Each morning the Hotel serves up a celebrity breakfast buffet. We hear it’s the best breakfast in Jamaica, perhaps even the world. But the Rock youth didn’t travel to Jamaica to eat french toast and waffles, they came to go visit schools. It was 6am and our team of Jr. high-through college age students were heading out to do another school assembly and see what adventure the day had in store. Our bus driver doubled as our morning workout instructor, as he nearly took out a dozen early morning pedestrians giving us reason to believe the lord was already going before us. An hour later we arrived at Farm School, the first school of our day. We rolled up where our bus was surrounded by hundreds of smiling faces dressed in army style issued school attire. Our team was ready to meet and make little Jamaican friends and learn what the spiritual gift of flexibility. At this moment our students realized the possibility that in just a few minutes, they would get the chance to perform the skits they had practiced for months, share their 3-5 minute testimony or transform into a worship team and lead out in songs. They were ready for all the above and we usually found out what we would be able to pull off as we walked into the school yard just seconds before “GO” time. With a mic in one hand and a stick in the other, the school director commanded silence to a courtyard of 100’s of students. And like seasoned missionaries and trained thesbians our students performed their skit, followed with a few testimonies, a rap, a stunt and a “who’s the man…Jesus”, a few minutes later we were done, but a lifelong experience had been solidified in both their students lives and in the lives of our Rock Youth students. I could list a hundred things our students learned but it was one of those things where you just had to be there to get the full experience. We loaded up and I could tell that there was a maturity in our bus. A spiritual notch on their belts that they each shared. Perhaps it was the simple miracle of getting there, a smile on a kids face or the willingness to step out grab the mic and share their story and life with 100’s of faces, I am positive that memories were solidified in every students hearts today, and it was only 10Am. Thanks for helping our students get to Jamaica!
Dru Teves
Jr. high youth pastor
