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stepping beyond support with Bro. Jamie McClain
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The journey from casual supporter to passionate missionary. Jamie McClain reveals, is a path worth taking.
Jamie witnessed a non-English speaking Honduran man begin praying in perfect, fluent English beside him during a service.
His description of feeding stations transforming malnourished children into healthy, vibrant young people demonstrates the tangible impact of mission work.
Following the loss of his uncle Cletus. Jamie now feels called to carry that mantle forward. For those hesitant to get involved, Jamie offers simple advice: "If you have any doubt, try God. He will not fail you."
Want to experience the transformative power of missions for yourself? Contact us at 318-491-1772 or send mail to PO Box 904, Oakdale, Louisiana, 71463. Your journey might begin with a simple decision to step out in faith, just as Jamie did.
Hey everybody, welcome back to the God's Willing Podcast. I'm your host, Kent, and today we're going to be talking to Jamie McClain. He is the Associate Pastor of TAMS Pentecostal Church in TAMS, Illinois, and thank you for being here with us today. Well, you're very welcome. So we've got a wide variety of different things we're going to be talking about. We tried to do a YouTube channel with our Jamie here and for what we was going to do, this was a whole lot better outlet for us to say what we was going to say. So we're going to get to that eventually. But to start out, how did you feel the call to missions work?
Speaker 3:Well, when I wasinteresting how that all got started with me. I was about 15 years old. I was at our local youth camp in Elko, illinois and I was a camper there and I've always had this vibe with my heart. And there was a service that we had some missionaries come in and God was just kind of speaking to me at the time, says this is what I want you to get into. I never really knew what to do, how to go about getting into it or anything, but it was at that nice service that God, I want you to step out in faith and take the call to be a missionary. I said, lord, wherever you want me to go and lead me, I will go that direction. And that's kind of where my start got started.
Speaker 2:How, did you first get involved with missions?
Speaker 3:How I got started into the missions. It wasn't until later in my life. I didn't know what direction to go. I just kept praying about it, seeking where God wanted me to go, and years later I got into helping monetarily with different mission groups and different stuff like that, but never really going beyond that. And it was a few years later that we had a missionary group actually come to our church they were in Mexico at the time and we started sponsoring them, started sending them money, gifts and whatever they needed, trying to help them out, right, and it all just kind of just kept growing from there. And about 2020, my Uncle Quiver contacted me and he said we got this missionary group, daniel Sweet, that's starting in Honduras, a mission mission group, and they're needing help. And that's where my heart just kind of floated that direction and we started getting into helping five little ones on the early stages where it was getting started in Honduras. So that's kind of where it led me up where I'm at today so, uh, that first trip y'all went on.
Speaker 2:What did y'all do on that trip? And after you tell that, is there any kind of impactful stories you have from that trip?
Speaker 3:My first trip into Honduras was kind of I didn't know what to expect. To be honest, when I first went into Honduras, my uncle played at the Tome for a thing. I talked to Dave. They kind of let me know kind of what was going on and everything. But I was kind of nervous the first time. Right, my uncle played who I went, took me to third, my very first time um was wondering how it's going to do on the plane ride. But I wasn't worried about the plane ride. What got me was when we landed in Honduras at the airport and the military was there with the military guns.
Speaker 3:That was an interesting landing that I was not expecting. That first trip in and seeing the sights that I saw within the country, it just kept drawing me in. It kept drawing me. Then we got up into the mountains where the growth center is, and it just all becomes real. It kind of blew into me and this is where I want to be. I mean, it's just a step foot there. God said this is where I want you at right now I'm like okay, lord.
Speaker 3:I'll do what you want me to do. There was actually only about four. There were six of us on the trip. That very first trip it was a pastor, some of the saints, and we got some preaching, teaching, had some really good services and that very first or the second service that we were there, um, I was standing in the back of the room just in all of how wonderful god's mercy was of being able to touch these people. When seeing that the being able to touch these people and seeing that the stuff that they have to go for just even served the Lord and they had a heart and a soul and a hunger for God's word and I see them coming in from walking to these places. I mean, here in America we have the luxury of getting in our vehicle and going wherever we wanted to, but they would walk miles and miles and miles just to get where, where we were having the services and stuff, and that just just soaked me and brought me in. Um, that was actually.
Speaker 3:That was first trip I got to testify while I was there.
