Dear friends and family,
I have come to a decision to leave YWAM for a time to rest with Jesus. As I have been resting life altered its direction towards college at Azusa Pacific University. I have been praying about taking time out of missions to get educated at University of the Nations but Azusa Pacific had made its imprint on me by its education and location.
I have been looking through the lens God has given me to see his wisdom and insight into my life. I am certain my life is not my own, my life belongs to advancing Yahweh's' Kingdom and extending the identity of being Yahweh's sons and daughters to others around me. The church is my focus so I am looking forward to understanding this dynamic community and encouraging us as a community to be more focused unto Christ. God helped me to see the people I look up to in the church are educated, have doctor degrees. No, its not the degree but his glory that makes the change in our small world but the understand, wisdom, knowledge does help push us into a healthy, new direction.
Studying at Azusa Pacific will challenge my understandings of Christ and the church for the better. I am looking forward to being edified and educated by the Holy Spirit as I am studying at Azusa Pacific. I would like to study one of these subjects in college: Theology, Film, or Journalism. I could be surprised with a new found love for a different subject but I don't see that happening. Who knows tho?
This was a difficult decision to make because the sacrifice was the missionary-traveling lifestyle. The sacrifice was not seeing my family/friends in YWAM:Boston face to face as often as I would like. The other sacrifice which was the most difficult was letting go of living and reaching out in Boston for a while. God gave me a heart that was committed to the work in Boston and the people in Boston. I will miss it all. I know it will always be there and I will be able to go back when I am finished with school but I will still miss being in it. The community I had at YWAM will never be the same again, the identity will change as people come and go. So even when I go back it would not be the same. That is okay tho.
Christ is our/my focus. I am looking forward to the change Christ will make in all of us. We will never be the same again because of Christ's finger upon our hearts.
SO!
I am closing the blog Infect Boston but the infection Christ will bring in Boston will continue and will be expressed in new ways by others touched by his glory.
I am happy we can all be friends after this war in our world. For eternity we can all hang out! Always remember Christ is supreme and nothing can over stand him and his ways.
May The Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
14For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:14-21
Thank you for following the small glimpse of Christ that I recorded.
LOVE YOU!
Jordan.
THAT'S A WRAP!
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
TAIWAN Vol.3
Hi Peeps,
We are starting a new school today. Last week was great, we saw many come to know Jesus and saw lives changed. We have the opportunity to share our lives and Christ with the students in the schools.
Bob has been doing great connecting with the students. Its awesome to see him interact with them
TTYL.
We are starting a new school today. Last week was great, we saw many come to know Jesus and saw lives changed. We have the opportunity to share our lives and Christ with the students in the schools.
Bob has been doing great connecting with the students. Its awesome to see him interact with them
TTYL.
Friday, July 29, 2011
TAIWAN Vol. 2
Dear Friends and Family,
I am laying in bed, about to fall asleep. I am thinking about my day, thinking about the great things I have seen and thinking about the greater things to come. I will be teaching Taiwanese students, loving them, sharing Jesus with them, developing a friendship with 100 students(WHAT!?). I have seen 20 plus people accept Jesus into their hearts. I have seen lives changed and the world made a better place because the spirit that lived in Jesus lives in them now. I have a team of people who support each others, care for each other. I am viewed funny, cool, insightful, a servant, and loving to them. I am traveling, doing things that not many people do, nor are seeing in their lives. You know what is crazy?
I can't get satisfied by any of it. I still feel insignificant.
At the end of the day whom defines me is Christ Jesus. At the end of my day Jesus is my best friend and whom I look forward to lying next to before I fall asleep at night. He is the last person I long to talk to before I go to sleep. I love him.
Its true I get distracted by my work and forget Jesus sometimes but I quickly realize it. Come back to him to receive his affection, affirmation, and much more from Him. He is so faithful and jealous for us, I love it! Having a jealous God for me is the best thing because it shows he is faithful, loving, longing for us to know him and care for him. Love him equally as he loves/cares for us. :) He puts a smile on my face. I understand that jealously of God and I am grate full to have a jealous God. Oprah, you don't know what your talking about!(I have sorrow/compassion for you Oprah. Love you girl but your views are wacked!).....
I never thought I would write something about Oprah. I never knew I would understand the love of God for me. I am slowly understanding it and it makes me so grate full.
He makes me feel satisfied and significant. He is greater than I.
