Jackie's Journey "Money Talks!"

Life is simply a stewardship, not an ownership; a trust, not a gift.  With a gift you may do as you please, but with a trust, you must give an account. (Eph. 2: 10) This is the beginning of the holiday season when we begin spending money on gifts and essentials that make this time of year delightful and challenging. Thanksgiving, after-all, is next week! 

 John McArthur has a tape called “Mastery of Materialism”. He said, “16 out of 38 of Christs parables deal with money.  More is said in the New Testament about money than Heaven and Hell!  Five times more is said about money than prayer.  There are 500 plus verses on prayer and faith, but there are 2,000 verses dealing with money and possessions.”  Obviously, the point is the Bible has much to say about money management!

 There are four basic biblical principles of money management in Matthew 25: 14-30.  They summarize much of what the Bible has to say regarding money and stewardship.  The first is simple…God owns it all!  Hence, He has the right to whatever He wants, whenever He wants it. It’s all His and the Owner has rights and I, a steward, have only responsibility.

 A good example of this is when my daughter started driving my car.  I’m the owner; my daughter has only privilege, while I maintain all respnsibility.  I can take it back for any reason, at any time. In the same way, every single possession that I have comes from His hand.  I possess much, but own nothing.

 Stewardship is the God-given resource for the accomplishment of God-given goals.  It is an active definition, not theoretical. It acknowledges God’s ownership over my possessions and His direction of my use of these resources. Not only is my “giving” decision a spiritual one, but “spending” decisions are also.  There is nothing more spiritual about giving than buying a car, taking a vacation, buying food, paying off a debt, paying taxes, paying for college…These are all uses of His resources. 

 The Bible reveals many specific guidelines, as to how the Owner wants His property used.  You can’t fake stewardship!  Our checkbooks reveal all that we really believe about guardianship.  A life story could be written from a checkbook.  It reflects: goals, priorities, convictions, relationships, use of time… A person can fake prayer, Bible study, evangelism…but, the checkbook reveals all!  Could that be why so many are secretive about personal finances?

 The second money management tenet is that God uses money as a tool to teach us, as a test of our trustworthiness andas a testimony to distinguish us from the world.  The third rule is not the amount we have but how we handle what God has entrusted to us and lastly, the fourth, is that stewardship requires faith and volitional action.

 My husband has always said, “You can’t take it with you, but you can send it ahead”.  “Lay not up…treasures on earth, but lay up for yourselves in heaven…for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matt. 6: 19-21)   His point…invest in eternity! (Lu. 16: 1-9)

 There are five weeks before Christmas.

 Our stewardship of His resources will come to light…

 How are we living life?

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "The Fourth Quarter!"

The frantic frog fighting for his life, as is the heron!

 It’s fall and Football season is here again. In most sports, there is a “fourth” quarter which determines the outcome of the game.  Some of us are approaching, or in, that fourth quarter, in terms of our remaining productive years.  Should we continue vocationally active into our seventies and eighties, we had roughly twenty-five to thirty years to make our personal mark on what is here, and on those who pick up our life-work and values. 

 As a young person, I remember visiting my grandparents and thinking they were years away from me because I was only in the first quarter.  The fourth quarter was sooo far away that I could not even visualize what it must be like.

 Yet, here it is…

 My husband has always said, “We are going to just burn out serving, Jackie.”  He will be sharing Christ on his death bed…I just know it!  When the Beatles sang “when I’m sixty-four,” we could scarcely imagine such a thing (that was really old!), but now, it’s in sight or we have already passed it!  So…what have we done in the first three quarters?? Did we make the world a better place or life better?  The final count is out…

In spiritual terms, we will reap what we have sown. (Gal. 6: 7) We will each be held accountable for our deeds here on earth. (Rev. 22: 12) If there was ever a need for followers of Christ (especially, fourth quarter believers!) to persevere, be resolute in purpose, uncompromising for truth, persistent in faith, unyielding in hope, constant in love, and unstoppable in advancing the kingdom…it is NOW!

 Just reaching the last quarter of life is a gift…a life-span “may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures.” (Psa.90: 10) Often, there are health and financial challenges. Or failure to see the divine purpose in aging.  Many reach this milestone and sense the inevitable invisibility by the people and culture around them.  They sit back and just resolve to wait out the remaining time…while sacrificing what could be the best years of their lives!