Speaker 3:Funny story on that one I got up to testify. I don't have any told you this story yet, but um got up to testify and we were right outside the glow center, um, across the road where the where another little church was there and the wind got picking up we were doing the outside service and it literally blew the roof off of that church and the tarp and everything and the single or the clay tiles come falling off of that church and my uncle, when I got done, he says I knew you had it in you, but he says I didn't know you'd be able to blow the roof off the place, son, yeah, that was fun. That was my very first time ever kicking an under and you're going to blow the roof off the place, son, yeah, that was fun. That was my very first time ever kicking an underriff in a setting like that and I rather enjoyed it. God has just been kind of drawing me more and more and more going there. I was hooked that very first trip and I always want to go back whenever I can.
Speaker 2:You talked about something and I want to go back whenever I can. You, you talked about something I want to go back to that and you talked about how these people they come from miles around to get to where we, to get to a service we're doing. They still do that to this day. It's. It's one of the. I talk about this on the podcast, probably more than I should. I can't express it enough and I've probably said this more. I know it's very repetitive, but I can't express it enough.
Speaker 2:These people are obsessed with these services. When we go up there and preach, they absorb it, they love it. So it's really different from anything you'll see in the States to where we uh it, it don't bother a lot of people in the States to miss a service or something. When these people they'll go, they'll, they'll hitch a ride right in the back of a truck or they'll walk. Some of them will ride donkeys or stuff. I don't, I have not seen that as much, but I've seen people walking in the pitch black for church. Yeah, it's really crazy what they're willing to go, how far they're willing to go to a church service.
Speaker 3:Yes, it is. And just to reiterate that you were talking about the donkeys and stuff. There was one service I was in. There were five donkeys that they had rode in on and they said that they had come from way up in the tops of the mountains to come down to service. I mean to have that much dedication.
Speaker 2:Oh it's crazy. And then just imagine, because they get there in the daytime and, like I said, by the time they get home it's pitch black.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we do services a lot of times nowadays in the afternoon. If we got trip, we'll do them in the afternoon. By the time we're, by the time they get home, they, they ain't carly they then. They ain't got a flashlight, they just walking. It's crazy, but uh get to go wherever they need to go. Right, it's. It's really crazy. So, uh, we kind of talked about this a little bit, but I'm going to go ahead and ask you again. So you said you didn't really have any expectations, but how did your first trip change?
Speaker 3:how you looked at missions, the first trip that I took on totally changed my outlook on missions. Um, at first I just was comfortable with being able to do what I could from the state here and to go beyond what I need to say here. But it's so easy for us to open up our wallet or pocketbook or whatever and just give that money and say I give the mission. But when you step foot on that soil and see firsthand what God is doing with that money that you are sending or that gift that you send or whatever it is we send wherever it goes, right, see firsthand what lives are being changed because of that Right, right, right, right, right. So within that God has been doing with me and speaking with me, says you can see greater things. Right.
Speaker 3:And I've been to Honduras quite a few times. I haven't been able to go in the last couple of years because of my work and my job situation. But that hunger to go back into the mission work and back into the mission field is there and it's drawing me even stronger today than it did before to go back into the mission work and back into the mission field is there and it's drawing me even stronger today than it did before I took that first step onto the mission field.
Speaker 2:Right, what? So you said you went on that first trip and you went. Fun fact, you know we talked about the reason why I really thought this podcast I wanted to do this was because of the text you sent me. You sent me a text talking about how you got called in missions, work and stuff and I thought it would make great for a podcast. That was why I wanted to do this. I hadn't read the text in a while and before I came and did this podcast, I read it again and I had called up Brother Danny, the director of God's Little One, and talked to him about you going on mission trips and stuff. I didn't realize you had went on more than one after we had talked. I completely didn't. I didn't even realize that that was my bad, yeah, but so besides, that first Go ahead.
Speaker 2:What Besides?
Speaker 3:that first go ahead. What were you talking about? Yeah, I've been on quite a few mission trips.
Speaker 2:Go on. What besides that? I'm sorry Go?
Speaker 3:ahead, go ahead. I had some feedback there. Sorry, no, you're good, You're good.
Speaker 2:What of those trips? What was your? What was one of your favorite trips besides your first one, One of my?
Speaker 3:favorite trips, besides my first one? Oh, I guess they all had their ups and downs. Right, they all differ. That's one thing about going on these trips and stuff. No, two trips that I was on have ever been the same. Right, right. I agree with that.
