New Video

So we had a missions team from George Fox University in OR come down for two and a half weeks in July. We held a youth event in Nauta, visited and met with the Co-Faternity up river, and we were blessed to be able to accompany the group to Cusco and Machu-Picchu. It was a wonderful trip. Carmen made a video highlighting this trip through her eyes. Check it out...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDi-i2ZDzWk

Carmen's Blog and video

So Carmen has started a blog and now wants to try doing a video series called Missionary Girl. Check out her blog:
joyfulsongblog.wordpress.com
Subscribe to get updates. She does more blogs than we do...haha!

Also check out her video below.
Missionary Girl vlog 1

The Hard Part

It’s really hard for me to admit when I’m struggling. I’m the type of guy that internalizes and can usually figure my way out of most any situation that I get into. Well, it’s now time to admit I’m struggling. It’s uncomfortable to have to have to let people know that we still haven’t reached our original monthly budget, but the truth is we haven’t. Since I quit my full time job we have always been about $600 short of reaching our monthly budget. Now, I don’t want to put off the vibe that we are starving because we aren’t we’re doing O.K. What it does though is make it really hard to do much more than just live. To think about doing any type of outreach work or mission stuff is really tough when you are already worried about the monthly bills being paid. Thank you to the people that have faithfully supported us this isn’t the McGee’s mission or JungleMaster mission this is God’s mission and we all belong to it. God has been so faithful to us and now I feel it is my time to be faithful and let everyone know where we are struggling. If you feel God leading you to financially help us you can set up automatic monthly withdrawals by following the link at the bottom of the page or you can make out your check to JungleMaster Ministries and just put McGee support in the comment section. 

Mail your check to

Junglemaster Ministry

PO box 29868

Bellingham, WA.

98228

https://www.aplos.com/aws/give/JunglemasterMinistries/general

Gods gift

Romans 12:6-8, Paul talks about our gifts that have been given to us by Christ.

What is that thing you do that satisfies you like nothing else? As most of you know my gift is a mechanical aptitude. Nothing satisfies me more then solving a mechanical issue. For a lot of years I didn’t understand how this gift could be used to further Gods kingdom until God gave me a clear vision and said to me “just go and let me show you how the gift I gave you can be used.” I’m going to spare you the long list of places that I have been able to use this gift, but what I will say is God has shown me immensely how my gift can be used.

Not only have I used my mechanical gift, he has also awakened other gifts that I never really even knew I had or maybe I knew I had but I didn’t think I would like using them. O.K. people this is really hard for a person like me to even write this, but I think God may have given me a gift for public speaking (no, right now I’m not very good at it and need practice) but I really am starting to like it. It makes me feel good to get up and talk about what God has done and is doing in my life.

Now, another part of God given gifts is accepting and using the help of other peoples’ God given gifts. We (the McGee family) have been given the gift of working along with JungleMaster Ministries. Let me explain how this works. The McGee’s raise monthly support to do ministry work in Peru but the monthly support they raise only covers the costs of living in Peru. JungleMaster ministry has logistical tools (boat, house, supplies, many other things) that the McGees get to use to help support JungleMaster ministry along with doing some of there own ministry. We also have been able to use my mechanical gifts along with JungleMaster Ministries gifts to help other ministries here on the river and in Nauta. What I see is these gifts are all a part of the body of Christ. I see a lot of people in ministry who are trying to do it all on their own, this wasn’t how God designed it, we HAVE to work together to get the job done.

Just Pictures

So this week I made a quick little video with pictures. It's been a relatively quiet week. Next week we will be heading up river and the following week Joel will be speaking at a Pastor's Conference in another village for three days. So we have taken time this week to rest and organize and prepare.
Have a great week!!