At our clinic today at Flanker’s, a 6 year old girl came into see the doctor. He prayed with her, and because her responsiveness to the prayer was remarkable, he realized this was more than a 6 year old girl, but a very spiritually mature and anointed being. He felt God asking this girl to pray for him, after asking, she was quick to say yes. As she prayed for him (and later, 2 other ladies on our team), there was authority and power in her prayer. She had annointing, clarity, focus, and simplicity that could have come from a preacher! All were in awe of the Lord and the faith of this 6 year old child!
As I get on the bus this afternoon, I said to myself, ” I wonder what God will go with the day?” I ask Him to show me the way. As we arrived at Granville Place of Safety (GPS), I was excited. GPS is a place where girls ages 7-17 go when they are abandoned, abused, have no place to go or have gotten themselves into trouble. I thought this is right up my alley as this is the population I work with at home. I didn’t figure on meeting these three ladies. As the School Assembly team interacted with the 59 girls, I noticed three girls standing in what looked like a locked cage. When I got closer, they were indeed locked in! I came to learn that these girls were only three of five that ran away. They ran away to go to parties and have sex with men. The consequences, to be locked up. The girls didn’t talk much, and would not tell me their stories. I prayed for them. I asked them to think about staying put, not running away, to follow God and watch and wait for what for all the good He has for them.
Lisa - School Assembly Team
Hi my name is Jaz and i got the opportunity to visit a girls detention center today. I met a young girl who was 16 and 6 months pregnant there. I had the chance to pull her to the side and talk with her. She shared with me her story and i want to share it with you. Shaneka told me she grew up in a poor home with her father and brother. Her mother moved to the U.S when she was little. I asked her how was it growing up in her home. She shared with me that she was abused by both her brother and father ever since she could remember. She came to the clinic 4 months ago and was still being abused until the day she was brought to the center. Her father comitted suicide to avoid going to jail and her brother went to prison for abusing her. Her brother is the father of her uborn child. I told her she must be happy to be free from her home situation but surprisingly she told me she still loves her brother and wanted to see and be with him. She said she would rather be with him than at the center. My heart melted and i couldnt understand this. Later i learned this was normal. I could feel how hardened and numb Shanekas heart was to sharing this. I thought she would be emotionl and crying, as i was when she was sharing her story but she just shrugged her shoulders and said “Whatever”. I hugged, loved, poured into and prayed for her…and hugged, loved, poured into and prayed for her some more. I told her that she is beautifully, fearfully and wonderfully made. When we were preparing to leave, one of our youth leaders prayed over all the girls and extended an invitation for any of them to come up who were in any hurt or pain to be healed in Jesus name. For anyone who believed that Jesus loved them and if they were not saved to give thier lives to Christ. Shaneka went forward, shed tears and came to me asking me to come back and thanked me. I call this story “The Beautiful Struggle” because even though Shanekas experience was a struggle, she is still a beautiful child of god! Shaneka will overcome her hurts and pain through a God who is bigger than satans schemes to discourage and hold her down. Jesus will heal and hold this beautiful girl in His arms just as He did me in my own beautiful struggle. I managed to get her to smile with me and capture a heart that only Jesus could soften. Glory be to the Almighty. I’m crying because God is real and Shanekas soul is saved!
So after our first day of visiting some of the high schools around Montego Bay, part of the School Assembly team went to help out the community projects team at Flankers Middle School. We seriously hit the ground running! We teamed up with our paint brushes, buckets of paints and scrappers to get to work. The members of the community team were sooo grateful for our presences. They told us about how they had waited hours and hours before even getting any supplies to begin working on the school, so they felt behind schedule in some ways.
We had no problem jumping in to things and trying our best to paint, sweep and clean as much as we get them caught up. But here’s the thing! The Sunday before most of us from our school assembly team went to church and learned a song by a young boy, about eight year’s old and his even younger sister. The song simply included the lyrics…”I’m walkin’ n talkin’ with my minddd…SET ON JESUS!” y this young boy sang this song with some much pride and joy and absolute conviction that it reminded us that any and all things we do should be done with our mind’s SET ON JESUS!
So while we were out in the blazing heating, working and working and working some more we found is necessary to start singing “We’re painting and sweating with our mind…SET ON JESUS!” and doing this seriously just lifted every one’s spirit’s and made working and sweating a joy! Sounds crazy, yes I know, but just in everything you do…do it with your mind….SET ON JESUS!
Blessings!
Kaye (School Asembly GROUP BEEEEE!!!!!!! (B) )
Hello. I’m Kaitlyn. I’m about to be 17 and this is my first missions trip. We went to an all girl’s school today and there were 300+ girls. It was scary, nerve racking yet, AMAZING! We did our skit called “Lifehouse Skit” and they loved it. I was also asked to share my testimony, which I’ve never done in front of a group larger then like, 3 people. . so it was quite scary. I gave just a snip it of my testimony and just wanted to let the girls know that no matter what has happened in their life, no matter what might happen, and the things that God has in store for them; GOD WILL ALWAYS LOVE & FORGIVE THEM NO MATTER WHAT!!! and I feel that that is the the message God has put on my heart to tell the kids of Jamaica. So today alone, made this entire trip worth it.
Pastor D began to give a mini-message and it went into the same thing I was saying. He began to tell them how God has a plan for each and everyone of them and how God created them to be a masterpiece. He said Boys might tell us young ladies that we’re not a masterpiece and the only way we can be is if we sleep with them, but Pastor D had all of us hold our hands out and say “pahhhh-leease!” We are masterpieces of Christ Jesus. It was even a good lesson for us on the team to hear as well because it reminds us that we are virtuous women as well. Praise God!
Kaitlyn Kohn. [School Assemblies _ team B! ]
PS : THIS IS ONLY ONE STORY & ITS ONLY TUESDAY
