Thursday, June 25

Hey!
I woke up ridiculously early to eat with the other team this morning before they headed off to do ministry in the schools. Our team doesn't fly in for about another 1/2 hour. Then once they make it through customs we drive straight to Kingston. We have at least one ministry sight tonight after we arrive. It'll be a long night starting off a long week, but the Lord is strong.
I took a walk this morning after early breakfast down to the beach. I sat and took in some of the beauty of Jamaica before the heat got too bad. It's about 33celsius here right now. For those of you who don't speak European colony, I'm pretty sure that's in the low 90's.
All is well and we are all healthy (though very mosquito bitten). Praise the Lord. Some of the incoming high school students with the teams are being picky about the food they serve us. Choosing to not eat can be very dangerous when we have to work so hard. Please pray that everyone would be able to keep up their stregth, even if it means a littls self-sacrifice.
We have a long bus ride ahead of us today. 4 hours to Kingston on very windy roads up and down the hills and mountains. Please pray for those who have trouble with car and motion sickness and also for safety. Tonight is also the first real ministry I'll be doing. Out in the streets of Kingston God can really move. All kinds of people live there, from murders to the impoverished of trench-town to people who have never heard of Jesus before. God is going to change lives, and I'm excited I'll be there to watch him work.

We're in the airport right now. My team from Whittier, CA was split onto two flights. One of the flights arrived with 9 of the team members, but the other 30 had their flight canceled and are stuck in Memphis. Please pray that things will work out and they will find a flight. We are still going to Kingston with our small numbers today to minister tonight. One man band anyone? ;-)

I saw children playing in an old dirty river today in Spanish Town. They lived in a shanty town and were naked. My heart is a little weakened by the poverty here in the mountains.