Jamaica Day Two

G-off Weakley and E to the Coupe here,

Today the team began by waking up. I believe this is the way that we will begin each day, but don't quote me on that. We ate breakfast which included a delicious ham, cheese, and egg casserole, which by the way, was a huge blessing from God through the working hands of the staff. After breakfast we packed up our lunches and we were off to a mysterious adventure into the unknown. The unknown it turns out, was just a little ole church on the side of a hill called OASIS. Vacation bible school was in full effect, we there just to help. About 840 kids showed up (JMD[Jamaican Money Dollar][Only about 12 USD[United States Dollar]]). 12 kids really showed up (sorry about the confusion), all of whom arrived in a 1990 honda accord. As soon as they arrived, we jumped right into an exhilarating craft session where we made coffee filter, pipe cleaner, marker written butterfly. All which was the brainchild of KELLY HAYES!

On a side note Mary J. Blige is playing from the club next door as we are writing currently. The significance of the butterfly came from Ephesians 4:21-24, read it if you haven't already memorized it. The children who we were ministering to were not too talkative, but very cooperative. After the craft and the message we sadly we had to leave, but gladly went to Blossom Gardens, a government orphanage.

When we arrived there we really didn't know what to expect and chaos followed. Not the bad chaos but the flexible chaos we as missionaries should come to expect. We stood at the gate having rang the doorbell but to no avail. We stood there in the awkward confusion for what seemed like 1 hour. As i was later told, we were really only standing there for about 2.5 minutes, but you know how that works. Finally a person came out asking what we wanted and let us in. We all were directed straight to the bathroom, and when I say all, I mean boys and girls, to the SAME place. Thas righ mon we us inda same batchrooom. After we were finished there we went right into the baby room where baby holding commence. Babies left, right, up, down, BABIES EVERYWHERE! Sometimes poop sometimes no poop, sometimes poop everywhere including Lisa's pants. Thats right a baby had some leakage aka blowout directly on Lisa's pants, YUCK! She was however a trooper and took it like a champ, wiped it off, and came back asking for more. This shows that God is definitely working with us on this trip. Lunch time hit, for the kids not for us, and we were handed just as many bottles as babies, when the babies were done some of us moved on to the kitchen to help with the older kids, about 4-9. Soup was the meal of choice and lets just say that the difficulty level was at 10. Imagine with me for a moment, a room full of young children with a bunch of hot soup. AHHHHHH! No problem though, we were throwing spoonfuls of hot liquid left and right and before we knew it we were all souped out. Soon after the lunch, it was farmer in the dell time, bingo was his name-o, ride that pony, and father abraham. We were just jumping around every which way singing this song and that with crazy enthusiasm that we didn't even know we had. After the final story of Daniel in the lions den, we had to leave to get back to Fairhaven for dinner. On our journey back home we stopped at a small stand and bought a few bags of sugar cane and pineapples which by the way were delicious.

After dinner we recapped the day, went over the crafts that we wanted to do for the week, and did some journaling time. After journaling time we headed out to a territory that was very unknown to some of us. Street ministries. After walking around for a while and meeting some people here and there, we came across a lady with about 4 kids or so. Chrissy and Janelle were the first to make friends with her and they began to talk about their beliefs. As things heated up between them some more of us became interested and entered the conversation. It turns out that the lady was a Jehovah’s Witness and refused to believe that God is three in one. Not only that but she would listen to what we were saying just enough to basically make us feel better and then she would completely refuse what we had to say. She couldn’t see the truth by herself but there is good news, we might be meeting with her again tonight, we will need all of God’s power to work through us so that she can see the light. So if I could ask for everyone back home to pray for us tonight when we are doing the street ministry that would be amazing. Sorry for the delay with the blog, we had some technical trouble. Until next time. PEACE OUT