I must keep my focus and identity on him, the author of all creatures in heaven and under.
Love you Jesus. :)
I am laying in bed, about to fall asleep. I am thinking about my day, thinking about the great things I have seen and thinking about the greater things to come. I will be teaching Taiwanese students, loving them, sharing Jesus with them, developing a friendship with 100 students(WHAT!?). I have seen 20 plus people accept Jesus into their hearts. I have seen lives changed and the world made a better place because the spirit that lived in Jesus lives in them now. I have a team of people who support each others, care for each other. I am viewed funny, cool, insightful, a servant, and loving to them. I am traveling, doing things that not many people do, nor are seeing in their lives. You know what is crazy?
I can't get satisfied by any of it. I still feel insignificant.
At the end of the day whom defines me is Christ Jesus. At the end of my day Jesus is my best friend and whom I look forward to lying next to before I fall asleep at night. He is the last person I long to talk to before I go to sleep. I love him.
Its true I get distracted by my work and forget Jesus sometimes but I quickly realize it. Come back to him to receive his affection, affirmation, and much more from Him. He is so faithful and jealous for us, I love it! Having a jealous God for me is the best thing because it shows he is faithful, loving, longing for us to know him and care for him. Love him equally as he loves/cares for us. :) He puts a smile on my face. I understand that jealously of God and I am grate full to have a jealous God. Oprah, you don't know what your talking about!(I have sorrow/compassion for you Oprah. Love you girl but your views are wacked!).....
I never thought I would write something about Oprah. I never knew I would understand the love of God for me. I am slowly understanding it and it makes me so grate full.
He makes me feel satisfied and significant. He is greater than I.
I must keep my focus and identity on him, the author of all creatures in heaven and under.
Love you Jesus. :)
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
TAIWAN
Dear Friends and Family,
We are in Taiwan. We are presently practicing our dances and dramas.
Our housing is awesome. We have bucket showers, beds that are foams on the floor, amazing food, and a alley to walk down that looks like its from a murder mystery film.
The whole travel experience took 32 hours. Three plane rides and three tasty meals on the plane. At the end of the whole experience my knees where killing me, my butt was numb, and I felt sick for a lil moment.
We landed in Tokyo Japan! Loved it....nothing happened while we were there but I stared out of the air imaging what was beyond the horizon. I listened to Underoath which is a band I wanted to listen to in Tokyo Japan because of their ambient sound. Check that off the bucket list. :D
Ya we are ready to love Jesus and the people here.
Peace out. Pray for us.
We are in Taiwan. We are presently practicing our dances and dramas.
Our housing is awesome. We have bucket showers, beds that are foams on the floor, amazing food, and a alley to walk down that looks like its from a murder mystery film.
The whole travel experience took 32 hours. Three plane rides and three tasty meals on the plane. At the end of the whole experience my knees where killing me, my butt was numb, and I felt sick for a lil moment.
We landed in Tokyo Japan! Loved it....nothing happened while we were there but I stared out of the air imaging what was beyond the horizon. I listened to Underoath which is a band I wanted to listen to in Tokyo Japan because of their ambient sound. Check that off the bucket list. :D
Ya we are ready to love Jesus and the people here.
Peace out. Pray for us.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Here is a encouraging story that I received. Artists in Christian Testimony is a ministry that is dedicated to binding Arts and Missions together.
Artists in Christian Testimony actually exists to facilitate the important role of the artist in ministry. But many of the church leaders still wonder what that is. In talking with Byron Spradlin recently he pointed out the following realities:
One, the best word in the Bible for what we know today as artist is the term "craftsman" (e.g. exodus 31, exodus 35) the word in Hebrew simply means "someone unusually wise at imaginative design and expression." This term craftsman really can include all Bible of the various categories of the arts we know today (including music, storytelling, drama, dance, and even film and technology, and literary arts). Every time you see these people in the operation in scripture you see them involved in creating environments where finite people are stepping into environments (designed by artists) wherein they meet with the transcendent God. Spradlin underscored the purpose of the arts as laid out in scripture: "to lead the human community and individual into touching the transcendent realities of life and God." From that we can see that God intended the artistically enabled person to actually be the facilitator for all of human community in putting handles on non-material but real transcendent things like beauty and goodness and love and kindness and appreciation and honor and reverence and worship.
