Director of Volunteer Development
Mechanical Engineer
(719) 633-2078 x. 111 voice
(719) 633-2970 fax
Office : World Headquarters (Colorado Springs, USA)
Serving with EMI
I have helped serve EMI in many capacities from the Financial Coordinator to Project Leader to Assistant to the CEO to International Operations Manager and now as the Director of Volunteer Development. I have a passion to empower people into ministry so they can use the talents which God has gifted them.
EMI Project Portfolio
Czech Republic (Dlohly) Conference and Retreat Center
Sierra Leone (Freetown) Orphanage
Honduras (Tegucigalpa) School for the Deaf
Honduras (Tegucigalpa) Orphanage and Church
Uganda (Kumi) Children's Center
Ethiopia (Gewada) Water Pipeline Design
Ethiopia (Sendafa) Child Development Training Ctr
Asia School, Church, Medical Ctr
India (Ongole) Village Church Project
East Asia Greenhouse, Phase 2
Kenya (Nyanza Province) Medical Clinic
Born:
Jason- September 9, 1979
Jalina- November 26, 1979
I started at EMI: September 2002
Family
Jalina and I got married on May 31, 2008. We first met at a small group that I was leading through New Life Church. Our first date was a hike to the Punchbowls at Glen Eyrie, CO. Two years later we got engaged at a private dinner in the castle at the same location. We are currently enjoying marriage without children.
My parents still live in NJ where I grew up. My sister lives in Connecticut, is married, has a son, Gavin, and a daughter, Cosette.
Professional Training and Experience
BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delaware. Jalina is a Registered Nurse and has been able to travel with me on an EMI trip to Kenya where I designed a Medical Center and she conducted medical training to the local women and midwives.
Ministry Experience
I been to over 20 countries, half of those with EMI. My desire to serve internationally started in college during my study abroad trip to South Africa where I helped serve in an under-funded orphanage. Many of the children were orphaned because their parents’ died because of AIDS...
which meant they were born HIV positive. It was on that trip that I found it more fulfilling to satisfy people’s needs than to satisfy people’s wants.
All of my international ministry experience has been with EMI. As I grow to understand the different parts of the body of Christ, my calling has become more clear: to serve the poor by fulfilling their physical and spiritual needs.
I am a licensed minister through New Life Church where I have served in many leadership capacities mostly in the small group system.
If God told me to live long term in a cross-cultural setting, the country I would chose...
Jalina and I have a heart for Africa, but we would have a hard time choosing one country specifically.
Verses to Live By
Philippians 2:5-9
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name.
Matthew 6:33
Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
