Jardel Da Silva
Jardel Da Silva and his family work in Bayankhongor, a small city in Southwest Mongolia, about 400 miles from the capital city of Ulan Bator.Pictured here is Jardel, his wife, Inez, and their children, Emily and Joshua.
The Da Silvas visited our church in November 2007 as they visited supporting churches in the United States and in Brazil. Jardel and his family returned to Barankhongor at the end of January, 2008.
During 2007, our church voted to begin to support the ministry of the Da Silva's.
Contact Information:
Jardel W. Da Silva
Post Office Box 129
Bayankhongor City
Bayankhongor Aimag
MongoliaPhone: 976-1442-24014
Cell Phone (Jardel): 976-11-99773429
976-11-996127Email: jardelinez@gmail.com
In June, 2007, a Discipleship Training School (DTS) was established as part of the small Youth With A Mission base there. Timber Leech traveled to Mongolia in February of 2007 to help Jardel work on the church building and renovate the newly purchased building for the Y.W.A.M. base.
Besides using their building for the DTS program, World Vision and JCS International also rent portions of the facility, helping the Church in Bayankhongor work together. There is also an office for Ongoing Church Planting Ministry. To date, twenty-four churches have been planted in the Bayankhongor Aimag (State).
Below are Jardel and Inez's most recent letters to their supporting churches and friends:
September 9, 2008
YWAM- DTS
We just started our DTS (Discipleship Training School) with 13 students, 3 couples and 7 singles.
The majority of the students are men, which is always nice. We believe God wants to restore men's authority and place in Mongolia. We believe God will work powerfully on our students during this DTS. Please pray for our students, staffs and teachers.
TESTIMONY
One of the couples that came this time is from Ulaanbaatar. They used to be very rich and famous. The couple made a movie about Buddhism in the 1980's which had a lot of success, but just after the movie their lives started to change. They started to lose money in their business. The husband, Chimed, started going into alcoholism and they started to sell their belongings.
Their lives got even worse when they lost their older son. They went to find a solution for their lives in the Buddhism and Shamanism. They also got divorced.
Sometime later Chimed's wife Saikhnaa, heard the gospel. She received Jesus in her life and the light started to shine in this family. Saikhnaa started to pray for her husband and for his salvation. One day Chimed went to an evangelism conference and gave his life to Jesus. He and Saikhnaa came back together. The Lord restored their relationship and they started to follow Jesus. But life has not been easy for this couple. They are still facing a lot of challenges, especially financially, which we believe is God's time to work in their lives. They are very gifted people. Chimed is an artist and Saikhnaa used to be an actress. Please pray for this couple and for their time with us.
VISION
As YWAM Bayankhongor, we are in a growing phase. We feel challenged to go further in the vision God has given us. God has put in our hearts to go to places where the gospel is not yet very known or not known at all. Those places are not easy to get to. There are no cars or vans from Bayankhongor going normally there. We have been doing our outreaches renting Russian vans, but it is not easy to find a driver willing to go -- besides they charge for their staying there and coming back. We would like to have more freedom to go to the outreaches. We are praying for a second hand Russian van in good condition. Please pray with us for that!
FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT IN ERDENTSOGT
Last Saturday our family and our Staffs went to Erdentsogt, a small village about 30 km from Bayankhongor to run a tournament. Through Ortaa, the church leader, who graduated from our DTS last year, our base gave to the local school a set of goal posts. Ortaa is getting a lot of respect from the community for been organizing activities and bringing development in the village.
We had a good number of participants in the tournament, a total of 7 teams, with children ages 10 to 16 between boys and girls. They had lots of fun and we could help setting up the goals and organizing the tournament.
CHALLENGES
We also have being challenged in the last months to start small business which could help the School's financial support and also to generate jobs. We wish our students apart from learning the word of God and be transformed by it, would also be able to learn some work/ job skills, like carpentry, growing vegetables, small business, etc. -- something that can help them to get a job or to begin their own business.We are dreaming about it and making plans. We will keep praying and write it all down and see what God will do.
