Jaynee Sam, like Josh, made her second mission trip to Yap this summer. Jaynee was also a member of the Voices of Micronesia Team in the summer of 2010. On this trip Jaynee was mainly responsible for leading music, playing guitar and was one of the team’s cooks. She also helped with sports ministry, “I played a lot of volleyball,” and, like all the team members, focused on building relationships with the Yap youth. For Jaynee the trip was also a family reunion where she met her brother Jonathan, PIU graduate, teacher at Yap High School and church worker, and her sister in law Charity Sam, who is our Yap TF office manager. Charity’s father is Asael Ruda who has served a missionary from Chuuk to Yap for the last 20 years.
Jayne says her favorite thing about the trip was “facing and overcoming challenges including spiritual warfare and disagreements among team members.” She was very pleased that “everyone was able to be open and share their differences. The arguments and challenges made us closer.”
She loved spending time with the Yapese girls during the retreats. Relationships made during last year’s trip were “made deeper.” The first year laid a good foundation for very meaningful ministry this year. She also enjoyed being with family. For the first time she got to “just sit with my older brother and talk.”
Jaynee was thankful for the training she received at PIU. She had just taken the spiritual warfare class this past Spring and “I was prepared for what happened.” She was “able to encourage others because I was not scared.” She was also “used to it from living in the islands.” “Christ has already defeated the darkness. We only make them powerful when we fear them and let them deceive us.”
She was also thankful for what she had learned about how to organize a team in the classroom and that she was able to gain experience in doing it on the trip. “All PIU students should go on a ministry trip because it is one thing to hear about being a leader in the classroom, but it is another thing to really do it.”
She also shared how she had a “real experience of God answering prayer.” She needed to be in Chuuk this week for a family wedding but had given up because no seats were available. In fact, she decided that “I needed to love God more than family and trust Him to provide if he wanted me to go.” She then got a message that she had a ticket and a seat on the plane and is now in Chuuk for the wedding. She also had a major life event while on the trip. She was baptized by Pastor Asael last Monday. She “had never been baptized before” and realized her need to be obedient in baptism “from my PIU Doctrine classes.”
Jaynee graduated from PIU just last month and will spend some time in Chuuk to wait and see what direction God will lead her now. She asks for prayer that God will show her “what to do next.”
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