We are in Jamaica!!!

Hey everyone,

We have our High School group in Jamaica.   Funny story we thought we were going to be Montego Bay Jamaica but we are actually near new port Jamaica in the mountains.  The weather here is amazing.  Much better than the Sham.  I actually did not sweat much today.  We had a great flight down here and then on Sunday we were able to go to a deaf church at the Deaf village.  It was amazing worshiping together with those that were hearing and those that were not.  Watching people signing for worship was amazing and beautiful.  Yesterday afternoon we were able to hang out with the students at the school, which is actually not that many.  We had a great time hanging out with them.  Today we began working.  We had one group that was working with metal all day getting ready to pour concrete.  There was one group that was doing concrete and another that was painting.  These students are extremely hard working and do so without complaining.  The people here are so nice.  They do drive on the wrong side of the road and honk all the time though.  It was awesome to see all of the people dressed up and walking to church on Sunday morning.  Did I mention the weather was beautiful?? We are in free time now and playing some basketball.  Our students have already picked up a great deal of sign language and are learning from the Deaf students.  They have also given us all our sign names which is pretty cool and funny at times.  Our leader Bryant is hurting pretty bad.  He had to go to the doctor today and they told him that he had kidney stones... kind of painful.  Please keep him in your prayers and pray that he is healed.  He has been on the road for 6 weeks leading groups and gets to go home next week, and it would be awesome if he could go home and enjoy time with his family and if the pain left him.  Continue to pray for us as we continue to serve.  We miss everyone back home and cannot wait to tell you what God is doing in our lives.  We love you all. We will have pictures up tomorrow so make sure to check it out.

Andy Stinespring

We're still here and still have 26 of us... so relax!

Disclaimer: This is Becca writing so if it's girly you can't make fun of Andy, for that anyway. (He said I had to write that.)
Thank you for your sweet prayers. We have felt them big time! God is beginning to break the hearts of our students for the things that break His heart. It's so neat to watch the Spirit changing them right in front of our faces. What a big God! I can't wait to see what God does with them, here and at home. We have been blessed with some fantastic leadership from the Adventures in Missions group- we're probably bringing them home. We're kinda not kidding! God is moving in such incredible ways that I pretty much just need you to ask your kids about it, but here's a fun story or two.
Tonight, we had the privilege of doing a cookout at an abandoned school in the Carrollton area of New Orleans (Jamie says "the hood"). Kenley and Emily S. met three little children who were pretty much the cutest things I've ever seen. You couldn't help but fall in love with them. Kenley and Emily offered to get them some food, but they refused it originally. Later, the oldest child admitted they hadn't eaten all day and were actually very hungry. Sadly, by that time we had run out of food, and we were leaving to go to feed the homeless in another area of town. We gave them some bread we were supposed to be taking to the homeless and left. After feeding the homeless, we had so much left over food we were able to pack up several meals for their family and the group travelled back to the area. Though we didn't know which house they lived in, the Lord led us to them! Kenley and Emily were able to give the food to the family and pray over them. God really opened all of our eyes to the way he is opening up doors of opportunity for us if we are just willing to listen and act.

Keep praying! (Jamie says "hurry up, amen").