Thanks for being part of this ministry with us
In Christ,
Jardel, Inez, Joshua and Emily
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July 23, 2008
Inez and the kids are back after five weeks in Brazil. They had a good time besides the loss of Inez's Mother. It was a safe return after more than 40 hours trip counting the transit time spent in airports. It is great to have them back. I have already put on some weight since they returned!
We are still in Ulaanbaatar. We were trying to fix our car to be able to sell it. The fixing took longer than we expected and also we will have JCS annual retreat in the beginning of August, so we decided to stay until the end of the retreat to go back home to Bayankhongor.
This weekend Jardel will go to Bayankhongor for a four day meeting with the church leaders in the whole Bayankhongor state. (Inez and the kids will stay in UB) The first two days, they will be talking about the church situation and the future plans, and the remainder will be a fellowship time. Jardel will stay the first 2 or 3 days and come back to UB for JCS retreat. It is going to be a lot of travel for a short period of time but will be very important for the ministry.
We finished our second Discipleship Training School (DTS). We had a graduation party followed by a Mongolian barbecue by the river. We graduated 18 of the 21 students that started the program. It is good to be part of the transformation of people's lives. Our program there has many things to be improved, but we are still learning and making mistakes. We pray God will help us to make the right changes.
TESTIMONY
OIONBOLD is a young Mongolian man who lived under Satan’s influence but was protected by God through his grandmother's intercessions. Oionbold grew up in a good family. His parents were great to him as were his grandparents. He was loved by them and he had no complains about them.
As a child he started to have a desire to steal money from his parents, and he did it many times. Many times his parents noticed that money was missing, but Oionbold never confessed stealing to them. That desire grew bigger inside of him and soon he was stealing money and things from the community. When he was 14 years old, he was captured and went to prison.
He stayed in prison for about 14 years in a total. Oionbold was not afraid of prison, he got used to it; there he was the boss. He used to beat people up as soon as they would get in prison, just to make sure they would be under his leadership. He was not afraid to die; in fact he tried to kill himself 7 times. His grandmother was a Christian and she prayed for him for all these years, but she died without seeing him recovered and with God.
Last year, he got out of prison and was planning to do the same as always, trying to take advantage of people, etc. But he met a Christian girl who started to minister to him and she brought him to the church. He liked her actually, and that was the reason he went to church. He did not like the church much, but he noticed there was something different about those people, different from the people he was used to. They were nice and kind.
Well, he wound up coming to DTS. He arrived two weeks after DTS had already started. We usually we do not accept people who are late, but we prayed and we felt God would like to do something in his life. We did know his background, but God led us to accept him.
Oimbold was one of our graduating students this year and one of the lives most changed by the Lord. He gave his testimony at the graduation ceremony in tears because of what God has been doing in him.
Oimbold always liked boxing and practiced boxing for some years in prison. Now he has a vision to start a Christian boxing club to reach out the youth that are maybe thinking to go to the life he was before. He wants to help them to choose a better way for life. It is great to see people being transformed and willing to reach out others. Please keep Oimbold and his project in your prayers.
Our next DTS will start on September 1, 2008.
In Christ,
Jardel, Inez, Joshua and Emily
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April 13, 2008
"For I Know the thoughts I think towards you, says the Lord, Thoughts of peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
YWAM SCHOOL
It is great to remember how God thinks about us. In the last two weeks God has been moving in a special way in the lives’ of our DTS Students. It is a pleasure to be here and see God working in people's lives.
Jargal one of our students was abandoned as a child, she never met her parents. She has been living her whole life in orphanages. She came to our school to do a DTS (Discipleship Training School) here in Bayankhongor. Since the beginning of the School, she has caused many troubles for the other students. We even thought to send her back to her home. Two weeks ago I felt God was going to do something different that would change some of our students radically.
After that we had Joy Preston from USA ministering about Intercession, Spiritual Warfare and Prophecies. Many of our students were impacted with the teaching. There was a breakthrough in this student’s heart. The next week we had Melinda Mickelson teaching on Father Heart of God. This is a teaching to bring healing and forgiveness to those who were hurt or abandoned by their parents.
