Our team has worked hard to prepare, and we are excited about our adventure to Jamaica starting Saturday morning at 4:45 a.m.! We are 25 teens and adults from Cornerstone, and we are going to work, serve and love at a boarding school for deaf kids in Jamaica.
Deaf kids there have very little hope for a normal life and vocation, so this school takes them in at very young ages, teaches them sign language, and educates them all the way through high school, including vocations such as sewing, carpentry, cosmotology, cooking and computers.
In the mornings we will do light construction on their simple, and sometimes worn out, facilities. In the afternoon we will engage the older kids (grades 7th through 12th) through soccer and other sports, painting, and arts and crafts. One other church from Charleston, SC will be there this week, which will focus on the younger ages in the afternoons. In the evenings we will worship, debrief each day, and have family and small group devotions.
Check back here next week, as I hope to send a few updates during our trip to the many who have supported us and would like to support us through prayer. Our hope and prayer is not only that we would make an impact in Jamaica, but that we ourselves would be changed in the process.
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Praying for y'all while you are ministering in Jamaica!
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