Also he points out that when you take a hard look at the scriptures you will realize that really what the arts are is the imaginative rearrangement of human metaphors, symbols and expressions. Spradlin pointed out, "Isn’t that exactly what a worship service is made of?" We basically take human symbols and metaphors loaded with biblical truths and we enter into practices of activities that in themselves are not transcendent but in participating in them with faith focused on God, God actually comes to us and interacts with us and our lives are changed. That is also what we do when we pray by our self or have devotions by our self or sing a song by our self.
The artist is absolutely essential to human flourishing because the artist puts handles on realities that are not material but are absolutely essential for our life. So really the artist is much more than an entertainer, much more than some kind of solo critic commenting on culture. The artist actually reflects the heart of the people and creates those contexts – songs, poems, pictures, stories, films dances – that literally create envelopes wherein we hold these transcendent realities and interact with them.
These reasons lay out some of the expressions of why artistically capacity people are absolutely essential in church leadership, in missions leadership and in the Christian community engaging the mainstream community and the cultures in which we all live.
Artistic expression and artistic specialists "human expression specialists or imagination specialists” were designed by God. This is not something the church or others even have the option to vote on. God intended these specialized people to help facilitate the rest of humanity in first of all interacting with him and then secondly embracing and interacting with the transcendent realities that make our lives more fully human.
Artists in Christian Testimony actually exists to facilitate the important role of the artist in ministry. But many of the church leaders still wonder what that is. In talking with Byron Spradlin recently he pointed out the following realities:
One, the best word in the Bible for what we know today as artist is the term "craftsman" (e.g. exodus 31, exodus 35) the word in Hebrew simply means "someone unusually wise at imaginative design and expression." This term craftsman really can include all Bible of the various categories of the arts we know today (including music, storytelling, drama, dance, and even film and technology, and literary arts). Every time you see these people in the operation in scripture you see them involved in creating environments where finite people are stepping into environments (designed by artists) wherein they meet with the transcendent God. Spradlin underscored the purpose of the arts as laid out in scripture: "to lead the human community and individual into touching the transcendent realities of life and God." From that we can see that God intended the artistically enabled person to actually be the facilitator for all of human community in putting handles on non-material but real transcendent things like beauty and goodness and love and kindness and appreciation and honor and reverence and worship.
Also he points out that when you take a hard look at the scriptures you will realize that really what the arts are is the imaginative rearrangement of human metaphors, symbols and expressions. Spradlin pointed out, "Isn’t that exactly what a worship service is made of?" We basically take human symbols and metaphors loaded with biblical truths and we enter into practices of activities that in themselves are not transcendent but in participating in them with faith focused on God, God actually comes to us and interacts with us and our lives are changed. That is also what we do when we pray by our self or have devotions by our self or sing a song by our self.
The artist is absolutely essential to human flourishing because the artist puts handles on realities that are not material but are absolutely essential for our life. So really the artist is much more than an entertainer, much more than some kind of solo critic commenting on culture. The artist actually reflects the heart of the people and creates those contexts – songs, poems, pictures, stories, films dances – that literally create envelopes wherein we hold these transcendent realities and interact with them.
These reasons lay out some of the expressions of why artistically capacity people are absolutely essential in church leadership, in missions leadership and in the Christian community engaging the mainstream community and the cultures in which we all live.
Artistic expression and artistic specialists "human expression specialists or imagination specialists” were designed by God. This is not something the church or others even have the option to vote on. God intended these specialized people to help facilitate the rest of humanity in first of all interacting with him and then secondly embracing and interacting with the transcendent realities that make our lives more fully human.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Dear friends and family,
J.G. is changing lives. We are seeing teenagers turn to God for affirmation, love, forgiveness, hope, and someone to place their trust in. Its been a great sight to see teens reach for the love of God and encounter Jesus.
One night we talked about belief. That our lack of belief in God's characters and abilities is hindering us from growing closer to Him.
We as a group put aside our disbelief.
We were free to surrender, worship, unashamedly express our love for Jesus. Some ran, some danced, some sang, some simply sat in His presence.
God gave one girl forgiveness for her father for calling her fat and walking out on her. She has been absent of a father for many years but God came to her in the form of a Dad.
The students were moved by God to a new style of prayer. They named it "Prayer-Bombing". All of the guys were so over whelmed by Gods presence that they would run up to staff members and start praying for them!
It was a great victory to see students break free and express their love for God with freedom.