 In reality, we are all living in the last quarter because we are not guaranteed even another day. We are told to “number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psa. 90: 13) Hence, the need to focus in and live as if every day might be our last.

 Any regrets?

 What legacy will be left?

 Is there a plan to finish the course and its God- given purpose?

 We are the “never give up” generation…

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "How Evil is Evil?"

The worlds in turmoil.

 There is a created stress producing evil and the instability

is rampant with unrest all around us.

People are struggling, looking for answers…

 And we have them!!

 Everyone has their own system of seeking truth in resolving issues and understanding circumstances around them.  There are a lot of lies out there!

 Do you want solutions?  How do you recognize the truth?

 Our universal and only true God has taught us how find answers. To level the playing field and see evil for what it is from God’s perspective, let’s look at how God defines it…“we do EVIL because we did not set our heart to seek the Lord”. (2 Chron. 12: 14)  

 To seek the Lord is a present progressive verb, meaning… an ongoing, never-ending action.  If we want answers to the mayhem and disorder around us…we connect with Him daily in His Word.    We are robbing God and ourselves by not “setting our heart to seek Him”!   We are created to fulfill what we, with Him, are commissioned to do.  Our designed purpose is “to do the will of God on earth, even as it is being done in Heaven”.  Matthew 6:10 “We are created for a life of good works that He has prepared before-hand for us to do”. Ephesians 2:10

 He wants to supply for His family, like any good father, as His family yields to His will and ways. We are to “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (and all these things will be added to us”) …”for this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or drink; nor for your body what you will put on. Are you not worth more than the birds and the lilies…”(mentioned above v. 27-32) Matthew 6:33  

 Evil is doing our own thing.  We have two choices:  Wisdom from above that comes as we seek Him or wisdom from below that is evil, Satanic, selfish, proud, and envious.  We cannot separate selfishness and pride from Satan. James 3:13-15 We are given clear understanding that setting our heart to seek Him teaches us that sacrificing our will and desires requires a surrendering to God’s will, bringing us into His will and our purpose. Romans 12:1,2

 In Matthew there was a group of people doing their version of God’s will, but doing it their own way.  Matthew 7:21,22Christ said, “depart from me, I never knew you.” They were doing, what appeared to be the same as the apostles, but it was in self-oriented, satanic power. 

 Who discerned that?  The Lord Jesus did!

 How do we know we are “setting our heart to seek Him?”

 What is His will, in general, for all believers?   Fish for men. Matt 4:19   Walk in the Spirit. Gal 5:16   Seek Him in the Scriptures daily to understand our calling.  It always involves service.  He came to serve, not to be served.  He lives in the believer to continue to do just that. If you are focused on all of the evil that is happening around you or the turmoil of circumstances that are incumbering you…set your heart to seek Him and know He has the answer and is waiting to give it to you…

 Who are you seeking today?

 He is the same today, yesterday and forever.

 (an adapted study from Ralph Johnson)

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "It's A Choice!"

We have all heard and probably repeated the old adage which is the biblical proverb, “Where there is no vision, the people languish and perish”.  (Pro. 29: 18) I have been focused on the vision God has for my life since I was in college.  It wasn’t until I understood that God has a designed vision for me that He makes available to any woman who desires to be a godly woman, wife and mom, powerful in her influence, firm in her faith. 

 “He has given us everything we need to live a godly life…” (II Peter 1:3)

(So, there are no excuses for patterns of failure!)

 There are two powers in relationships given by God that dominate the world.  The first is the power of authority.  It’s not a choice, its positional.  The second is the power of influence, which is a choice.  Which one is the greater or more powerful of the two?   The power of influence is the greater power because it is a choice and it chooses to have power over another person. Have you ever thought about it?  The man was given the power of authority and the women the power of influence. (Gen. 16:3)

 What determines our influence?

How is our power manifested?

 For good or evil, we woman are influencing ALL THE TIME.  We are a letter and “we are known and read of all men”. (II Cor. 3: 2) Others are always watching to see the REAL us through our responses to life’s situations and our attitudes which result in actions. We have been given a wonderful gift to benefit others, if we chose…

 In order to exercise the power of influence to glorify God and live-in harmony with others, we need to take a look at our attitudes.  “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important that facts.  It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.  It will make or break a company…a church…a school…a home.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace that day.  We cannot change the past…we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude.  I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

 And so, it is with you (and I)…we are in charge of our attitudes.” (Charles Swindoll)

Have you captured His vision for you?

