Week 1 Recap!

Hello Everybody!
Greetings from Harmons, Jamaica! Well, all is well here and we just got done with our first week with a team, which might I add, was a blast!

There were two groups down here teaming up. Both were youth groups from Kansas, one from Olathe Bible Church and the other from South Leawood Baptist Church. While they were here, they were able to build two houses, lay a foundation, and haul a ton of marl! Apart from all the grunt work, I know that I saw lives changed and people learning lessons that they will carry forever, which is what the ministry is all about…Changing Lives By Changing Lives. All in all, it was a very successful week and all of the staff would like to say THANK YOU to everybody involved and we hope that you all will come back to Harmons sometime soon.

Also last week, we were able to welcome full-time staffer Loyd Jacksons’ wife, Candy, who will be staying with us until the middle of the summer, and we are all very happy to have her here…she also brought us candy (which spawned a lot of dumb jokes because of her name) and that’s just awesome!

As for this week, the scheduled church from North Carolina dropped out so now we are hosting two people and we all (including the rest of the Summer Staff) are building a house outside of Harmons in a very rough area called May Pen. The house we are building is for a young, pregnant woman who is in need of shelter. It’s exciting to be able to do this for her and we all pray that God will bless this new house and her future in it.

In closing, I would like to ask you all to please keep me and the rest of the staff in your prayers. God has blessed us so far and we are anticipating the weeks to come!

Peace and Love,
Tim