A Jamaican Wednesday

Please excuse me while I take a second to wipe the sweat off my face...

There, much better. Wow. It is hot! Yet somehow, it doesn’t seem to bother any of the students on the trip. As I sit writing this, every one of the kids on the trip is out under a baking son, serving a people that none of them have ever met, and most of them will ever see again.

That is just incredible to me. Yesterday a group of now-high-school-grads went over to the home of a local Reverend, helping to do work on the septic tank being installed in his house. Today, the group went to two work sites. The first went back over to St Ann’s Church, where they continued to pour the roof of the church. There is still lots of work to be done there, but they are working extremely diligently to get the job completed. Oh, and did I mention that they are doing all of the concrete mixing completely by hand?

The other group is over at the home of the Streets, a Jamaican family that Grace has built a relationship with over the years. Currently, the family of eight lives in a small three roomed building, but as we speak (not actually, but you get the point), they are laying the foundation for a completely new building there, which is a long complicated process they have charged head-on.

Meanwhile, all of us are very excited that we will soon be joined by Ben Glenn, whose art will allow all of us an excellent opportunity to continue building relationships with the locals in the community. We still have lots to do between now and tonight, but we know that it will all get done.

And also, in the midst of all our work, we are still finding ways to have incredible amounts of fun. I mean, we are in Jamaica, and that is just AWESOME. And feel incredibly privileged to be able to join this incredible group of young adults who can have fun under any circumstances, while still getting a ton of work done for the community here. The presence of God is definitely here with us.

So we thank all of you for your prayers, and ask that you would continue to pray for us as we continue sharing our faiths with the people here, and learning from both them, as well as each other along the way.


Raff