Speaker 3:The very first one, like I said, was the freaky one and there was just like four, I think there was six of us total that went. And my second trip there was like 17 of us, so there was a few of us that went, and the second one was more for the toy drive that went, and the second one was more for the toy drive, I guess the one that really sticks out. Um is a trip that I really enjoyed because I got to be in a service and I can't remember the exact name of the, the town we were in, and I was in the back of the service, uh, just taking it all in and seeing god move within the people there, and I was standing beside this Honduran. He was really getting in and I was sitting there praying with him and the next thing I know, he started speaking in tongues, and I know this because he was speaking fluent English. Yeah, and I'm standing here and I'm praying for him. Wait him, wait wait, wait.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I interrupted you you said he was speaking perfect english.
Speaker 3:He was speaking perfect english. What? Yes, yes, his tongue was fluent english, just like me and you are having this conversation right now. His tongue was him praising God and getting blessed in English, and I think that was God's way of showing me that I can use whoever I want to speak whatever I need to, and, yeah, it was fluent English. I asked Brother Danny about that. He said he said no, they don't know English. And that's when the realization hit me that how powerful God's hand of mercy is upon people when I'm standing right next to a Honduran that don't know English and it's speaking fluent English right next to me. Wow, so that probably was one of my favorite mission trips how God was telling me that when you're in a different land and I move, my voice is broadcast in every language, every tongue, every denomination, everything out there. God's power can be manifested and be shown that way to us, sometimes just the way we are and where we are at.
Speaker 2:Bro, that's unbelievable, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that still that service. I mean I've seen people touched in that service. I mean I've seen people touched in that service, but that one was one that I was in and I was touched just as much as that person was.
Speaker 2:That is powerful. Hey, the Holy Ghost has no boundaries. No, he does not. He has no boundaries.
Speaker 3:And a lot of times I hate to say it we as humans try to put boundaries on the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 2:Right we think the same. Right it, man. I've never heard that before, so I'm wow, that's unbelievable. I've never heard that like that. I don't.
Speaker 3:That just blew my mind when you said that that's unbelievable, that's crazy you know, I've seen go ahead me and my wife talked about that for a couple, three times after that and I haven't told a whole lot of people that. I just felt that that was god's showing me that I am where I need to be, because some of the things that he was saying and praying for was the exact same thing that I was praying for at the time for for myself, right and certain, wanting to get closer to God and everything. And God was blessing him and just calling me right in along with it. I mean, like you said, there's no words to explain other than how great God is on that.
Speaker 2:That is powerful. Yeah, so you said that you had went and you have done the toy drives, like brought the toys out. Have you done that? Yes, what did you think getting to see the toys passed out?
Speaker 3:That was just awesome. One of the first times that we did it was on my second trip and, uh, we went this little village and for those who really don't understand the magnitude of what goes into that, can you imagine a little pickup truck piled so high with toys and it's over the cab of the truck, packed in a truck, and going up the side of a mountain. That's my first all I will even manage to get all these toys on these trucks going up into these villages. And then when you get there, oh my goodness, when you pull up into that place and you see all these kids running around everywhere that don't have hardly anything, and then you're able to give them a little something, the joy that comes across their face if they may not get something all year long.
Speaker 3:Or there was one place we went to that has never had any ritual work done into it and we walked into that village and the joy of just having them getting that little something, that greatness was inside of me that God has put on them. He says this is my commandment that you love one another. Love one another right. And given that love, even if it's just a hot wheel or a stuffed animal or bobby dolls for that little girl or whatever. There's nothing greater than seeing the joy of a child all right, uh, getting present or that little gift and being able to see them with that joy upon their face. I mean, it's just something you won't ever, ever forget.
Speaker 2:Right, it's a different experience. You got to go, you can talk about it, you can see it on a video. There's nothing like being there when it happens, nothing like being there?
Speaker 3:No, and it's the same way with the feeding stations. I know you went to.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you're planning on getting to that part of the mission work that we do. The first feeding station that I walked into was able to help pass out food to kids that are hungry, that don't hardly have any food or anything around, and the adults and everything. And what's been amazing is the huge the trip that I have been able to get to go on to. I got to go back from them feet a couple of them feeding stations on other trips and to see the change within that that child and those families right were malpractitioned and having a lot of things going on with them, and then seeing that they're healthy and they're vibrant and they're 100% better from the first, from the one step to the next, I mean seeing God working in all that aspect. I'm just in awe. Every time that I can't do it, I'm like Lord, when are you going to kill me this time?
