The Weight of Hope

The Weight of Hope
With Jen & Phil Snell

For 11 years Phil and Jen Snell along with their two children (now grown people) Luke and Faith, have served as long-term missionaries in João Pessoa (JEH-WOW PESS-OAH) Brazil. For the past seven years, they have been working with women trapped in the sex trade.
Nearly all the women they work with are mothers and their children are often their driving motivation for what they do.
A mother in need will do almost anything to protect and provide for her children.
What starts as a means to a desperate end, becomes a quicksand-like trap they can’t see a way out of. This is where Jesus and Hope Ministries come in. Holding hope for those without it, they meet them where they are and love them enough not to leave them that way.

Hope Ministries works towards seeing women able to find new ways to sustain themselves and most of all, introducing them to a relationship with the saviour who has the power to transform their lives.
The slow work of the Kingdom.
Gratefully, after many hours and countless conversations and prayers they are starting to see women successfully leaving that life.

Jen and Phil will share their experiences and God-sized visions for the future of the ministry.