JEMS is in the process of preparing their summer missions teams for service in Brazil and Peru. Please pray for the workers as they train together with Pastor John.
Mission Valley Free Methodist Church (San Gabriel, CA) team will be serving from July 29 to July 16 in São José dos Campos, Brazil and in Lima, Peru.
L-R: Constantino "Tino" Gabrie, Anthony "Tony" Gabrie, Sam Kim, Koh Ikeda (team leader)
Pastor John conducting training with the Mission Valley Free Methodist team:
JEMS South America Department Team will be serving from June 28 to July 17 in the cities of Presidente Prudente and Pompéia, Brazil. If you are interested in financially supporting this team, please visit their JEMS support-raising webpage.
Clockwise from top left: Holly Yamagata (team leader, SF State and LA Holiness Church), Derek See (SF State and Cumberland Presbyterian Church, SF), Jacky Guan (SF State and San Francisco Evangelical Free Church) and Jonathan Li (UC Riverside and Grace Evangelical Free Church of San Francisco).
Please pray as efforts are being made to confirm a third team from a Los Angeles Brazilian Church who are being recruited by JEMS to serve with Brazilian Nikkei working in Toyohashi Japan. That project will take place during the second and third weeks of August.