Edinbrook Church / Jamaica Missions

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Well, it's Monday night, June 19th. I'm in a Miami hotel with Jason Pfingsten, my cousin and founder of Praying Pelican Missions. We recently finished our first trip to Jamaica. This past week we lead a group of 37 students and 8 adults from Edinbrook Baptist church (Minneapolis, MN) in ministry near May Pen Jamaica. The team divided into two groups to partner with two Baptist churches in small villages near May Pen (Chateau and Rosewell, Jamaica W.I.). The ministry the team was involved in was construction projects including painting, spreading of fill dirt, rendering of a cement finish on the church and landscaping work. The students put on a VBS in both villages in the afternoons. It was a good week of ministry. A lot of work was done and the team left the congregations at Rosewell and Chateau blessed and renewed in their excitement for Christ. The churches partnered together to hold evangelistic services on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.My experience this past week was a very good one. I was delegated a large clump of responsibility, being asked to be in charge of the whole Chateau group (19 students, 4 adults). I was on site with the team the whole time and struggled through a few bumps in the road, typical for starting out with something like that during our first Jamaica trip. Overall the youth group was fun and succeeded in their mission. A number of lives were changed on the trip, including at least 1 dedication to living for God.The team finished up their time in Jamaica by traveling to Ocho Rios and going to Dunn's River falls. They are currently on their way back to Minneapolis, MN, and planning on arriving home around midnight.Jason P. and I are on our way to Belize in the morning. It's been a challenging week, but a week of learning, growing and excitement. The next trip i'm on in Belize is a group of 85 high school students from Group Work Camps (the largest short term missions organization in the U.S.). They will be divided into 3 different ministry sites in Belize City. Pray for safe travel of the students and leaders, for our PPM staff, and for successful tangible results.

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