How are you exercising that vision ?

Your life is your message to the world…make sure its inspirational!

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Tactics and Strategies!"

Who’s the Target??

 When you look around, what do you see?  When you listen to the news, what do you hear? When you have opportunity, what do you share? It is nearly impossible to find a person living today that is not confused, disappointed, disallutioned, and seeking a reasonable answer to all the chaos in our world today.  Everyone has a complaint, an opinion, a proposed resolution or a persuasive argument.   There are tactics and strategies galore, but most miss the mark of the core issue.

 There is a line of attack aimed at a deliberate target.  The tactics have always been the same.  It is a direct assault on our mind, body, will, heart and conscience.  The strategy is lies, suffering, accusation and pride.  Its purpose: to energize the human race toward sin and lives that are lived independent of God.  It makes us ignorant of God’s will through pride and suffering, not to forget, Satan’s pacing “to and FRO” talking to God about us with the intent of bringing an indictment.

We are the target!

 Though the Devil roars and flexes his muscle among the nations, it is encouraging to remember the truth that he is a created being, not equal with God, and that he has already been defeated by the Lord Jesus Christ!  When Jesus died on the cross, was buried, then rose again, Satan’s power over believing men was broken once and for all. “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Col. 2:15 

 Do you want victory over the devil’s strategy?  Satan’s tactics have always been the same.  Both Satan and God speak to us with soundless “thought bombs”.  We call them temptations.  Everyone gets them.  One is for destruction and one is for blessing to benefit others.  Satan will tempt us in the areas we have opened up to him. “Lust of the eye, lust of the flesh and the pride of life.”  He’s been busy! Does this look like his work, when you look around at the world today?  When you listen to world solutions to complex, upside-down problems?  When you see violation of biblical principles on every side and in every arena? Where each man’s opinion and lie are openly received by his own standard of truth?

 If we learn that each temptation can be matched with a specific person’s need and we turn it into a prayer of salvation for that person, we will kill the power of that temptation and Satan will run for fear that “the prayer given will avail much” and that person will come to faith.  Satan’s has one strategy: he has come to steal your life, kill your soul and destroy your relationships. (Jn. 8:44)  He cannot be a willing part of building your prayer life!

 We are victors in HIM!

 Let’s learn to use Satan for God’s glory!

Learn to fight or be defeated…

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "It Takes More Than Chains!"

This past June I received a letter from dear friends and missionaries that struck a chord.  As I make ill attempts to reconcile this upside down, backwards culture, I am reminded of the one true, unchanging standard by which I am to position myself to judge.  Everyone is screeching for freedom…freedom to abort their child, freedom to cross a border illegally, freedom to live however they want…on the street, in a house, on the open road in a motorhome, freedom to educate their children…freedom…freedom… No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second.  Harold Lindsell  

 “The Bible records one of the most dramatic accounts of being set free imaginable! There was a demon-possessed man who could not be controlled, even with chains!  The Scriptures declare that he had been “often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him.”  Nothing could subdue this man!  But Jesus drove the evil spirits from this man, saved and set him free and made a new person out of him.  The truth of the Bible is meant not merely to inform, but also…to transform.

 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him.  This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.  For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet.  No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.’ Mk. 5: 2-7NIV

 It takes more than chains to make a man what he ought to be.  Our society is filled with social programs attempting to deal with the unleashed violence, wickedness and lawlessness of our generation.  Drugs are produced to help suppress irrational behavior.  Treatment programs are prescribed the condition the addicted are to believe and that he will never be anything other than what he has always been.  Prisons and jails are constructed to restrain the violent or habitual offender.  The truth is that none of these measures can or will solve the problem.  Incarceration is a necessary part of the judicial system, but it only deals with the symptoms, not the root cause!

 Only Jesus can break the chains and deliver

the sinner from the sin that binds him.

This is true for every life.

 There is an unconverted need for the Gospel of Christ and the transforming power of salvation. Some are not bound by violent behavior, but are equally enslaved by their pride, prejudice or trust in a false religion that holds no hope…”

 What chain binds you today?

 It takes more than chains to bind us to sin, when HE came to set us free!

