In October of last year I was blessed with the opportunity to be on a radio program called “Heart For Missions“. HFM is a part of the radio ministry at Calvary Chapel Merritt Island. I have never been on the radio before so this was very exciting for me. In February of this year the program aired and I’m stoked to be able to share it with you here.

I was interviewed by Patricia Spangler, who did an incredible Job of making me feel comfortable throughout the whole process. She clearly has a heart for missions and for getting different missionary stories out for people to hear. HFM’s purpose is: “Our prayer is that you are touched by each 15 minute interview of how ordinary people are reaching a lost and dying world.”

In other words, the show aims to present missionaries as ordinary people and to do away with the idea that God only calls “extraordinary” people into missions (in my words not hers). I love this because it is exactly our heart. The reality is anyone can serve God on the mission field if they’ll make themselves available to the Lord. So many people have come to Revae and I saying “I could never do what you do”. Our response is always the same, “there is nothing special about us. You can do it because Christ in you is the source of strength. The real question is ‘will you do it?’”

Needless to say, I was more than blessed to be interviewed by Patricia. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I think it went really well. While I thought we might talk more about “what” we do, we actually spent more time discussing “how” we do it. Specifically the topics of enduring trials and spiritual warfare. My hope is that through this interview someone will be encouraged that they can serve the Lord on the mission field and will take the leap of faith!

Here’s the 15 minute interview, I hope you enjoy it. Listen Here

Jaco has two faces. What seems like a little beach town by day has another side to it by night. As restaurants and shops close, bars and brothels begin to open and the town takes on a new look once sunlight fades into darkness. A darkness that offers people the opportunity to do things they wouldn’t do in the day time. Little do they realize that it will lead them down a slippery slope to destruction.

Think about it… darkness is the absence of light. It also describes the spiritual atmosphere surrounding Jaco. To put it bluntly, people don’t come to Jaco to find Jesus.

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One of the things that we have noticed is how difficult it is for kids in Jaco to stay in school. There are a lot of reasons for this. For one, many of them don’t get very much support at home. Jaco is filled with broken families. Another reason is finances.

In order for kids to attend public school they have to buy uniforms and a huge load of school supplies. By the time all is said and done, a family has to spend over one hundred dollars on each of their kids just to send them to public school. To make matters worse, it has to all be purchased before they can begin attending. When the average income is about $1.50 an hour, these expenses can really hurt. Sadly, some kids aren’t able to go to school because of this.

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One of the best things that we get to do is baptisms. I love it when people come into a personal relationship with Jesus and profess it publicly by being baptized. It is such a profound thing for both the person being baptized and the person performing the baptism.

In February, we had our first baptism of the year and it was a blast! We were blessed to baptize 8 people with over 60 people attending to show their support! It was a very special afternoon for all of us!

You can see more photos from the baptism here.

Every year we are blessed to host short term mission teams. We love hosting these teams because they have a huge impact on people. They impact the community, the church and those who are on the trip. We have seen God use them in mighty ways!

We are blessed to host Truth Point Church as our first short term mission team of 2012. They will be doing VBS for the kids, evening outreaches to those on the streets, and some small work projects to bless some local families. Please be praying for us all over the next week.

Here is a link to see photos of all we do throughout the week. I will update it regularly so check it often. Here’s the link for the photos.

Below is a short drama that they performed during the first VBS. It is a funny drama that tries to teach the seriousness of sin. The sign on the chair says “Do Not Touch”. At the end of the drama they reveal that the inside of the sign says “sin”. The point? If you mess around with sin, you’ll get stuck in it! I hope you enjoy it!

I just posted about our annual Christmas Outreach over at CC Jaco’s blog…

December 10th was a big day for CCJ. That is the day that we hosted our 7th annual Christmas Outreach. For the last seven years we have been working in one of the poorer neighborhoods called INVU.

That is where our ministry and CCJ began. We also host a weekly Kids Club in this neighborhood on Saturday mornings.

To continue reading and to see more pics visit our church blog here.