Day 5:Jamaica Heritage Day

The celebration continues with LaWanna Wilson and Sa'Mon Smith's birthday.  Happy 40th Birthday LaWanna and Sa'Mon!


The Ten Days team split their efforts between Papine and UTech. Those that were at Papine witnessed a mighty move of God. Ps. Lyndon took a stand for God and boldly set the standard for the children of Papine.  "There is only one blood redeem for one race - the HUMAN race," said Ps. Lyndon. During the assembly for "Jamaican Heritage Day" the kids continued to sing praises lifting up the ways/beliefs of rastafarianism. Even more shocking was the fact that the music instructor encouraged the students to sing of this religion - although, the school believes in Christianity.  In my heart of hearts I believe that the instructor thought he was doing a good thing by teaching the students about one aspect of their island heritage. In the same thought, I am sadden that he didn't see how contradictory his actions were. It was then that I realized that the instructors/ teachers needed more training and prayers. We, the Ten Days team, can pray and believe for the students of Papine while we're here. However, who will take the stand and continue to teach the students the way which is right  - God is Lord and no other Gods stand before him.

On another note - God continued to be glorified through Papine's ISCF (Inter Student Christian Fellowship).  After a moving and engaging teaching session by Ps. Lyndon and some of the Ten Days team, ISCF wandered into the schools courtyard and began to worship.  It was absolutely beautiful.  They couldn't stop singing praises. One song after another, they sung of God's goodness and mercy.  In that moment, God spoke through Samon saying, "Claim your territory."  The team and ISCF began to march in a circle 7 times.  The moment was followed by a charge from Samon to ALWAYS keep their area of the campus liter free.  Students began to walk around to clean their new territory. At that moment, Ps. Lyndon knew where we, Ten Days, would do our 2nd service project - beautifying the ISCF area.

Here are a few pics and video footage from the moment:

The cap off our day, we continued to celebrate the life of LaWanna and Samon. But, the funniest thing happened on the way to the hotel that night. We stopped to restock our water supply and Ps.Lyndon brought back a visitor (seen in the last picture).  How funny is our God? We were talking about having one race, the human race earlier that day.  Well, we ran into an authentic Jamaican that looked to be more Asian. His grandparents were Asians.  Honestly, it was delightfully weird looking at someone who resembles what America would call Asian, but was more Jamaican than anyone on our team that night. :-) God is FUNNY!!!