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom and freedom is

the knowledge of our own ignorance.  Charles Spurgeon

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Cultural Suicide!"

There is a godly man in the Old Testament called “The Weeping Prophet” because of the immense sorrow he felt over the destruction of the nation of his people.  His name was Jeremiah. I am feeling like Jeremiah this morning!  As much as, I would like to blame big government for the current confusion and distress in our country, we are a nation that has “followed the stubborn inclination of our own hearts!”   We have become stiff-necked and deaf to the God-given promise that is ours, IF we would but return to His management and direction and “obey His commands (clearly written in His Word) and walk in obedience to His leadership and …(wait for it)…ALL WOULD GO WELL WITH US!” 

 Our nation has not listened to the God, who by-the-way, created and owns this universe; but instead, has adopted and accepted detestable practices, contrary and in violation to God’s teaching…sexual immorality (adultery and fornication), impurity(slander), lust (pornography), evil desires (perverted life-styles and child-trafficking), woke ideology and self-indulgence…all of which, God calls idolatry!  This list only mentions a few of the deceptions that have led us astray.  Let’s not forget the current appetite for abortion, drugs, alcohol, and witchcraft…  You fill in the blank…it’s exhaustive!   

 Truth has vanished.  Lies and deception prevail.

 Has the Lord rejected and abandoned this generation?  Our culture has idols on every level…everywhere!   The cry of Jeremiah was “but my people do not know the requirement of the Lord”.  Contrarily, we have no excuse because we are warned in Colossians, “See to it that no one takes you captive with hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world (Satanic), rather than on Christ (who is Head over every power and authority, including Satan!).  Disarming the worlds power and authority (Satan), triumphing over them by the cross.” (Col. 2: 15)

 The wounds of this nation and its people are being addressed today, as though they are not serious; but instead, culturally acceptable and carry no consequence!  There is little shame, not even a blush, for the perversion of a nation once founded on Godly principles.

 “Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people?”

cried Jeremiah in his day. (Jeremiah 8)

 The answer is easy…” For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me in repentance and I will listen to you.  You will seek me with all your heart and I will be found by you…”   Jeremiah 29:11-12               

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Life Unraveling!"

                   “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in Him…Job 13:15”                               

 Our village was tucked away near the Colombian border and we lived in the silence of the jungle and its peculiar sounds.   One late morning there was an unfamiliar roar in the distance.  A large helicopter appeared and began circling our village, dropping low, looking for a place to land.  Before we knew what was happening, dust flew and the door slid open.  Men dressed in full military uniforms with machine guns jumped out and stormed into our house. Guns drawn, pointed directly at us, they began shouting commands with accusations!

 My life started unraveling before my eyes!  I quickly grabbed little Kim and Christina came running, clutching my legs. I reached down to reassure her, as Ralph stepped in front of us, whispering to me, “Remember, Jackie, this touched God’s hand first”. 

 We were being accused of being spies for the United States and they demanded we turn over our only means of communication to the outside world…our two-way radio!

I was trembling, imagining every plausible scenario of how we could be easily disposed of in the river and no one would know for months!  The truth that came surging into my consciousness was Job 13:15, “…though he slay me, yet will I hope in HIM”. 

 Still standing between the enemy and us, Ralph appeared calm and was responding in Spanish with an absolute, “We are not spies from America.  We have permission from your government to bring medicine to help this isolated group of people.” 

                              How had this happened?  What could we do?

 The next few moments stood still…their shouting gestures and my seeing no way of escape brought the verse in Job home to my heart.  I resolutely accepted His will, whatever that was going to be and instantly, peace prevailed.  What happened next was beyond belief!  To our utter astonishment, as abruptly as those militant soldiers barged in…they hastily, mid-sentence, without another word, turned and left!!  They did not ask for our passports or visas, nor did they take our rifles that were in plain view, hanging on the wall!  God had blinded their eyes, and in an instant, redirected their path.

 In the aftermath of my processing through this current event, Ralph gave me a definition for “tribulation” that comes to mind every time I am faced with a trial and I just want it gone…no processing…just gone!  “Tribulation is God’s fastest road to maturity”.  Well… missionary life had definitely put me in the fast lane to grow up!  The more life I live, the more I realize how much growth I need!

