This episode features Jason Fenton, Groups and Missions leader of Abundant Life and very faithful brother in Christ.

He came to Abundant Life in a roundabout way. After being taken in by Chelsea Glover’s parents while in Texas, he met Pastor Chad Glover at a holiday gathering, and agreed to come to speak at Abundant Life in Lee’s Summit, MO. Faithfully trusting God, he decided to move to MO and pursue volunteering and working at Abundant Life.

Being a pastor’s kid, Jason grew up surrounded by Christians and Christian culture in Texas but came to the knowledge of Christ through his older sister explaining the gospel to him. He got baptized at a young age but it was in college that he would learn to make his faith his own.

He went on a mission trip with a friend from college, to help refugees escape the country of South Sudan, even flying with them on helicopters. He loved the adventure of it all, so he applied for the International Missions Board, where he was fully funded to go on missions, and trained as well.

Jason went to the Amazon to help tribes evangelize to unknown groups. On the four-day long boat trip there from base camp, they were hijacked and robbed, having guns on their backs. Not knowing what the next moments held for him while he was kidnapped and separated from his team, he prayed that God would help them somehow. Thirty minutes later they regrouped and were helplessly witnessing their robbery, but still had their lives! A spirit of boldness from the Lord came upon Jason and his teammates, they started sharing the gospel with these thieves. They left with all their items.

A little while later the thieves came back, gave them back some items, and asked for forgiveness! Jason and his team were miraculously able to drive the boat back to base camp with only the five gallons of gas that remained. They were able to complete their original mission of reaching the tribes to equip for evangelism.