June 2016 Official Newsletter!!

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Hello! 

I have been very busy with amazing things this spring. 

I hope that the new life that surrounds you highlights the new life that our

 Lord and Savior has given you.

I’ve been busy learning more Chinese, teaching biology, training and teaching women in Flourish, working with youth group girls, introducing my city to friends, planting flowers, and working with students in our trafficking prevention program.

I recently, learned how to play the famous Chinese game: majiang. It looks so complicated but once you have learned it, you realize that it is a lot like Rummicube.

Working with the Shine School Program English Corner, has proved to be a lot of fun as well as very rewarding. The kids are very receptive and the teachers are glad that WE are talking to them about hard issues.

I decided that I would teach Biology again next year, but May marked the end of this years term.

I gave Flourish graduation certificates to the girls from my home school co-op who participated over the course of this year.

We also had a graduation of Flourish leaders in April and it was a fabulous time of good food and good conversation.

I got to introduce my city to one of my best friends early this year. 

It is always a privilege to show my world to my loved ones. 

Feel free to visit anytime.

Please continue to lift me and these works up.

In my printed and mailed hard copy version of this letter I stated that I would be in South Dakota and Nebraska this summer. I have to apologize to those of you who were counting on that time with me. 

Some things came up that changed my plans. 

Know that when I am available to sit down with you in South Dakota or Nebraska I will let you know. If you would like to know more information regarding these change of plans please email me at: denisejasmer@outlook.com

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 March 2015 Newsletter

(Written in January 2015)

Praise the Lord that my season of waiting for something to occur is over. I have been on a whirlwind of activity. Currently, the end of January, we are in the middle of a fabulous session of Shine. There are 8 young Chinese women and 2 foreign women who are participating in this session. We are already seeing some deep heart work happening. Thank you for your support and thoughts for my work as well as for these women. By the time you are reading this, I hope that I will have traveled to a border city to train several women both nationals and expatriates. Plus, there is a strong possibility that I will have also traveled to Vietnam to get trained how to facilitate a program called Flourish. One that is similar to Shine but designed for more rural areas. All this traveling and training is very exciting. Fear Not however that I have forsaken the Prevention work. It is still very heavy on my heart and I have high hopes that I will get to go and teach at a school in March and especially in April. 

I know that my last newsletter was somewhat vague and I also know how irritating that can be. I am still not able to discuss the situation behind it all but I want you to know that my heart is still very much engaged to the ministry before me. If and when anything does seem to be changing I will be notifying you all and asking for your thoughts regarding it all.  Waiting is hard but the rewards of it are very great.

I took and passed my exam to be given a Chinese driver’s license and this upcoming weekend will be my first outing by car. I am frankly frightened. But I know that my faith in the Father is strong because I am going to do it. Hooray!! I went to the rental agency this afternoon and answered all their questions. The very concerned owner wanted to know if I was English or not. When I informed him that I was American he became much more at ease and proceeded to tell me that he was very glad because in England they drive on the other side of the road. I then understood his previous concern. 

So as I embark on this new exciting new driving adventure please continue to ask Father to protect me and those around me. Please ask for the women who I have taught and trained that His power would be upon them as they teach and train others! 

Myanmar 2014

So I have been to Myanmar and back.

We watched from the sky as we landed and were fairly certain that we would be like the city mouse goes to the country. There were no tall buildings. Nothing to indicate that we were in a metropolitan area.  But once we got on the ground and entered the city the massive traffic jams cured us of any country expectations. 

We desended from the plane to the amazing view of Air Force One. It was just a plane. But a huge white mechanical genius with the big blue letters spelling THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA followed by the Red White and Blue. It was breath taking. Being the only American on the plane from China to Yangon I felt almost like royalty. Perhaps we would see Him. Of course we did not. In fact His presence in the city caused traffic to be blocked off and detoured in such a way that I actually began to feel embarrassed that such a fuss was being caused by my head of state. 

Saturday, the first full day in Myanmar was spent shopping. We trucked ourselves down to the gem market and some gems were purchased. We got to meet the seller who sells Eden many of their jewels. It was really cool. Of course every sapphire or ruby or fire opal that I asked to see were in the thousands of dollars. I consoled myself by congratulating myself that I have good taste.  We got to meet a monkey at one of the churches in downtown Yangon. 

Sunday, we had fellowship in the afternoon. It was a new place that has been gradually growing and was held in a small apartment. It was a very charismatic group that met with several healings as well as many words of wisdom spoken for many there.  

Monday, we began to teach Shine at 10am. We had expected to have 6 participants. Three women wanting to be trained as facilitators and three as participants. In the way that only Father can do things we arrived Monday morning to find 10 participants. Which was the exact number of gifts I had packed for each session. Hooray for His Plan. Some of the teaching we had to change due to cultural differences and or educational levels. 

Tuesday, two of the women who attended on Monday were ill. So from Tuesday on we had 8 women that we taught. We had four days to go through all eight sessions and we succeeded. Each session has a special gift at the end. On day's gift is usually a letter that tells them what potential we have seen shining from them. Because many of the women could not read we tried to give them tangible gifts that would have some significance to the sessions. So instead of writing them each a letter this time we painted them a picture with one word on it.  

Please lift these women up as they go forward in sharing what they learned from Shine with other women. 

P.M.-her favorite session was: My Potential is Limitless.

W.M.-her favorite session was: My Decisions determine my Destiny

D.D.-her favorite session was:My Life has a Purpose

L.S.-her favorite session was: My Life has a Purpose

T.T.-she didn't have a favorite session.

M.A.- her favorite session was: You are One of a Kind

S.T.-her favorite session was: My Decisions determine my Destiny

J.J.-her favorite session was:You are Valuable

There were 10 people groups represented at our Shine Graduation, including Kalinda, our Chinese helpers, and myself. 

Thank you for your petitions for me while I was there, I know that your faithfulness helped me greatly. I was seriously exhausted once returning home due to the intense ministry that was undertaken. I would be glad to share more details one on one in person via Skype or Face Time or via email. Your support and love is felt. Thank you!