Speaker 3:Right when I'm here, I mean it's not just him, it's God killing me. Look, I'm still using you. Right. So yeah, god's telling me, look, I'm still using you, so yeah, it's a powerful experience.
Speaker 2:So you've been to a feeding station? I've never. I've been on a couple missions, I want to say about 5. I haven't been 2 too many times. I've only been doing a lot with God's little one in 2 years I've never been to a feeding station. So explain we've talked about that to what that is, but that is a phenomenal thing right there, because these kids are not like you said I'm kind of just reverberating a little bit what you said and stuff but these kids are very malnutritioned. In these areas that we do this, we've kind of limited it down to a certain group. We've done we used to do white out but we had to kind of cut it down. But these kids were doing they eat, they don't have much food and now that we're able to give them food, like he said, they're growing in there. It's helping them. We've been doing other stuff with other groups with water and stuff uh, four corners. They've been doing water filters with us. All of this together there it's helping them live longer. Yeah, it's really powerful. But so it's really powerful.
Speaker 2:Have you been to besides the Kids Crusades or no? Not the Kids Crusades, sorry. The toy distribution, the toy distribution. The food crusade. Sorry, the toy distribution, the toy distribution, the food distribution and the preaching. Have you been to any other trips?
Speaker 3:no, all the ones that I've always been on. I would love to go when we do a kids crusade. That would be awesome, because I've never been able to participate in a kids crusade. That would be awesome. I've never been able to participate in a kids crusade. That would be one that would be awesome to be able to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've been doing a lot more of the kids crusades lately. Yeah, and.
Speaker 3:I would love to go on one of those ones sometime when the door of opportunity actually is able to open up for me. I enjoy kids for stage, you know. I think adults enjoy them just as much as kids do.
Speaker 2:I'd agree with that.
Speaker 3:When we did the toys and stuff, we did do a couple of skits. There was one skit that stands out to me. It was Brother Danny and me done the story of David and Goliath. Now, if you have not met me, you've got to realize I'm 6'2 and roughly 280 pounds, so I look like a giant compared to these kids. And then, if you don't know brother Danny, he's a little shorter than I am and we played David and Goliath and done the story of David and Goliath. Now that was quite interesting, but that's the extent of a kid's crusade that I have ever been on within Hunter. But yeah, that was quite interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen us do it. We've done stuff like that. That's always fun to do. So you were the nephew. Your uncle was Cletus McClain. You were the nephew, your uncle was Cletus McClain and he was very deep involved with missions, so explain who he was exactly.
Speaker 3:Okay, who exactly? He was, my uncle Cletus. He was a character within himself. He did not meet a stranger. Certainly, if you ever met him, he was, he was, he was totally like him. If you didn't like him before, if you walked into the room with him, you would like him after you met him in the room with him. I mean, he was just a humble, down-to-earth person. He loved the Lord, he loved the work in Honduras, he loved as many trips as he could get on to go down to Honduras. His heart was to go down there and do that. Not only doing that, but being the pastor of his church, which, ironically, right now Brother Dean is the pastor of Just kind of interesting full circle there. Yeah, he's the story behind him and Brother Danny, the years they've been together. Anyway, that's not what this podcast is about, right, but he was down to earth and just a joy to be around.
Speaker 2:How did him and his missions and just how did he involve or how did he impact you missions-wise?
Speaker 3:How did he impact me mission-wide? I was going through a hard time, um, in about 2015 2016 god, I think, showed it to him that I was supposed to be on the mission field. I talked to him a few times before that about being a missionary and he came up to me and I was going through a really rough rocky road there for a little while. And he came up to me and I was going through a really rough rocky road there for a little while and he came up to me. He says he looked at me. He says you have a week's worth of vacation. I said well, I can take a week off. I said why? He says I need you to take this week off. We're going to Honduras. He said yeah. He says I need you to take this week of work off because you're going with me to hunter. Okay, he says no questions, just put in for it. I'm like okay, you know what? They're not my job at the time, not gonna let me offer them. I'd love to go because I'd talk to him like before about going, and he left me. He says Putting for the sleep off, put in for that week off. And lo and behold, they come back that afternoon and said you have the entire week off, alright, okay. Then I talked to him. I said okay, they gave me the week off. Now what he said start playing.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's just how my uncle Cleus was with me. But he had talked to me many a times about me wanting to go and everything, and he was actually one of my biggest butchers about getting me involved and actually going on trips gratitude for my love of missions solely about being able to go on a mission trip and being able to set foot in different areas because of him, because if it wasn't for him, I would probably still be one of those sitting on the TV just opening up my wallet and sticking the money in the plate, right, but it was him that he kept pushing me and kept pushing me. He says, lord, it's got to work for you. I see it and I'm going to push you along as much as I possibly can. We need men of God in our lives to be able to push us to our next place. So to our next place we need to be, and for me it was my uncle Quintus at that point, I mean my dad, he's the pastor of the church. Yeah, he always supported me and backed me, my mom. They always backed me wherever I went. But he's the one who actually pushed me to go farther than I have ever gone before and I owe a lot of gratitude to him. I miss him very much. He's not with us right now COVID took him away from us but I can still hear him today in my head and even now recently, I can hear him in my head telling me just because I'm gone, don't stop Right. I mean, he was always the one there pushing me and I see the joy that he had when he went on trips and he pushed me to go right along with him and I missed that camaraderie between us and it just kind of.
