Jamaica 2016 January Team, Day 1

Oh my gosh, today has been an adventure so far.  We arrived at the church that we were sent to and there were no other people there, so we assumed we had the wrong place and went on to another.  While it wasn’t the “New Year’s covenant” service...

Jamaica January 2016 Team, Arrival

A team member was joining the rest of the team in Atlanta.  The biggest concern is there would be a flight issue with one of the two flights and the group wouldn’t connect.  Thankfully that was not the case and the team caught up to each other in the Atlanta...

Jamaica 2016 January Team, Day 2

I used to say that a person has no idea what “tired” means until they’ve had kids… That was before I’d ever been on a mission trip;-). What an adventure. So far not much has been as we had expected, so we’ve become very good at going with “plan B”. We’ve been up...

Jamaica October 2015 Day 6

Sunday, October 18 Before each meal at the manse, Rev Harrison likes to sing a song of praise or thanksgiving in addition to saying a prayer. Prior to breakfast this morning was the first day we knew the song he wanted to sing – “This Is the Day That the Lord...

Jamaica October 2015 Day 5

Saturday, October 17 I can’t believe I forgot to post this yesterday – we can see the ocean from the manse where we’re staying! Layna told us she could see it on the first day, but the rest of us thought it was just the way the clouds and sky appeared that...

Jamaica October 2015 Day 4

Friday, October 16 Breakfast this morning was delicious. We had small fried fish filets with a buttery sauce/gravy, starfruit, papaya, toast with guava jelly, and bammy. Bammy look like English muffins and are made from cassava, a small root vegetable similar to a...