As our day begins we had the usual array of little things that went wrong, but fortunately it was nothing huge. I forgot the computer which we need to show the movie and there were a couple of other things but everything worked out in the end.
At first there were not too many kids but Jason reminded us that God was in control and giving us only what we could handle. It was a good word from the Lord. We wound up with about 20 kids. We didn’t have very many little ones so instead of breaking up into 2 groups we kept everyone together and played 15 minutes of the Jesus movie.
We then talked about the movie and it was really marvelous. The kids were engaged and they answered questions. We did have to prompt them a bit at times but on the whole it was a wonderful discussion about why Jesus had to come and what it meant to these kids that God’s Son came as a suffering servant as poor materially as they were.
We then spent some great time at the beach just loving these kids and spending time with them.
One little boy speaking to Tyler said, “Some people just think of you as the white people that come, but I think of you all as friends.”
That was a heartwarming confirmation that God is touching lives with the Jamaica Project.
Later in the afternoon we did not have any of the older boys show up for construction, so we scrapped the construction day and instead spent some time with a group of local lost boys who were kicking a soccer ball around.
They let us join them and while it wasn’t a time or place to talk about the gospel, these boys who were smoking and drinking at least had the white people from the church reach out and spend time with them without judging them. We hope and pray that this will lead to an open door at another time.
At the infirmary we spent an hour with these wonderful forgotten ones. We talked and laughed and marveled at how many songs these people knew. Tomorrow we will be back but this time we bring a guitar.
God is WILD! 