We Are All the Lord's Chosen People Regardless of Age

Home phone number where we are staying: 304-945-7384

If you need to reach your children the last day and a half, you can use that number. Students will be getting their phones for 1 hour before dinner each evening and they will be collected all other times due to overuse of technology/distractions.

The morning started off by going to St. James infirmary. This is our 4^th year visiting the infirmary and it is amazing the number of people still there. The property is divided up into men’s and women’s cabins, and that is how we divided our team.  The girls engaged in the laying of hands on the women, singing, reading scripture, and praying for them. Some of the women included Gloria, Florence, and Marissa. These women sang along with Amazing Grace and their favorite passage included Psalms 23. It was a wonderful opportunity for our team minister to the elderly of Jamaica. Our guys did the same in the men’s cabin.

 

Earlier in the day, our seniors had asked if we could do a meals mission this trip and we would need to come out of pocket on money. I was blessed by their servant’s attitude and so we had $300 in our team funds that could go towards supplies. Pastor Doug and Jerry went to a wholesale market to buy us $300 worth of rice, beans, and cans of mackerel. After lunch, our team did shifts on the assembly line for getting the meal bags ready. We then headed to the Salter’s Hill community to distribute the meals. Each bag contained 1 5-pound bag of rice, a small bag of red beans, and 5 small cans of mackerel. Our team was able to put together 59 meal bags total. The families live up in the hillsides and our team scaled the slopes to reach these appreciative families.

After we finished handing out meal bags, we journeyed up a winding hill to an orphanage called the Robin’s Nest. The organization that we have been working with was instrumental in the building of this orphanage that overlooks Montego Bay. There was a high school group working on painting and mortar, and our group got a tour of the facility and to speak with some interns. The orphanage is smaller than Blossom Gardens, and has functioned without a water pipe. Brother Jerry had helped in the wiring and infrastructure of the house.

Below you see a picture of a very old Baptist church that sits up at the top of the mountain where the Robin's Nest is located. Many slave rebellions occurred throughout Jamaican history as the people sought their independence, and this is a historical artifact that has survived almost 300 years. 

It has been a long but successful day serving various communities around Montego Bay. In the evening, we will be heading to a church in Riverside for youth revival night. Everyone should sleep well tonight!

I will begin posting return information for Friday and alert everyone if any changes occur. Tomorrow will be our excursion day with a catamaran for lunch and our farewell dinner at Margaritaville on the beach.

Remember to use the house line listed above if you need to reach us!