The first day we touched down in Belize 5 people and a sweet little girl met us at the airport. One of those people has quickly become a dear friend. Jermaine King is a stunning individual. He has so many talents including photography (more than half the pictures of me have been taken by him). His testimony is one of the most incredible that I have heard. Full of faith, patience and the protective nature of God. 19 years old and he is a wealth of wisdom, joy and quiet strength.
Jermaine has been ministering faithfully beside us for over a week now. I asked him to write a guest blog for me. It surpassed expectations.
See a piece of my brother’s precious heart below:
Team Surrendered 1st country Belize
Belize is the only English-speaking country in central America. With its diverse cultures and landscape makes it so stunning. My pastor and I had the privilege to welcomed team surrendered to our country and mostly to the Independence church of the Nazarene where they will spend most of their mission time. Over the past week, I had the opportunity to experience working along side the team. It was truly nice to see how well they worked together. Team surrendered surpass the level of kindness, helpfulness, welcoming, laughers, friendly and even encouragement that they openly showed to our church as well as the villagers. Truly you can see the love of God shining through each of them. In Mark 12: 31 says ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” While your neighbor are the people that physically lives beside you and you are to treat them with the same love that you show to yourself. But our neighbor is also everyone we come in contact with and team surrendered does this commandment so naturally. The unique aspect of team surrendered is they bonded with us so naturally like they knew us from a longtime. Their radiant smiles and joy that comes from within each of them is so phenomenal. You can surely see that it is God working in them and through them.
What makes Team surrendered excited?
The team was so excited to learn about the different cultures and their language. It was so fun teaching them Kriol. They catch on swiftly and practice different phrases in Kriol. Watching them learning to cook like Belizeans was so fun. The way there faces lights up as they try the different food was mostly the greatest part of the day. Joshua 1:3 states that “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you.” God has surely given Belize and the other ten countries to team surrendered. We have been blessed by them coming here to minister to us. This week was full of God doing great things through team surrendered.
What kind of Minister work they did?
The Independence High school is well known for their growing student body as well as cultural diversity. In the gospel John Jesus said “Come follow me and I will send you out to fish for people.” This is exactly what team surrendered did, they went to Independence High school to share their testimonies and Jesus to students. I was honored to join them in almost all of the classes that they shared in. Hearing Martha, Sarah Ann, Lauren, Bonnie, Jillian and Kaitlin stories of what God have and still is doing for them really touched and encourage me to keep trusting and obeying God. I am sure that each student in those classes was encouraged and found out more about who God is and how he loves each of them. Team surrendered planted seeds those days and I can’t wait to see them grow.
What God gave me to bless team surrendered?
Before I wrote this blog, I prayed asking God to give me a word or a verse that he wants team surrendered to know and be confident in. The following day when I was proceeding with writing God lead me to Joshua 1:3 which states that “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you.” Martha, Sarah Ann, Lauren, Bonnie, Jillian and Kaitlin know that God has given you all each of the other Country including Belize. We were blessed by each one of you all and we love you all so much!!!!!!!!!
Blessings,
Jermaine A. King Jr.
