We were privileged to meet Jack Belin on Tuesday, March 16 an Assemblies of God missionary working with The Convoy of Hope. Jack grew up in the pentecostal church, he says he doesn't remember a time in his life when he wasn't serving God and received his call at the age of five years old! I can relate to Jack because my parents were very active in children's ministry and many other ministries in the church. I was at the church Sunday - Saturday, it was my second home. I grew up with the view that ministry is not an option, I feel so blessed to have grown up with such great parents who instilled a good foundation in me, I am sure Jack feels the same way. Jack is a graduate of Valley Forge Christian College, he attended the school back when it was Eastern Bible Institute. Jack married his wife, Georgia and they pastored in Pennsylvania before they served for a while as missionaries in Bolivia. God did a lot in Jacks hear at that time and changed His life. In Bolivia Jack worked with the unloved, with the hungry, disease, and prisoners, they even started a school for prisoner's kids as well as a ministry school for prisoners. Jack understands the worlds need in a greater way than most people. He is now the Director of the World Food Program with the Convoy of hope and travels all around the world providing food for the hungry, and of course providing them with the opportunity to know the Bread of Life and the Living Water. Jack doesn't view the church as a building, but as a body of believers, and says "Any church that does not lead people to Jesus has no right to call itself a church." His number one ministry is love, he talks about the kind of love in the Bible we know as agape, the way we should love unconditionally how Jesus does.
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