Hey Friends -
Here's our first update!
Concrete. Our day was filled with the makings of concrete.
We started our day with a few members of the LIA staff and talked about our expectations for the trip and LIA's focus on holistic transformational work in communities, partnered with churches.
Then we drove to Trelawney and the community of Wait-a-Bit, a town with a lot of puns associated with it. Emmanuel Trinity Church behind Bishop Reed (their pastor since the 1980s) has been training ministers in Jamaica and is now going to begin to train other workers. They are building a youth training center where students can go after high school to learn careers like baking, welding, and computer skills. This is where the concrete comes in.
The students spent the better part of the afternoon shoveling raw materials into buckets then passing the buckets to the roof where it was to be dumped for mixing and pouring tomorrow.
Bishop Reed showed us around their property as well where they are growing pumpkins, bananas, plantains, yams, and lemongrass.
Everyone is trying to rest and recover today because tomorrow, the real work begins
Here's our first update!
Concrete. Our day was filled with the makings of concrete.
We started our day with a few members of the LIA staff and talked about our expectations for the trip and LIA's focus on holistic transformational work in communities, partnered with churches.
Then we drove to Trelawney and the community of Wait-a-Bit, a town with a lot of puns associated with it. Emmanuel Trinity Church behind Bishop Reed (their pastor since the 1980s) has been training ministers in Jamaica and is now going to begin to train other workers. They are building a youth training center where students can go after high school to learn careers like baking, welding, and computer skills. This is where the concrete comes in.
The students spent the better part of the afternoon shoveling raw materials into buckets then passing the buckets to the roof where it was to be dumped for mixing and pouring tomorrow.
Bishop Reed showed us around their property as well where they are growing pumpkins, bananas, plantains, yams, and lemongrass.
Everyone is trying to rest and recover today because tomorrow, the real work begins