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We just finished most of the projects that we started this week.  Six days of SWEAT, sweat, sweat, SSWWEEEAATTTT!!!! :)  We have cleaned mounds and piles of debris from the last hurricane that come through, painted some boys dorms, scrubbed and painted the main kitchen in the great hall including cabinets, repainted the outdoor playground, hopscotch, and foursquare, organized the library where piles of books were once on the floor, lead worship and devotionals daily with the kids, organized and held birthday parties with the elderly, cleaned and painted the curbs around the 15+ acre entrance, played countless games of soccer and misc. ball, read scripture with students in the park after lunch (which they continually asked for), gave swimming lessons each day, and hung out with students when we were not catching up rest sleeping through the night.  Wow, good thing I wasn’t saying all of that with one breath! 

Tomorrow will be a special day.  We are taking the teams from Washington, North Carolina, and Ohio to Dunn’s River Falls where visitor’s can make the 600 feet climb from the base of the falls, hand-in-hand like a human daisy chain!  We are definitely ready for a break!  Can’t wait to jump from a waterfall into the tropical ocean!!!  Keep you posted!

It’s day 5 in Jamaica and I have managed to find my way into an Internet room here where we are ministering at The Salvation Army.  We have been spending our time working with students here at the school for the blind, loving on the orphans, reading scripture and singing with the elderly, and doing tons of miscellaneous work projects here on campus.  It is incredibly HOT as well as humid.  Of course NO.  I think our bodies are finally getting somewhat acclimated-sort of.   

God has really been moving here.  One of the blind students was telling us how his hearing is not that great, which is pretty rough considering that is one of the primary ways a blind person gets around.  I asked if he knew of Jesus and His love for him.  He said that he knew a lot about Jesus and has seen his miracles, but was not sure that he was a believer.  After talking with him about God’s love for us.  I asked him if he would be willing for me to pray with him.  He was happy to receive prayer.  We claimed the word of God over his life asking the Lord for his healing power on the young man’s life.  When we said Amen, he was able to hear much better.  The next day, he came up to me and said that when he yawned that morning, his ears were clearer than they had ever been!  What a miracle.  If that wasn’t enough, the young man asked Jesus to be his Lord and Savior that evening, excited to be a part of the family of God.  WOW!  What privilege to be a part of what God is doing!