. Burundi is also known as the Swiss Alps of Africa, with lush mountains that have farm fields staggered in rows making their way to the top. Coffee and tea plantations, the freshest fruit you will ever eat, and fish that’s caught hours before being cooked to perfection. Quite the dichotomy we have going here you may say, but these are all things you will see in Burundi and yet the one thing we haven’t talked about that trumps all else is the people. 

Going to Burundi will be one of the most polarizing things you will ever do. You will meet shopworkers selling clothing hanging from scraps of wood, mothers working fields with no more than a shirt, skirt, and her hands. A ten-year-old boy who fills potholes in the road with dirt, possibly making a few cents in the process. Younger kids filling in while their moms are away feeding their even younger sister the only solid meal they will have that week, maybe sneaking a spoon or two for themselves.  But with all this hardship, there is much more that could be said, the people of Burundi are happy. Not happy because of the hardship but happy for everything they do have.

Now there you stand emerged in this different world, everything that was normal now a bit abnormal and you’re asking yourself how this can be, and how can I share in this same joy? As with many who have gone before, ticket in one hand, and bug repellent in the other you go seeking to serve and you will. As many have found no one leaves without thinking they were the ones who were served. Even better said BLESSED.   

So, what do I do?

• GO, go to Burundi. The deadline is June 20th.
• Serve the team by going to the Mission mania event on June 26th at 6 pm, JFM grounds.
• Pray, Pray, Pray. Pray there are no travel restrictions, pray for safe travel, pray for a fresh perspective, pray God moves in God-sized ways.

MISSIONS MANIA Engage 2021 June 26th @ 6pm

 

You are invited to an amazing, FUNdraising night of MISSION MANIA for Global Missions on Saturday, June 26^th at 6:00pm

This will be a night of worship music, fantastic culinary cuisine of carnitas (similar to pulled pork) paired with summer favorites like ice cream and shaved ice. The ever-popular bouncy house for the kids will be up too for enjoyment!

Excitement is brewing over the live and silent auctions! Here is a sneak peek of some of the auction items to bid on:

* One hour private plane ride

* Pontoon ride at Clark Lake with Beach Bar Pizza and dessert

* One week lake house vacation at Lake Columbia

* Vermeulen’s gift certificate up to $500

* Specialty pies and cookies

* Art/paint lessons AND artwork

and many MANY more.

 Suggested donation for fundraiser entry  is $20 per person or $50 per family is the suggested price. RSVP to the event please click here https://jfm.breezechms.com/form/MissionMania

 Jackson Free Methodist is partnered with four different missions around the globe and three ministry trips are being planned and prayed for in 2021 to Burundi, Honduras and Hungary.

The MISSION MANIA evening will go to support the ENGAGE 2021 Team Ministry Projects. ALL proceeds from this event will go towards:

*Construction project in Honduras

*Medical and VBS team in Burundi

*Human Trafficking Prevention in Hungary

 Can’t make it to MISSION MANIA but would still like to financially participate? Please send your donations to JFM with “Engage 2021” in the memo line on your check or you can give electronically  under the Go Tab at JFMChurch.org and select “Engage 2021”.

Please pray for our Global Ministry partners for changed lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!

Pastor Daisy in Honduras

 

Burundian children eating Busoma after VBS

Hungarian Ministry Partners serving their community