There are 68 other students that have stories of God moving deeply in their hearts. Its been full filling to serve and give life away to young people. J.G. is changing lives for eternity.
Thanks for reading!
Jordan
J.G. is changing lives. We are seeing teenagers turn to God for affirmation, love, forgiveness, hope, and someone to place their trust in. Its been a great sight to see teens reach for the love of God and encounter Jesus.
One night we talked about belief. That our lack of belief in God's characters and abilities is hindering us from growing closer to Him.
We as a group put aside our disbelief.
We were free to surrender, worship, unashamedly express our love for Jesus. Some ran, some danced, some sang, some simply sat in His presence.
God gave one girl forgiveness for her father for calling her fat and walking out on her. She has been absent of a father for many years but God came to her in the form of a Dad.
The students were moved by God to a new style of prayer. They named it "Prayer-Bombing". All of the guys were so over whelmed by Gods presence that they would run up to staff members and start praying for them!
It was a great victory to see students break free and express their love for God with freedom.
There are 68 other students that have stories of God moving deeply in their hearts. Its been full filling to serve and give life away to young people. J.G. is changing lives for eternity.
Thanks for reading!
Jordan
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Dear Family,
I went out to shared the love of God to Boston. I was shared with many but many refused Gods grace at that moment.
I prayed for a man who was homeless. He told me "you can share with me if you give me a dollar." I quickly asked people for a dollar and I got three dollars from a women passing by. I walked up to the man and said "Not only did I get you a dollar but three, now I will share with you the love of God." Before I gave him the money I began to share but I quickly realized this man did not need someone to preach to him, he needed love! So I began praying for him. I wasn't alone my friend Luke was praying for him too. Luke got a word for him and shared it with him then I got a word to share with him. Luke and I together encouraged our brother in Christ. Together, as a whole message, this is what was said to the man
"God loves you, he wants you to know your are his child, his son and you can share with him all your anger, all your disappointments with life because he can handle it. He can handle all your junk. He loves you."
We asked him can you sense something, he said yes. We quickly told him that it was God's presence then gave him the three dollars. God so loved him in this moment. This man needed the presences of God, not the sharing of the gospel and I am grate full to be apart of giving him a piece of Jesus.
Kyle is another person I spoke to whom received Christ again into him heart. I told him the story of God and how Jesus wants a relationship with us. He said I am not ready for that and I need to work on myself more before I can go to God. I told him about some darkness in my life that God had worked out of me in the last 6 months. I told him knowing God more and giving God more is not about saying more "yes", "amens", and all that but resting in his presence because only the presence of God can change a humans heart.
I love sharing the heart of God with people on the streets.
I am personally doing good. Enjoying life.
Thanks you for walking with me.
Love you.
Go to http://www.youtube.com/dropraisegogo
I went out to shared the love of God to Boston. I was shared with many but many refused Gods grace at that moment.
I prayed for a man who was homeless. He told me "you can share with me if you give me a dollar." I quickly asked people for a dollar and I got three dollars from a women passing by. I walked up to the man and said "Not only did I get you a dollar but three, now I will share with you the love of God." Before I gave him the money I began to share but I quickly realized this man did not need someone to preach to him, he needed love! So I began praying for him. I wasn't alone my friend Luke was praying for him too. Luke got a word for him and shared it with him then I got a word to share with him. Luke and I together encouraged our brother in Christ. Together, as a whole message, this is what was said to the man
"God loves you, he wants you to know your are his child, his son and you can share with him all your anger, all your disappointments with life because he can handle it. He can handle all your junk. He loves you."
We asked him can you sense something, he said yes. We quickly told him that it was God's presence then gave him the three dollars. God so loved him in this moment. This man needed the presences of God, not the sharing of the gospel and I am grate full to be apart of giving him a piece of Jesus.
Kyle is another person I spoke to whom received Christ again into him heart. I told him the story of God and how Jesus wants a relationship with us. He said I am not ready for that and I need to work on myself more before I can go to God. I told him about some darkness in my life that God had worked out of me in the last 6 months. I told him knowing God more and giving God more is not about saying more "yes", "amens", and all that but resting in his presence because only the presence of God can change a humans heart.
I love sharing the heart of God with people on the streets.
I am personally doing good. Enjoying life.
Thanks you for walking with me.
Love you.
Go to http://www.youtube.com/dropraisegogo
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