Hi Everyone
 
   I know it’s been awhile, but I just wanted to catch up on things since my last blog!!  Thank you all whom have been supporting me so for.  At the beginning of the year, God has given me the opportunity to attend a Christian leadership academy called G42. I was given tools not only spiritually but physically as well.  Mostly every week I was there, there was a different speaker to teach us how to put a vision together. The speakers there have had amazing lives and have life long resumes of serving the Lord and starting well functing ministries.  G42 has giving me awesome tools and an amazing network of people to help put me in a direction to make the dream God has given me come true. Thus, I did not get to finish G42 because I ran out of support. I only got to finish three months instead of the full six months.  So I came back home and continued my journey of following the Lord.                           
 
    These last five months back in the states have been good but hard!  I miss that time of learning and growth so much.  Nonetheless, I did take the opportunity to work at a Christian sports camp called T Bar M.  God moved in mighty ways in the camper and coaches lives and other staff members.  The things that God has taught me over the last year or so have been passed down to other people. This summer kids have come to know crazy by having an amazing staff of college age people work with them.  They are taught how to get better at there sport of choosing as well as how to be a kid running after Christ.  Tons of children this summer have given their lives to Lord. It not only changed them but it changed me as well. I desire nothing more but to continue on the wonderful path God has given me.
  
    I write you today, because I would love for you to continue to support me, and join in on a vision to help others that are in need.  My hope is to be a provider of jobs for people who are in heavy poverty stricken areas, and are in need for a better life.  Being able to provide jobs for people who are involved in sex trafficking and people who just don’t have that much in general is something that God has put on my heart.  I ask you to come join me in making that vision come true, and G42 is best next step for us to make that happen. I need $4,322 to finish, my hope is to go in October, but I can not go until I have all the money I need to go with.  With your help this can happen.  With God all things are possible. To help support go to www.g42leadershipacademy.org/donate. At the website you will click on donate. Then the donation page will appear. You can select intern support and on the page it will have donation choices you don’t have to select
an amount. Under the decision to support an intern, staff member, or a project you will click intern, and under that will be the box for the person’s name you can support. My name is Jonathan Smith so you can type in my name then click on intern support. If you don’t type in my name there will be a chance to type it in again, but only after all your billing information is typed and put it. After the intern page will be the page where you will give your donation amount and billing information.  If you have a PayPal account there will be an opportunity to use PayPal. After you type in your billing information. The next page will conform the amount and who you want to send it to on the next page. Then you are finished. If you have any questions or any ideas to help with the vision. You can email me at [email protected] or give me a call at 727-342-4202.  Thanks.
Love, Jonathan Smith
 
P.S I’ll be sharing more about what God has been teaching me soon.