Speaker 3:He was the one that kind of spearheaded our area up here in Illinois for God's little one's mission work here in Illinois for God's little one's mission work. And when he passed away he just kind of it's just like Elijah and Elisha with the mantle Right when Elijah went up in the world, went in the chariot, elisha asked what would you ask of me? He says a double portion. Well, I didn't ask for a double portion, but that mantle was kind of I guess you could say he says a double portion. Well, I didn't ask for a double portion, but that mantle was kind of.
Speaker 3:I guess you could say he was preparing me to take the mantle on and that's where I am right now. I'm kind of so like that. I'm picking up the mantle because very big shoes, his and brother danny, to try to step and follow in and yeah, he was a very spiritual guide for me getting into the mission work and yeah, I can say I kind of slacked off on going but my job situation I'm cutting from that, but I can't use that as an excuse anymore. The drawing is there and I can hear my uncle in my head saying you need to get back.
Speaker 2:I can tell you we're looking forward to you going back.
Speaker 3:I'm doing everything I can right now to be able to make another trip. I'm doing everything I can right now to be able to make another trip. I'm just waiting for the right door to open back up for me. Amen.
Speaker 2:Well, to get to continue with the podcast, with questions I had, like I said earlier, I had contacted you through. I think it was Danny. Either Did Uncle Danny talk to you or did I text you first, I don't remember how that happened. I don't remember exactly. It's been a while, it was like last year. Yeah, it was like last year.
Speaker 3:I know he had said something about you doing. I think I remember what happened. He told you about it, and then I texted you yeah, I think he told me about it and then you texted me so he had asked.
Speaker 2:He had asked me for my number to get to you, so that's how that worked, yeah yes, I remember I asked him to get I'm pretty sure I asked him to get permission from you, uh, to do it, and then I called you about setting up to do it and stuff. And what we're talking about is we had a uh, uh and that was actually I remember that was the beginning of this year that that happened. I remember, because that was uh, my last trip went on this.
Speaker 2:So my last trip that I've been on recently, that was that trip. The beginning of this year, I want to say January or February, we had a missions trip go on and it was me, joey Sweeney, jared Clark, which will be on a future podcast, my dad, who will be on a future podcast, and Jared's brother No's brother, no cousin, yeah, his cousin and we went on a preaching trip. And well, while we was at that preaching trip, uh, brother, uh, uh bro, luis vargas, our, uh, our on the ground missionary in Honduras, he had brought us a guitar. He wanted us to make it. It was an acoustic, he wanted us to make it electric so that they could hook it up to an amp. They was going to give it to a church.
Speaker 2:While I was there and I'm kind of laying a background before I start asking you some stuff about this but while we was there, we took that guitar and we made it and we gave it to a church and while I was there I got to take videos and stuff of that guitar being used and it was a really. I thought it was a really cool story to talk about forgiving. So you turned out I had talked to uncle danny about contacting the person who had gave that guitar. Somehow we got on that subject. I don't know if it was me or him, but you were the one who donated that guitar, so why don't you talk about that? We had talked about these guitars. Well, I say multiple guitars. Talk about that for a minute for me, yeah.
Speaker 3:So tell me how that story, how that come about. Brother Danny had asked me here a while back, um, well before that, that trip that you went on and they converted them over to the electric. Um, he had asked me. He said he said we're in the need for some music equipment for some churches down here. I said, well, brother Danny, what are you needing? I said, um, my uncle owns a music store.