 This is that definition in a “mathematical” formula that changed my life and the way I look at trials, inconveniences, suffering and contentment.  It goes like this:

 Trials + Acceptance of the trial with joy and thanksgiving = Growth/Maturity

 I can respond to trials:

1.     By Benefitting from them

          The pressure of trials produces (Jas. 1:2-4):

2.     With Faith

3.     With Patience

4.     With Perseverance

5.     With Maturity

6.     With Wisdom

where I am …Lacking Nothing!

 OR

  Reacting to them and locking down emotionally with:  Impatience, Fretfulness, Why me?, Depression, Complaining, Rebelliousness or bitterness. 

 I choose to yield with gratefulness this morning and to recognize any form of tribulation, as a means to create a greater purpose in my life for the benefit of others. 

  What is your response? 

Jackie's Journey "Authentic Answerability!"

Are you a Mom of a prince or princess?  Albert Schweitzer said, “An example is not the main thing in influencing others…it is the only thing.”  We teach what we know, BUT we reproduce what we are!  We should never under estimate the power of our influence…both for good and evil.

 On a scale of 1-10 how would you say you are using your power of influence for good, mom?  What would your children say?  With the multitude of distractions from the world and its cultural pressure to sway you to adopt what your conscience has already told you is wrong…”how ya’ doin?”

 “Without a vision the people perish.” Pro. 29: 18   What is your vision for your child?  “We have been created in Christ Jesus for a life of good works that he has already prepared for us to do.” Do you sense God’s vision for us and our children in that verse?  Do you hear the destiny and purpose in that promise? 

 Each child entrusted to us by God has a personal destiny and specific purpose, as you do.   My children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are the fulfillment of my vision for the future.  My investment today will determine the fulfillment of that determination…tomorrow.

 Authentic answerability is taking responsibility for becoming the godly mother with a sacrificial heart that will walk carrying the burden of HIS heart. That makes being a mom a doable task empowered by our God that can and will do it, when we are yielded to His leadership and submitted to HIS vision and purpose for us and our children.  I Thess. 5: 24

 Can you hear the clear voice of God when He speaks to you?  He speaks in ideas.  The most important aspect of motherhood is learning to hear and respond to HIS promptings and to teach your child to do the same.  Are you acquainted with that still quiet voice?  “Be still and know that I am God” is written with promise, direction and intentional purpose.

 If you are a mother, you have a calling from God.  God entrusting into your care…a life, a future, a piece of what the world will become.  For those of you who have entered the battle with a vision and often feel overwhelmed…“let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we will reap, if we faint not” for “His divine power has given us everything we need…” Gal. 6:19; II Pet. 1: 3

 Will you take time to listen to that “still quiet voice” this week?

Those little feet stepping into your footsteps are counting on it…

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Dimmed Vision"

As women, we face daily the threat of being derailed from our calling and designed purpose. As moms, we face the same fate of a dimmed vision and a protracted destiny.  We fight to maintain our goal and the priorities it takes to reach our intentional target and we carry the responsibility of those “little feet” energetically following us.

“You may never abuse your children,  or turn them out on the street or fail to feed and clothe them, but the viewpoint of the current generation may have left its mark on your mothering with loss of vision, absence of conviction, compromise, self-centeredness, lack of commitment,  self-pity, laziness, frequent parental absence or pre-occupation with your own interests, activities and concerns…”

 Here are five non-exhaustive questions that will keep the vision for our heritage alive:

 1.     Will my child look back at life and say, “my mother was a godly woman who walked in the light”, obedient to and living by scriptural truth?” II Pet. 1:3

2.      Did she read and study me “like a book” and purpose to build godly character in me? “We are known and read by all men”.  II Cor. 2: 2

3.     Did she enable me to see my purpose in life by learning to hear the voice of God and encouraging me to walk in it?

4.     Did she teach me to redeem the time and use it wisely…because time is short?

5.     Did she train me to walk with biblical conviction, accepting rejection from peers and the world as standard?

 These five basic questions will reveal your current effectiveness as a mom. Your dedication to the preparation of your heritage and the equipping of them to enter a tumultuous world is key.  I watched my two daughters grow and marry and give me grandchildren.  I am currently watching those seven grandchildren graduate from college, get married and fly away!  I am held responsible until the third or fourth generation…

 Are we keeping the vision connected to our calling

(as a Mom, Grand-mom , Aunt…) or has our vision dimmed?

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.