eMi: A Non-profit Christian Development Organization

Jason Reinhardt
International Administration Manager
Mechanical Engineer
(719) 633-2078 x. 111 voice
(719) 633-2970 fax
jreinhardt@emiusa.org

Office : World Headquarters (Colorado Springs, USA)

My Story
I first came to EMI serving as an Intern. After 2 semesters I felt God call me to come on Staff, and I couldn’t have been more pleased. I had really come to love the people here and my heart really reached out to those EMI served.

I have helped serve EMI in many capacities from learning and becoming the Financial Coordinator to Project Leader to Assistant to the CEO and now as the International Administration Manager. I have also been given the opportunity to initiate the Building Sponsorship Program for EMI.

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

Age: 27

Years at EMI: 4

Family
I am currently single. My parents and sister still live in NJ where I grew up. My sister is married and has a son, Gavin, and a daughter, Cosette.

Professional Training and Experience
BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delaware.

Ministry Experience
I been to 17 countries, 7 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.

All of my ministry experience has been with EMI. Originally, as young Christian, I struggled with the way the Great Commission was being fulfilled. I felt ministry should be an act of love, which shines the light of Jesus, not a crusade, which measured success by a body count of converts. My view has softened as I understand the different parts of the body of Christ, but this view has made my calling more clear: to serve the poor by fulfilling their physical and spiritual needs.

If God told me to live long term in a cross-cultural setting, the country I would chose...
Hmmm… I have a heart for Africa, but I 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.

Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.