Speaker 3:I was thinking maybe, well, we could figure out, maybe try to figure out how to get these and this and that and everything else. And he said, well, we need some guitars and different stuff. And I said, okay, and I, the Lord just kind of says, go talk to your uncle floyd about this. So I went talk to my uncle floyd about it and just to see what, what was transpiring of it. And he ended up, I ended up getting two guitars from him that should have been destined for, been destined for somewhere else, and that's kind of where they come from. We kind of worked out the bills and everything and they were kind of gift cards, were donated 100% and packed them up and I told Brother Danny that I had the gift cards and I told him where they were and everything and that story, and I didn't think nothing else about it.
Speaker 3:Um, any, any musical instrument or anything that's going to a church, I always pray over it. Well, I had our church pray over these guitars that they would be used for god's glory. So we prayed for the gift cars, we boxed them up and we shipped them over to honduras. And the next thing I did is a text from brother danny on a mission trip says you know them, get cars that you donated in your church. Yeah, he sends me a picture and he says they're now electric.
Speaker 3:I was thrilled a gift like that, because sometimes you don't know where they're going to be used, how the lord's going to use them or whatever. And those guitars is it's just another one in token one of these things that how god uses something that we each one of us has a need to be able to do different things. God will use whatever we have available to us to use for his glory. And here again is another example of the need being there, praying for the need for the needs and the needs being met and seeing that guitar being given to where it needed to go, for God's glory. I mean full circle there.
Speaker 2:Right. So I thought it was really cool and I love to bring this up. You know, most people don't see their stuff used. They donate it, yeah, and just give it by faith, expecting it to be used. Now a lot of people will have doubts about it. What would you say to someone who's doubting giving because they don't know if it's going to be used or not? For?
Speaker 3:someone who is doubting on giving. The Scripture says we walk by faith. Right. And if we don't have the faith when we're going to give something and it's going to be used for God's glory? The way I see it, our faith is a little. Sometimes we become weak and who don't know that are questioning it. We can give story after story after story of how some of these donations and we can show pictures of what is?
Speaker 3:given. I mean, if you have that doubt within you on wondering whether or not to give, the way I see it, test towards right give, he's not expecting anything back until the time of blessing, you'll receive, right. I mean, that's the thing. When I give without the expectation of getting back, then you get to see the backside of that, where that donation is being made, that donations are being given out. I used to do some slideshow presentations at our churches and stuff on this topic because I would like to show people your donations. You give it.
Speaker 3:It's not just being given in vain. God is using everything that you send, every, every dollar, every cent, every toy, every stuffed animal. Everything you are sending is being used. And it's funny because I can show people that have had that doubt okay, is it really being sent? Is it really being used? Is it really being? I mean, I've had people with them same exact scenarios and then I show them the videos and stuff like that and I've seen them and heard it. Different people said, oh, I remember giving that, I remember sending that, and then it's going to go down and I said, yeah, it does, and it may not seem like a lot but it makes them feel better seeing that their stuff is actually being used. Right.
Speaker 3:It's on both parts and that's how God's blessings work. Sometimes we just hear without expecting anything out of it, and we sometimes question I'm human. I question Lord, is this really you, is this really what you want me to give? Trust the Lord, he will show you what you need to do, right.
Speaker 2:Did they ever show you? I actually just texted you a picture of that guitar being used at the church that we gave it to because we did a service at that church and in that service they played the guitar. Did they ever show you a picture of it being used, or did they just show you the guitars being fixed?
Speaker 3:no, um that picture you just sent me. I haven't seen that picture, but the one that um brother danny had sent me. I haven't seen that picture, but the one that Brother Danny had sent me showed me that that guitar was being used in the church, but I hadn't seen that particular picture there. Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's awesome Whenever you first seen that it was being used? What was your reaction?
Speaker 3:I just lit up with joy. I mean anything that I send out for God's work or whatever it may cause me to be. I just light up with joy and I'm like thank you Jesus, another soul can be one. Like, thank you Jesus, another soul can be one, amen, thank you Jesus. And another heart can be touched. And music and everything is such a vital part of our lives and everything Right. But just seeing the stuff that is being done is awesome, right.
Speaker 2:So we just about done with all of our questions. We still got a little bit to talk about. So we kind of talked about if you want to go back. So we know you want to go back, but what do you want to see in the future with missions, work for you personally?
Speaker 3:What I want to see personally for myself in mission work. Oh, that's a good question. As I think about it, I just want to see not only on mission work, but this is on the home front too I want to see God moving so strong that when I walk into a service or wherever I am at, whether it be on the mission field and I'd love to see this on the mission field that God's glory comes down so strong within the service that it'd be like an upper room experience. Amen, if you understand what I'm saying, Right?
