February 13-20, 2016 Mission to Jamaica

The plans - to be an organizational, planning, and development trip. We plan to visit all our ministry areas - to include Basic Schools (preschools), Churches, Special Needs School, the indigent nursing home, and a few families and special children we help.

Specific goals:

• Further evaluate hunger problems in the Basic Schools, consider if a feeding program or something similar is feasible.
• Assuming we want to proceed with feeding programs - organize a child sponsorship program to fund the feeding program
• If we recruit preschool teachers, evaluate the Basic Schools for other ways we can help
• Consider a child sponsorship program to help fund the feeding program at Lyssons Special Needs School.
  

Team members needed:

• Ideally, we would like a team of about 10 people.
• We specifically are praying that preschool and early childhood education teachers would choose to go
• People who are good organizers to help us obtain the data and information to create the Child Sponsorship program.

Other goals:

• Make plans for the next few trips - such as where and how to do a VBS in the Summer
• Look at and possibly make plans for a construction project on one of the other trips

Please email us if you have specific questions!

July 2015 Trip Highlights

The Isaiahsixeight team which traveled to southeastern Jamaica in July returned with many new friends and too many stories to recount.  The group tackled various projects to include renovations to the basic school, bathrooms, and bus stop in Johnson Mountain to Vacation Bible Schools in Old Pera, Port Morant, and Barking Lodge.  A total of five VBS sessions were conducted over the course of four days for over 200 Jamaican adults and children!  The group was also able to visit the Infirmary in Port Morant and spend time with the residents there as well as attending the local church service for Pastor Courtney Spence in Rowlandsfield.  We've included just a few photos to highlight what God accomplished through the team in 2015.  You can view more photos on the new IS68 Facebook group page: www.facebook.com/IsaiahsixeightJamaica. Also see the new IS68 webpage: http://www.is68jamaica.org/

Vacation Bible School at Port Morant Methodist.  With one of the biggest crowds, there were well over 50 children and adults in attendance.  Many of them remembered one or more of the songs from last year!  Hannah Luther is pictured with several children.

Just a couple of the unforgettable kids we met during VBS.  They loved to color and participate during arts and crafts time!  This photo was taken at Old Pera.

The work crew helped renovate the basic school in Johnson Mountain.  With the help of several IS68 Jamaica friends, the project was completed ahead of schedule.  Mark Luther and Alan Christian are pictured along with Jamaican friends, Keith Rhoden and Michael Brown.

This is the bus stop at Johnson Mountain during the reconstruction process.  Alan Christian, Ewuan Brown, and Keith Rhoden are in the photo.

The team visited the community of Seaside one afternoon.  These are a few of the children which attended the VBS in Port Morant along with Amy Luther, the VBS leader for the week.