This week was a key week for Jargal. God was preparing her all the way to start a process of freedom in her life. For the first time she forgave her parents for abandoning her, and she could even pray for their salvation. The next day, we could see Jargal's face – she was shining in freedom and happiness. All the other students encouraged her saying they could not even recognize her because of her bright face. Praise God. As with Jargal, we have many testimonies of what God is doing here.
FAMILY
As a family, we are doing very well. Joshua is speaking amazing Mongolian. He always spoke the language well, but in the last 2 months his Mongolian has taken off. He speaks as good as a Mongolian kid. He makes friends very easy; when he is home the Mongolian kids come to our gate and call his name.
Emily is our loud princess. She has a strong personality and she is also very smart.
Inez is well, home schooling the kids with American material that uses DVDs. Please continue pray for them.
Inez decided to make some changes in our kitchen and living room. Basically, we took down the wall between the two rooms to have more space. It was a lot of work, but surely it is much better now. Our house this last winter was very cold. This summer we need to make some radical changes to make it warmer, like fixing the heaters, installing extra heaters, and making a fire place in the living room with a Mongolian stove, and also putting a new roof on the house. We also need to fix our bathroom. Since we moved we are still using a bucket the flush the toilet.
OUR CAR
Our car, after staying 4 months in the garage this winter, started to lose power. We had some good friends looking at it. They said the transmission in really bad. We might need to change the transmission and put a new one. For that we need to send the car on a truck to Ulaanbaatar 30km, because I do not think it can make it driving. A new transmission will cost us quite a bit of money.
So, we are praying about what to do with our car and the repairing in our house. We believe God will provide on His own good timing. Please pray for that as well as the heating system that we need to fix this summer. Otherwise, we can’t use half of the house next winter.
Thank you all for you friendship and support. We really pray that our God will keep you safe and bless you.
In Christ,
Jardel, Inez, Joshua and Emily
* * * * * * *February 24, 2008
Dear all,
We are really glad to be back in Mongolia after a long trip that was full of surprises. We had a really restful time in Brazil and in America. We enjoyed spending time with our families and friends, and meeting new ones.
After leaving Brazil on our way back to the USA, our plane had some mechanical problems and we almost had to do an emergency landing back in Sao Paulo airport. Looking down we could see many fire trucks and ambulances – it was scary! On the next day we got into another plane, but after waiting for an hour and a half, the pilot discovered some problems with that plane too. So we had to stay two more days in Brazil. Praise God he protected us from any accidents.
We left Brazil in the middle of summer and got back in Mongolia at the end of winter. It was a shocking experience, as we never had done that before. Brazil was +28 C, but when we arrived in Mongolia, the temperature was -25 C. We are OK, it is getting warmer now.
We arrived in Bayankhongor, the town where we live, and ten days later we were starting our second DTS ( Discipleship Training School). God blessed us with the first school. We heard some good reports about our former students. Some of them are leading churches, others are serving in ministries. Praise God for their lives and may He keep them safe.
Our new DTS has 19 students coming from different parts of Mongolia. This time we had an increase of 30% more students than our first school.
We ask your prayers for the students. We wish that during the five months of the program they will receive a special touch from God and have a life-changing experience. This summer for the outreach, we are planning to visit Inner Mongolia, North of China.
Please pray for our base financial situation. We are still looking for more support for our staffs, workers and ministries. Any support would make a big difference for all of us.
Jardel is glad to be able to teach Football (soccer) again in the Sports Center. In the first week, many kids came and his schedules are working well this time. He teaches three days a week, mornings and afternoons. Next month they will organize an Adult's Indoor soccer tournament.
Joshua is a bit behind in school. It has been a challenge for Inez to be home schooling Joshua and Emily. She uses an American educational program, with DVD's which helps. English is not her first language, so that makes harder. Please pray for Inez and the Kids. Thanks.
May God bless you richly. Thank you for all your prayers and support.
With love,
Jardel, Inez, Joshua and EmilyHere is a picture of some of the Bayankhongor Youth With A Mission Discipleship Training School staff and students:
Jardel is standing at the far right side of the picture.
