Mission, music and the Spirit

JEMS Team 1 in front of the Casa Rosada, Presidential Palace - Buenos Aires, Argentina

The 2013 JEMS South America missions team launched its ministry on Monday, June 24. Leaving Los Angeles International Airport, the team traveled to São Paulo, Brazil and then to Buenos Aires, Argentina. After one week of ministry in Argentina, the team returned to Brazil for a one-week, six-city gospel team ministry in the state of São Paulo.

The team took along with it three songs that were to be the basis of its ministry and core theme. The songs were "Set a Fire"

  

"Jesus, Lord of Heaven" 


and "Oceans".  

At various times during the first two weeks of our mission, these songs would come to speak so clearly to our hearts and into the hearts of those to whom we ministered. There were times that these songs so resonated within us that they would cause us to weep. 

While there was certainly a spiritual component to our ministry, there was also a deeply emotional one as well. There were moments that we ourselves were beseeching God to set a fire in our souls, to find a faith without limits and borders, and to understand that he was leading us to take courage and to walk on oceans. And this team responded to God's invitation and calling to be stretched and to grow into a ministry much larger than ourselves. 

I was so blessed to be able to be a part of the social and Spirit-filled dynamic of this team. This energy and emotion made this Argentina-Brazil team one of the best with whom I have been privileged to serve.