Speaker 3:yeah, I understand what you're saying Just sitting in a full presence of God's glory and not being able to do anything.
Speaker 3:If I read in the Old Testament where the glory of God fell down so strong and the smoke filled the temple, where the glory of God fell down so strong and the smoke filled the temple and stories where the tabernacle was filled and churches were so in tune with God that God's glory come down and the fire department would show up at the churches to put out a fire. That wasn't there, right? I mean, that's what I would expect to see on mission services. I want to. I want to be in a service on a mission field where I can see a withered hand being healed or somebody who is deaf their ears being opened up. I mean, that is my heart's desire. Whether I see that or not is not going to change my outcome of who I am or what God has called me to do. But my expectations on my next trip is to see more of God's grace and goodness being delivered, more than what it was when I first went.
Speaker 2:Right, so last two questions and then we are going to be done with wrap this thing up. But I want to ask you how has missions affected your life?
Speaker 3:Oh, missions have drastically affected my life. I mean, I can't even other than hurting God and having anything on my mind when I walk into a store, wherever it is. A lot of times, whether I'm grocery shopping or whatever I'm doing, I'll walk down the aisle and I'm like, oh, I could see somebody somewhere else needing this. Right.
Speaker 3:And it has brought a new sense of God can use that for somebody, god can use that for somebody, god can use that for somebody Right. And a lot of times I'll see myself filling my card up with stuff that we can use, that God can use to minister to other people with in the heart of a mission work, right when God the decree was made, when Christ went up into the air and said go into all the world, preach the gospel. That is what's resonating with me right now in everything that I do. Go into all the world and, yeah, that's where my life is right now. I just because the mission work has changed my life completely around and I see things in a whole different aspect, a whole different light. Right.
Speaker 3:And I mean all of what God is doing, not only here in the US, but in all the world. Right.
Speaker 2:So that's about all the questions we got. I have one more. I'm going to ask you and this isn't really a question, I do this every podcast I'm going to give you a minute, or however long you want to take, and if there's anything I didn't ask you you'd like to say, if you want to give some closing remarks, this is your time to do it, so go ahead and I just appreciate the time.
Speaker 3:but I can't hear you A lot of times. To be honest, this is the first time I've ever done a podcast, first time I've ever put anything out like this, and I appreciate the opportunity of being able to give and talk about my mission work and where my heart is, where the Lord is leading me. If I could just leave anybody with one word of advice and I think I've said this a couple of times today if you're ever in doubt, try God. He will not sell you because I know he hasn't told me in my life many times that I've been down and out. I just call upon the name of the Lord and he is faithful and just there to be right there when I need him. Even in my darkest hour he was there with me, going through these situations with me. But if you have any doubt on mission work or whatever, find somebody there close to you that has been on a mission trip, both of you that have been on a mission trip and they will, they will.
Speaker 3:You can protect the best brother can. You can tell people all day long, but when you're there and you've experienced it, there's a whole different atmosphere, absolutely. And for those who can't go, I just encourage you to if you can't go or whatever, just encourage you to. If you can't go or whatever, talk to somebody who has been and they can give you personal insight in how it changed their life, because I know mission work changed my life and, like I said earlier, I can go to a store without thinking about what can I do next? Well, god wouldn't want me to do that, and that's kind of where my heart's desire is finding out the next place that God wants me to be.
Speaker 2:And with that we are going to wrap up this podcast. I would like to thank my guest, jamie McLean, for being able to be here and to end this podcast podcast. I have a little. Before I talked to you I had called brother Danny talking to him about this podcast, getting some questions figured out with him that I could ask you, and I got a little thing from him. He said I could tell you he wanted me to tell you he really appreciates and respects you for all your help with God's little one. We have had times where we needed money. He appreciates and respects you for all your help with God's little one. We have had times where we needed money and y'all have come through for us, so we really appreciate it. Thank you for being on this podcast today and giving us your time. God bless you and you have a good day.
Speaker 3:Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:Starting in Mark 5.25, it says If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole and straightway. The fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. We see this woman and she had an issue of blood and she tried going to the doctor. She spent her money but she could not get healed and she just kept getting worse. Well, we see here where she's following Jesus and she says to herself if I can touch his clothes, I can be healed. She had faith that God could heal her. So what did she do? She pressed in. There's a crowd around Jesus and she presses in and she, whatever she had to do, she was going to get to Jesus and she got healed because of that.
