MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica—God was working through the Bethesda Christian School senior class during a mission trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica, March 12–21. Twenty-eight students; our Bible teacher, Mike Poynter; and three parent sponsors left chilly Indiana to join the Gary Crawford family and share Christ with the wonderful people in that tropical paradise.
Despite Satan’s numerous attacks—delayed flights, lost luggage, and sickness—we had many opportunities to minister to people of all ages in various parts of the island. In the town of Savannah la Mar our team ministered with a local church, leading worship, teaching Sunday School, and witnessing door-to-door. Back in Montego Bay, we led devotions and provided music and puppet shows in many public elementary schools, spent a day with the kids at Robin’s Nest Orphanage, hung out with the residents of West Haven Home for the handicapped, and evangelized along the sea wall each night.
During the course of the week we were blessed to see nine people enter the family of Christ, seven of them through sea wall evangelism and two through ministry at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Words can’t express the joy it was to be able to lead a little girl, Nicholine, to the Lord! Those 10 days in Jamaica were an amazing time of bonding and unity for our class, as well as individual spiritual growth. Although we went to care for and love on the people of Jamaica, we came back having been loved abundantly!
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory” (Ephesians 3:20, 21).
Korinna Waggoner is a senior at Bethesda Christian School. Her father, Bryan Waggoner, is executive pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church.
