Hola Mi Amor!

Hola Mi Amor y mi HMA familia!

Como estas? Happy Wednesday! Blessings, blessings, blessings to each of you. Man, this one is a long time coming and I already know there will have to be layers, or continuing posts of Jesus, Horses & Lives Changed!!! Welcome to those of you that are first time visitors and to everyone else that hasn’t already read all about my Walk-On-A-Thon I was doing earlier this year, scroll back and read some of my previous posts to catch you up.

When I tell you that God showed up and showed OUT for me throughout my Walk-On-A-Thon!!! My Lord, I thank You! This awareness walk aka “faith, fitness and fund raiser” was my leap of faith to take action toward attending the 2025 International Ranch Ministry Conference and Fellowship that I just knew He was calling me to attend. I couldn’t afford this trip in the natural, but I believed God wholeheartedly that He was going to make a way out of no way for me to be able to be in attendance! And He did just that hallelujah!

First of all, who even knew there were faith-based equine communities and that they have been out here gathering for conferences for over a decade?! Well praise God that He brought me through my research to find some biblically based equine programs and one of which was Ashley Boswell’s Shepherd Youth Ranch and Shepherd Academy! If you know me at all- you already know I reached out to Ms. Ashley to tell her how much I love her programs. Then God led me to Facebook where I found the International Ranch Ministry (IRMC) and the Christian Horse Show Association (CHSA)!

God knew EXACTLY what He was doing! Aligning me with both the CHSA and the IRMC has been an absolutely transformative part of my life in this season. I finally found a place where people really get me and 2 of the things I undoubtedly love the most- Jesus and horses + the 3rd thing we all need, community!

I quickly became a very active follower of both of these organizations’ Facebook pages, leaving comments on the upcoming conference posts like,

I am believing God to make a way for me to be there with all of you!

It was encouraging to see others liking my comment or replying that they were believing God with me. One day I received a message from Ashley Boswell. She asked if I was free to chat. We scheduled our call for a FriNay when I would already be out at Equine-Assisted Therapy (EAT) riding. On my way home we finally connected! Ashley laughed as she shared how she doesn’t normally do this and that God told her to reach out to me. We realized we had a lot in common and just had such an incredible time chatting and exchanging stories. I could not WAIT to meet Ashley in person and learn from her at the conference! So, Ashley let me know that she would be connecting me with Alison Boyd the founder of the IRMC to see how she may be able to assist me in any of the accommodations I still needed.

Meanwhile, during this whole time I decided to shift from my church’s midweek 30-minute prayer Zoom call to the CHSA’s weekly Bible Study on Thursday evenings via Zoom at 6pm CST. You could have NEVER told me that I would be eager all week to be on about a 90 min. virtual Bible Study and fellowship every single Thursday with people I had never met! But this call is special. I am surrounded by men and women from all over the United States and abroad that love Jesus, love horses and show so much love to one another. Every week we create a deeper level of intimacy and connectedness with one another through our introductions, exchanges in the chat, competitive Kahoot of both Bible and horse trivia and our prayer requests as we wrap up our time together in prayer.

It was wonderful seeing Alison on our CHSA Zoom calls and she also stayed in contact with me via email along the remaining weeks leading up to our conference. Her humility and heart to help me in any way that she could spoke volumes to me about what this conference would be and put on full display her heart of servanthood even as a leader! I am eternally grateful for the love, care, attention and support that she provided me.

Who else knows that we only need one yes?! When God gives us His yes or tells us to “go” you better believe without a shadow of a doubt that He will provide! And He did just that for me! Traveling solo isn’t new to me, but this is the first time I had done so since I started walking again. Even rolling my luggage through the airport mazes caused me to seriously get choked up! The last time I flew solo I was headed to South Africa in 2019 and the last time I took a plane was going with my daughter to Cancun, Mexico in the summer of 2023 and I had to ride my electric scooter throughout the airport to get around. BUT God!!!! Hallelujah!!!

From the time I stepped foot out of my Uber at Wings of Hope Ranch to the time I was dropped off at the airport by my new sister-in-Christ, Jo- God showed up and He showed OUT!!! He met me and kept me wrapped in His love the entire time. He showed me that I wasn’t alone being at the conference in having a vision received from Him and attending IRMC to glean and hear more of what He wanted to show me. And He showed me that I was exactly where He wanted me to be BECAUSE I trusted and obeyed as I walked by faith I was able to receive everything, He had in store for me!

I am pictured above here with Pastor David Davis aka Woody, Founder of CHSA, with his trick horses: Pastor, Apostle and Samson after they ministered during our dinner at the 2025 IRMC. CHSA was an official sponsor of the 2025 IRMC.

Thanks to both of my parents I rarely meet a stranger LOL! And praise God thanks to our weekly Bible Study Zooms, I was EXTATIC to meet several of my CHSA family in real life in Virginia!!! So, although I traveled alone, I felt right at home with family praise God! And because I arrived early, I was able to tour Wings of Hope, meet several people and horses, help to assist with the conference setup and ask TONS of questions like I love to do!

I was absolutely in love and in awe of the facilities! Everything was so beautifully crafted, excellently cared for and intentionally constructed. It blessed me so greatly. And through numerous conversations, workshops plus Q & A’s one of the most incredible things I learned was how what God did for Wings of Hope was not an exception- in ranch ministry, this was the norm!!! Everyone had a story of how God blessed their ministry with acres of land, buildings, homes, horses, more horses, resources, tools, equipment, funding, food, participants, volunteers, biblically based programs and the list literally goes on and on! When I tell you my God is so DOPE!!!! He is literally the GOAT!!!

Come back to read the part 2 blog post sharing all about some amazing experiences and lessons I learned at the ’25 IRMC! Wait until you hear about all that God is doing in cities all over the world using horses as a tool to spread the Gospel and love of Jesus!

I encourage you if you haven’t yet to join us every Thursday night at 6pm CST via Zoom for our Christian Horse Show Association Bible Study! Register at CHSA.net or by clicking here.

Have a wonderfully blessed day- On Purpose!

Love & Blessings,

Jana M. Gamble

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