The final stretch!

Hello all!

I am happy to announce that on May 25th of this year, I will graduate the Redwood Emerging Leadership Network internship, and complete my studies at the North Coast Bible Institute. Although I am sad to leave, I am so overjoyed to stand at the finish line and see the fruit of God’s work. I am very blessed to say that God has made a tremendous impact on my life and on the lives of so many people around me through this program.   
Over the past two years I have served on staff at Eureka Faith Center church as a full time intern.  I served in a variety of areas for the first year, and was able to “bloom” where I was planted. During the first year, I held a Youth Worship night for all of the youth groups in Humbodlt, started a bible study at a local convalescent hospital, organized an interactive prayer seminar for a woman’s conference. During the second year I was able to specialize in the youth department and served as what might be considered an “Assistant youth pastor”. I spoke on Sundays about half of the time, and at least once a month on Tuesday nights. However, speaking was just a small part of my working with the youth. I also learned how to organize events, fundraisers, student retreats and filing cabinets. I learned how to function on absolutely no sleep, how to clean week-old soda spills and how to love a group of kids powerfully and unconditionally. But most of all, I learned that I am just a small piece of the transforming work that God desires to do in every youth group, every church and every community. 
As an intern, I have had the blessed opportunity to not only cultivate my skills as a minister, but to shape and form relationships that will last a life time.! I have worked alongside a staff that become more like a family, and ministered to a group of youth kids that I adopted as my own children. 
Looking back, I can say that I could not have done this without YOU.  I am tremendously blessed to have such a supportive environment. Your support enabled me to experience and be a part of a lasting, life changing impact . The purpose of this letter is to thank you for your support, and to ask for your continual support as I complete the program.   As my time as an intern comes to a close, I am needing more prayer and support than ever. I embark on a new adventure! And though it is exciting, it is unknown. Please pray for vision, encouragement and direction.
 In addition to prayer, I need financial support. I am  raising the last 1,000 dollars to pay for the final expenses of my internship.  God has been so faithful to provide the finances throughout these years, and I know that he will continue to make a way, if you can support in any way (even in exchange for work!) 

Thank you again for your love and encouragement.  I am now equipped to continue on in the service that God has set in front of me. I am no longer afraid of the unknown or the unpredictable. One of the coolest things about completing this internship, is that I am prepared to take a position as a full-time youth pastor, today. Two years ago, that would have definitely not been the case!   I am  SO excited to see what God has planned next, and I am thankful that this internship has prepared me for the successes and the failures, the triumphs and the challenges.  To contact me in anyway, for any reason, please send me an email!

With Love, Jasmine Jennings
jasminerenejennings@gmail.com

Financial Support Information

For Financial Donations, please mail a 

Check to Eureka Faith Center

 1032 Bay Street Eureka, CA 95503

Be sure to specify  in the memo “intern Jasmine”

For easy online giving, visit eurekafaithcenter.org And click on the “Online Giving Link” on the bottom right of the page. In “intern scholarship fund” input the amount you desire to give,  and specify “intern Jasmine”.

 All donations are tax deductible!

If you are looking for an extra hand around the house or babysitting please contact me via cell phone. 707-845-9969

Women's tea devotional

Women’s tea devotional

It is very apparent that we do not see ourselves the way that God see’s us. That we cannot not fully comprehend the level our true beauty. And like these women most of us, probably all of  us see ourselves through a distorted lense. A lense that has been dirtied by unkind words and an unkind world. A lense that zooms in a little too much at the imperfection and flaws  and somehow decides to overlook our unique and beautiful attributes.  

We’ve  read the verses about being “wonderfully and fearfully made”, we know that we are “made in God’s image” and yet, we still battle with the notion that we will never be good enough, thin enough, tall enough, tan enough, zit free enough.  It’s exhausting. And like this video said, it can be crippling. 

It is important to understand that the way be view our outer being, is a direct reflection of the lies that be believe in the dephs of our soul. One of the woman in this video said that her mother told her that she had a large jaw and as a result she believed it. For who knows how long. It became a part of her identity. 

We are not battling against a mirror, we are battling against the lies that we have been told, the lies that we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are worth.

From a very young age we are bombarded  with lies from the media about what it means to be beautiful, lies from the world about what it means to be loved, and worst of all- lies from those who were supposed to love us the most about what it means to be worthy. 

My question for you today is, what lie are you allowing to shape or distort your identity, your worth?  What lie is stopping you from realizing your true beauty?  Are you finding identity in this World, or in Christ? Are you being shaped by who you have been, what you would want to be, by what the world tells you you should be, or  by who the spirit is recreating you to become? Start thinking of what lies you might believe about youself and start asking God to reveal to you the truth about your worth and your beauty. 

In order to understand your  beauty on the outside you need to understand your worth on the inside, and in order to understand your worth on the inside, you need to know how God values you. 

Jesus says that you are “Worth more than silver and Gold” worth the life and death of the son of God.  God gave the most precious thing in the universe for you. 

He thinks you are ravishing, lovely, delicate, strong, worthy. 

Some of you might be thinking “what does this have to do with a fashion show and tea”

Well, in this video, the truth was revealed through a relationship. Another person coming in and offering their perspective. It is vital, that we speak truth into one another’s lives. 

This morning I want you all to feel beautiful, ravishing, like the  royalty you are.  This morning we will be surrounded by good food, good friends, cute clothes, and beautiful women.  So laugh, eat a a scone without thinking about the calories and speak truth and we are going to leave here knowing a little bit more about who we are and what we are worth.