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.
January 15, 2012
Here is a video Jardel sent us: Samaritan’s Purse ministering in his “home” city in Mongolia!
June 23, 2009
Hi there!
How are you doing? I trust you are doing fine and enjoying God’s grace in your life!
FAMILY:
We are all doing fine and healthy, Praise the Lord for that. As you may know we home school Joshua and Emily with an American Curriculum. It’s not easy to maintain the discipline of being a parent and teacher at the same time, and plus having to teach in another language (English) with a system that we have never seen or heard before in Brazil. We have being teaching Joshua for 3 years now, and Emily started more serious this year.
Joshua and Emily love to be around people, and a school would be the ideal for them and for us. We live in the countryside 630 kilometers from the Capital, which makes kind of hard to find a solution for their school education.
We have lived in Mongolia for eight years, and in those years, we left as a family only twice to go to Brazil, one time for five months and another for two months. For these eight years we have been immersed, and have given ourselves to the Mongolian people, learning the language, and trying to help God’s Kingdom grow in Mongolia. But, the time has come where we have to make an important decision, and God is giving us PEACE about changing the direction of how we work in Mongolia. We have decided to return to Brazil for good at the end of this year 2009 and put Joshua and Emily in a school for the year of 2010.
Jardel will still be sharing about Mongolian Missions at home in Brazil and in the USA – and wherever God opens the door. The plan is for Jardel to be able to come back to Mongolia two or three times a year, for a period of three weeks to one month each time.
THIS IS A VERY HARD DECISION, but we have peace about it. Concerning the projects and the work here, we have been giving responsibility to the Mongolians and passing leadership over to them so they can continue the work. The hardest thing to leave is the relationships with people who along the years became our brothers, parents, children, and friends. We have always tried to encourage them to depend on God in all situations and to know that we will maintain contact and will be coming back here to be a support to them.
Some have received this news with tears in their eyes which makes even more difficult for us. But, soon they understand the situation and that this is God’s direction for us.
We believe God will use our time in Brazil for a rest, also to learn more and be prepared for a bigger challenge in the future. Mongolia will always be in our hearts and we will always be connected with our friends and brothers here. We believe God will call us to another nation, or to other nations, in the future. We will always be missionaries wherever HE calls us to go.
Please pray for us and for all the transition processes we are going through right now. We also thank God for your love, kindness, trust, prayers and support over the years. What we helped to build here we never had the intention to build it for ourselves. Our principles of Missions are to help training local leaders and help them take leadership positions.
TESTIMONY:
Our DTS teams came back from the outreach full of interesting stories. It is wonderful to see the transformation that God has made in their lives and how much God used them on the outreach.
The team that went to Xovd state, 1000 kilometers from Bayankhongor, and worked with the churches. They taught the word of God, did street evangelism, prayed for the sick, drove out demons etc. God did many things among them. The team met a 66 years old lady. She is a member of a local church there, a believer of four years. This lady has an interesting story: She says that God has called her to preach the Good News and if she does not share the gospel over the course of more than three days, small red tears begin to fall from her eyes. Our team saw that happen and also they asked the church where she goes and the church confirmed the story. As soon as she starts to share about Jesus with someone the tears stop falling. Can you imagine if this happens with all us Christians? If so, maybe all the earth would have already heard about Jesus.
There was a group of young people from a local school that went to a three days camp. On the way one of them felt like being chased by a wolf, but nobody could see anything. That student was getting very scared and with a terrible fear. As they got to the camping place, some of the other students started to have the same feeling. A fear started to take over the students and some of them started to fall on the floor twisting their arms, hands and legs. The teachers and the other students decided to go back to the little town and take them to a hospital. As they were approaching the city somehow they called the staff from our team that was there, and they went and prayed for the students.
The staff told us that it was shocking to see those people rolling on the floor. As the staff started to pray for them one by one the students got delivered and came back to normal. That made a big impact in everybody that was present, not only the ones that were delivered but the teachers and the other students, too. The staff shared the gospel with them and they all received Jesus in their hearts that night. They said they were going to go to church. Praise be to our God in Heaven because He is the same today, yesterday and forever. Amen.
DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING SCHOOL:
Next week will be the school’s graduation. They had five months of training. As they leave, they will have the chance to put in practice everything they learned. We believe God will use them to reach out many lives for His Kingdom. We are really thankful for all of you who prayed and supported the students during the school. The most important is to see the transformation that God has done in their lives. On how much they became free to relate to God and with others. Glory to God in the highest! And thanks to all of you.
A big hug to all. We will keep in touch. We love you very much. Thanks again for everything!
Jardel, Inez, Joshua and Emily