Curry Family Grows In Kenya!

I am sitting at the Nairobi Java House and in a few hours we will board a plane for home.

There is no way that I can describe this trip but over the next few days, i will try.

The highlight of the trip was an amazing moment in mine and Courtney's life.

As we readied to leave on of the orphanages one lone boy stood at the entrance by our vans. He was joined by his teachers in from the local school

His name is Heron. He is currently second in his class at school and sleeps on the streets at night. Both of his parents recently died of Aids and he goes to school studies hard and then fights for something to eat.

He had his papers from the local police chief, a plastic bag with all his belongings, barefoot, with one set of old clothes.

All he needed was someone to put up the $100 dollars and commit to $90 a month.

There was no decision to be made! This is what we were here for. I leaned down with Courtney and told Heron that today was his last day to be an orphan. His smile could not be controlled.

All that was left was for him to be tested and cleared for Aids, and Malaria... He passed... the grace of God.

I left him money for his first new outfit and a brand new pair of shoes.

It was one of the greatest moments of Courtney and My life!

When we left Heron waved from his new home... with plenty of food, shelter and friends.

There are many days that I get to see God change a life... this day we saw him save a life!

Hello From Kenya!

The street boys ares standing outside the cafe waiting for another shot at a few shillings. They are holding bottles of sniffing glue in one hand, and an open palm in the other. the glue helps them ease the pain. I have never seen this level of poverty but the pastors here have such a sense of hope. We traveled through the city where the civil war broke out one year ago. there is still much damage and pain. Many of the pastors lost half their church to death or desertion. One Pastor has rebuilt his church twice from Muslims.

The pastors conference has been amazing. Courtney and I helped a young pastor who is struggling to get enough money to marry. Here you have to purchase your wife and we helped him cut that expense in half.

Sleep is a new adventure... no air conditioning and malaria nets. But we are blessed to be here. Tommorrow i will preach at a church close to here... the pastors name is George. If we had grown up together we would be best friends.

I met Daniel... the pastor our rock creek students support. He is worth everything we have given and more. He started his church by giving the extra food he had in his house to the children in his community. When he would travel and speak somewhere they would give him food.... he would come home and pass it out. He is a man of great strength and as long as i live he will never go without food and shelter again.

Tomorrow afternoon we go to the boys orphanage. I am excited to see their faces and take them on in soccer.

I must go.. it is getting dark and the crowd is growing.

finish empty!

Jason

We Have Arrived!

Here we Go!

We are in the final stages of packing. I am getting tired but tired is good when you have a full day of flying ahead.

I am so blessed. There is no need... not one, that God has not provided.

I get to be the one that goes but so many are a part of it.

I can't wait to see what God is going to do!

Many of you are asking how you can pray...

1. That God will be glorified in this trip and through our team.
2. The Girls are safe at home
3. The Team is safe.

I will update this sporadically but never more than two days separation.

Finish Empty,

Jason

A Move or A Movement

The Beginning of every great movement begins with a problem that can't be ignored and is worth your life. These problems exist all over the world...

-Water in Africa
-Homelessness
-Sex trafficking

If a group of people gathers around a common solution - something special can happen. Everyone must believe in the solution and be willing to give everything they have to follow the vision. As the leader, if you get people to own the problem and solution, then you will have their hearts... if you just give them tasks, you will only have their hands.

Once a group of people throw their lives into being part of the solution... a movement begins.

Just as quickly as a movement begins... it can end. The enemy of the problem is arrival. When the problem ceases to exist - so does the movement.

The problem that Christians must throw their lives into is simple. "Without Jesus, there is no hope - and the world must hear that message. In every creative medium, every nation, in every tongue... that message must go.

The "sense of arrival" in ministries, buildings, or numbers... kills a movement. If there is no problem, no mission... then there is nothing worth giving your life for... and there could be nothing further from the truth.

This week, Rock Creek Students move into their first Student Ministry Facility. My burden, as the leader, is to make sure that everyone understands that this move - is not the end of the movement but the opportunity for bigger impact.

Do you find yourself apart of a movement? Do you remember when you believed in something so real you would give your life for it? All across the world, people are trying to create movements on things that have no eternal consequence. Christianity has nothing to create. It is the movement of our God that draws us to the highest passion and led his son to the Cross.

The Problem is Simple.

Lost People Need Hope.

The Solution is Simple

Hope has come, He is Christ!

Welcome Canvas!

Kenya-Still Help!

Courtney and I will be leaving in 52 days for Kenya to help lead a Pastors conference and minister to the orphans and the pastor that the Jason Curry Ministries helps support.

You can still be a part of it.

We have covered all of Courtney's travel through donations but we still need help in raising money to provide for needs in different locations as we travel.

This is one of the most important investments you could ever make and i hope that you will pray about partnering with us in ministry.

If you would like to give you can email me, jason@jasoncurry.org

You can also click the link to the right and give there through paypal.

The Next Generation

I have heard many leaders label the next generation of Christ Followers as a "sit and soak" generation.

I challenge that assessment.

The next generation wants to be a part of more than "just church." I believe they want to be a part of a movement worth living for and in some cases, dying for.

Students are volunteering across college campuses at an incredibly increasing rate. The number of college students volunteering grew by 600,000 from 2.7 million in 2002 to 3.3 million in 2005 and is now closing in on 5 million. That is an 85% increase in volunteering since 2002. The next generation wants to believe they be involved in something that matters.

They need leadership. They need to be challenged. They need someone to move them past simply throwing nickels at the worlds problems to getting involved, face-to-face, all across the world.

I decided to put this test with High School and Junior High students this Christmas.

The next generation responded.

The instructions were simple. Dream up something as a life group (guys & girls separated by grades) that will make an impact and then… GIVE!

-12th grade guys raised $3000 by doing yard work and spreading the word--to buy a single mom a new car

-10th grade girls gave their own money, $500, and bought Christmas for a family at Children’s Hospital

-7th grade girls helped decorate nursing home rooms for residents who do not have family.

-10th grade guys collected clothes, towels, and socks for the homeless.

-11th grade guys spent a Friday night investing in 6th grade guys.

The closer we get to the heart of God, the more we realize how much he cares about people and their real needs. The next generation wants to be a part of a passionate, authentic, life changing movement that cares about people and their real needs.

The great news is we don’t have to invent it. It is call Christianity!

Wal-Mart Christianity will never change the world. A group of people who show up once a week, quickly get what they need, pay as little as possible and then get out will never make an impact.

If movement of people will commit to sacrifice their time, gifts, abilities, resources, and all they have for the Gospel… they will become a movement that could change the world… and that is just what the next generation is longing for!