Speaker 2:There's a song and it says about this lady. It says, let me tell you the story about a woman with an issue, had it 12 long years, didn't know what to do. She heard about a man coming through her town. She fell to her knees and crawled on the ground. She said if I could only touch but the hem of his garment, I'm going to give it all I have in this moment. Now, that might not be the exact wording, but that's what it says. The part I want to say about that is it says I'm going to give it all I have in this moment.
Speaker 2:You know we talked earlier in this podcast about how willing the people in Honduras. We've seen them to get to a church service. We've seen them walk. We've had trucks loaded with people on the back of them and it is a sight to see. But they are willing to do it to get to a church service.
Speaker 2:And you know, I don't know who all listens to this podcast. I don't know what your problem is. I don't know what you're facing, what difficulties, what trials are going on, what battles are warring your mind. But I know that there is help in Jesus, there is help in the altar, there's help in the prayer closet. But we have got to be willing to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 2:We have got to get desperate. It's something very important. My dad has talked to me about this several times. We got to get desperate. If we want something. We can't just expect to just go pray in the altars or pray at home and be like oh Lord, I need help, please help me. We got to press, we got to seek. If we need something, then we have got to get consumed by getting that. Then we got to get consumed by worshiping Jesus. It's got to be important to us, more important than entertainment, more important than work. When we've got a trial we're facing, we've got to be important to us, more important than entertainment, more important than work.
Speaker 2:When we've got a trial we're facing, that has we've got to get desperate to get rid of it. We've got to get desperate to beat it. We, we can't, we, we can't let, uh, this world be the focus when we're fighting inside. We have got to press. We can't just get lax and just be like, oh, I'm going to get a touch. Or we can't just go to church and barely pray. If we need help, we got to seek for help.
Speaker 2:So, whatever you're facing today, I just encourage you, get desperate and seek for whatever it is that you need help with. Seek for a breakthrough, seek for the Holy Ghost, seek for a calling, seek for guidance. We all need something. So, whatever you need, seek for it. Now, this is not an excuse when you're in a trial. This is not an excuse not to do ministry. But we've got to do ministry and we've got to seek for what we are. We've got to seek for our breakthrough. We've got to get desperate for it. Our focus has got to be on God missions and getting a breakthrough. We've got to be focused on getting closer to God. If we get satisfied then we are going to fall. We can't get satisfied. We've got to get desperate to get better. We've got to get desperate to get closer to God. Desperate to pray harder. We have got to pray with all of our might. So I encourage you, with whatever you're facing today, get desperate, seek God, trust him for your breakthrough and don't let anything keep you from getting that.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One Podcast and, as I told you on the last episode, there was something in this episode that was just wild. I really, really hope y'all thought it was as awesome as I thought. When I did the podcast, I stopped and went backtracked and we talked about that. I just I stopped and went backtracked and we talked about that and that was something with the Holy ghost and with that Honduran speaking full fluent English. That's what I was saying on the last one. So I hope y'all enjoyed that. But yeah, uh, for any kind of couple, I will admit we did have some kind of. We might have had some audio issues with the phone and stuff and my audio kind of had like a weird uh sound to it. I apologize for that. Uh, it happens, I apologize for it, but yeah. So we hope you enjoyed this episode of the God's little one podcast.
Speaker 2:In our next episode we're going to be doing something that uh well, we'll see what y'all think about it we're going to be talking to brother Jared Clark and something about Jared. He's actually my uh, my cousin's husband and he is, uh, he's been on one mission strip in his entire life. He's been out of the country one time. He went with us and I actually got to go on that trip with him and it we're kind of going to. I'm kind of doing this as a way to get a fresh perspective of the missions work, of going on a trip for the first time. So I hope you all enjoy it. That'll be out not this coming Monday, but the next, as usual. So definitely be looking out for that podcast.
Speaker 2:Anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One podcast. If you'd like to call us or text us and ask us anything or anything like that, or just give us a shout out or tell us what you thought of the podcast, then our phone number is 318-491-1772, and if you'd like to send us any kind of donation or just some kind of mail or something, then our po box is po box 904, oakdale, louisiana, 71463. Any kind of donation, any kind of donation, any kind of encouragement or any kind of question. We really do appreciate it all. We thank y'all for it and, anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One Podcast. Y'all have a blessed day and we'll see you on the next podcast.