If I could describe my time in Montego Bay in one work it would be KIDS. It became so aware to me that Gods heart was for the children of Jamaica as I watched thousands of kids visit the ship. We planned to do 28 school programs while in Montego Bay but it happened that we ended up doing 25 more than we had planned. Everyday we would have hundreds of school kids waiting to come on she ship.
16,513 kids attended school programs during out time in Montego Bay!!!
God used the ship to minister to over 16 thousand Jamaican children, every single one heard the gospel in some way. It was blows me away when I think how many kids visited and it reminds me that none of this is in my strength it is all through Gods strength.
The reason why Montego Bay was such a stressful port for me was because of the busyness of school visits, every day I was faced with hundreds of school kids that wanted to visit the ship but I was also faced by their teachers who often can be very inpatient and angry. I found myself being yelled at by teachers everyday. God reminded me of a verse.
"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep with out a Shepard." -Matthew 9: 36
I really had to ask God to give me compassion for the people of Jamaica and to love them with Gods love. I realized that I don't have the compasity to love these people, I can only love them through God and through his eyes.
Love the people.
