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MJEA is involved in different areas of ministry, but our main focus is reaching today's youth and families with a positive message and a message of hope. Community-wide crusades often bring about revival for the Church and many decisions for Christ. MJEA teaches families to establish Jesus Christ as the foundation for their relationships with each other. As a result, many families are healed and restored as they allow Jesus to have first place. When there seems to be no way, God makes a way! Mike reminds believers not to be ashamed or afraid to share the gospel with others.
Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes."
We were in 9 Virginia prisons in a 3 week period and spoke to roughly 7,000 inmates and had between 1300 - 1400 decisions for Christ. Also, Mike spoke in 4 high schools doing assemblies on drug abuse and character. We have planned a bigger and more intense outreach in the Virginia prisons in June 2004.
Prisons are where society tries to lock up problems. What's the answer? Will we just continue to lock people up until more are behind bars than not? Will those of us in the free world continue to pay and pay and pay to house more and more criminals? Where will it stop? Will it ever end? It can.
At Mike Jenkins Evangelistic Association, we have partnered up with Mike Barber Ministries to prove that the lives of all men and women, in prison and out, can be turned around. We see it every day. We reach them through crusades and outreaches, "Weekends of Excitement." We have found that when people have a sense of worth and a feeling of purpose for their lives, they will naturally begin to work toward fulfilling it. All they need is a chance. Will you help us give them one?
...lives of all men and women, in prison and out, can be turned around!
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. Matthew 25:35-36
Mike Jenkins Evangelistic Association is deeply committed to the youth of the world It is to this end that the Association in general and Mike specifically is involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Mike is recognized as one of the leaders and organizers of morning prayer groups in public schools all across this nation. He encourages teens to take a bold stand for God and not be ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mike shares his life story at FCA assemblies and speaks about how he came to meet Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. The Association is constantly looking for opportunities for involvement in the FCA.
Mike Jenkins' in-school program is a dramatic and powerful presentation consisting of Mike telling his life story. The presentation is a non-offensive, secular program designed to address the drug and alcohol issues facing each individual school or group. The information that Mike provides is legally accurate, and the people and places he talks about are real. This program has made an impact on each and every school that Mike has shared it in. Mike addresses between 125,000 - 200,000 students every year in public schools. Mike confronts the teens about the choices they make on a daily basis and that we suffer the consequences of those choices whether it be bad or good.
In January 2005, we made our first visit to Nakuru, Kenya. This first trip was so successful that the Vice President of Kenya personally thanked us for our interaction and welcomed us back in 2006. The response was astounding. Lisa Watson McCarty of the Associated Press shares, "MJEA believed they were prepared for the sights, scents and sound of West Africa, (but) the reality of the pilgrimage was an experience they will never forget." MJEA had the opportunity to speak to over 51,000 Africans in only six days, with over 12,000 of those being saved. The ministry traveled to nine different schools and was even granted permission to visit with prison inmates in some of the country's roughest jails. Never before had any ministry been allowed into the Kenyan prisons.
Our 2007 trip was blessed with expansion into even more schools and prisons. And we were privileged to open up an additional Children's Ministry and visit the orphanage in Nakuru. We are excited about what God will do in Africa in 2008!