Local Outreach

For a week we went up to Mandeville where we stayed at the Carribean Christian School for the deaf. Each day we worked around the school helping in various different ways  painting the school bathrooms, sanding chairs and helping out around the schools farm among other jobs. I learnt a small amount of sign language which i used to speak to some of the kids, asking their name and telling them my own. In the afternoon each day we went into the community to chat to people, give out Bibles and have a postive effect there.Some of the highlights of the trip were meeting an old lonely lady who we had the opportunity to chat with and pray for as well as a young girl with post-natal depression who we met many times; we had chance to pray with her and talk with her about her issues.

Another one of the highlights for me was meeting the local churches youth group and having the chance to have a basketball game with them which was good times. They really opened up to us because of that and we had good chat with them all afterwards.

On Friday we returned to the local area around the base and worked on creating the foundations for a house for a poor family in the area. This was part of the Homes of Hope project, providing homes for those who cannot afford to build their own. This was easily the hardest work we had done by far, however all the team got stuck in with pickaxes, sledgehammers, jackhammers and spades and we shifted alot of rock and soil. Was great that the people who we were building the house for were there helping too and we could see they were very enthuasiastic. After a few hours many people from the local area turned up to help their neighbours with their new house.