January 2016 Official Newsletter!!

It's 2016! Let's Communicate!

We live in the age of multi-faceted communication: Many of you have already let me know that you would prefer email but many of you I only have your mailing addresses and I want to continue to communicate well with you, my partners.Please help me tailor my communication to you. Do you prefer communicating with me via Email? Paper? Skype? Let me know! 

Want to know how to contact me?

I love hearing from you. Check out the information below, listing the ways I communicate across all media. It’s a new year, a new digital age, and a new time to be in fellowship across the world! Please make some time now to send me a note. I look forward to hearing from you soon!

THANK YOU for being a part of my ministry & support team! This “reminder” is designed so we can keep in touch with each other, so please send your news and requests. 

                  

Well you are currently on it. Http://denise-in-china.blogspot.com

 I have one creative writing one as well:  http://grandindependenceofthesoul.blogspot.com/










Skype Name: denise.jasmer







Email: denisejasmer@outlook.com



China mobile: +86 1838-712-0105

Facetime or IMessage: meiroujasmer@gmail.com

WeChat: denisejasmer



My Facebook is currently active but it is not an ideal way to communicate with me due to censorship laws here as well as the difficulty to login.

Thank you to those of you who have already taken the time to respond to this January newsletter and let me know what is going on in your family. It really helps me feel more connected to you all. 

Denise

My Homeschooling Co-op Biology Class and Flourish Class!!

Official December 2015 Newsletter!

As Christmas draws near I am impelled to contemplate my life. I love this life that I have been living. It hasn’t always been easy but it hasn’t been a torture chamber either. Father has grown me and molded me into a bit more like Him through it. Not that I have become like Him. Far from it-there is much more for Him to work out. 

I am very thankful for all the parts that you have all played in the journey. Your love and support of the burden and vision that Father has given me is humbling and overwhelming. For the last 6 years the support I have received from you has not only supported my daily life and schooling, but has also given scholarships to Permeate youth, given school scholarships to leprosy patients’ children and grandchildren, and have allowed many young women who used to be prostitutes attend the Shine program. 

Currently, my support level is sustaining my needs. However, I have been using my excess funds. What happened was that over the years I generally don’t spend as much as I have been given and so each year when some of my supporters have needed to put their funds elsewhere I haven’t felt any lack due to funds that have built up over the first few years. I

am very thankful for this situation but as of the beginning of June 2016 I need to increase my support about 500 US dollars a month.

From Sept 2014 to Sept 2015 I had a total giving of $33,990 USD from my total support base. Praise to the Father for his faithfulness to me! Broken down to a monthly average the result is: $2,832.50 USD. This does not cover my monthly expenses. If you want a break down of these expenses, email me at denisej@worksmail.net and I will send you the budget break down for Sept 2015-2016. If anyone is interested in increasing their monthly gift even by  ten or twenty dollars that would be very helpful. Please let me know if you would like removed from this mailing list as well.

This situation is not urgent but it is going to become a bigger issue the longer it takes to raise more and if it becomes a larger issue I will have to stop ministry and return to the States to more intentionally fund raise. 

I know that you all get many petitions for your generosity during Christmas time. I know that any additional funds I receive or do not receive this year is subject to Father’s will. Who gives His children all good things in accordance to His good and perfect will. I want to thank you for your love shown to me in your current and past support position.  Whether that is through physical gifts or through your prayers. Thank you and Merry Christmas! 

Official November 2015 Newsletter!

Grace, grace, God’s grace, grace that is greater than all our sin.~ Julia H Johnston 1911

Do you ever get tired of hearing about it? I am sure that I have before, but in my current season I cannot get enough of it. The reassurance that I do not need to strive to earn Father’s love and acceptance is life giving. Last week we sang a chorus of: Your Grace is Enough. I started to think about whether or not I would still worship and obey Him if the only good thing He gave me was my salvation. 

What about you?

There are many terrible things that happen in this world. Just think of how many have happened to you. On the other hand, there are also numerous joys. How many of these have happened to you just today?

His blessings abound. Perchance not perceived by us as miracles in the day to day, but truly they are just as much His grace to us as Christ’s death and resurrection. For we deserve none of it. First Corinthians 1:27 clearly states that Father uses us in spite of us. I can clearly testify to His grace and the fact that He continues to use me in spite of what a disaster I am. 

Current Testimony: My e-bike has been such a gift to me in so many ways. Recently,it has constantly given me reason to be thankful to Father for His grace and for the grace exhibited by others. 

I have left my keys in the trunk at least seven or eight times. How foolish. I haven’t learned from the first time? Each time I am convinced my bike will not be there once I return. Twice I returned to find my keys gone but the bike still there. Once it was missing, only to be found in a special safe place. Each time I am resorted to praise. This last time I felt impelled to tell you all about it. I only hope that I would still praise Him if I don’t find my bike ever again. Like my friend, Liz, who has had eight bikes locked up and safe stolen. Frustrated? Of course, by never forgetting that those bikes were not her’s to begin with, they were a gift from her Father. Do I keep not having my bike stolen because I have been wise and  smart and cautious? Obviously Not!! Does Liz keep getting her’s stolen because she is dumb and a terrible person? Certainly Not. We may live in a world that sometimes seems to operate on karma. But honestly, I am so glad that God doesn’t. 

He loves us too much to let us get what we deserve. And if that were only applied to heaven and hell it would be enough. But I am thankful that that would be too small a matter for such a great God. And so, He lavishes us with His special gifts. Like butterflies, e-bikes, sun showers, unexpected change in pockets, and random notes from good friends. 

Your grace is enough, Your grace is enough, Your grace is enough for me.~Matt Maher 2008