by David Campbell | Mar 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
I told a story in my last update of a moment when some young men had turned up unexpectedly at youth club a few weeks ago, were behaving in a negative way and refusing to leave, and then when Adrian gently escorted the ringleader to the door … the young man...
by David Campbell | Mar 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
“So I gently escorted this teenaged lad to the door … and on the way he said; ‘I’ll shoot you!’” This was how Adrian concluded telling me about an incident that took place at the Junior Youth Programme last week, when we met on Skype a few days after it happened. What...
by David Campbell | Dec 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
“The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.” Luke 10:2 In my last update, one of the things I asked you to pray about was our Advent Pageant on December 2nd, and particularly the...
by David Campbell | Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Lori (not her real name) is fifteen, and attends our youth programme every week. She is normally quick to laugh, quick to get involved in all of the activities, and also keen to hear the testimonies and things that are shared from God’s word. Last week she responded...
by David Campbell | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was twenty years ago this month, I was on a bus heading away from Kingston to Montego Bay, and I was looking out of the window feeling very disheartened and confused. I had come back to Jamaica for a two week trip with one aim; to connect with someone who loved God...
by David Campbell | Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
At the end of my last update there were just two sentences talking about the fact that we were hoping to raise $2,000 USD for our back to school fundraiser this year to help families in the inner city. The background to this is that we have been doing a back to school...
by David Campbell | Jul 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
I wrote the short reflection below in our Fusion Jamaica WhatsApp prayer group about two weeks ago … and I am (mostly) glad that I did! So I will let you read the reflection and then tell a little bit of the story of the last two weeks. “There they strengthened the...
by David Campbell | Jun 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
“He tricked us … because he wanted to kill us!” It was 4am and the young people had hiked for 2 hours the day before, up a very steep climb to where we had made a fire, cooked our dinner and camped for the night. We had then woken at 2am, to keep hiking up in time to...
by David Campbell | May 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
“People Matter, so Respect Everyone! We’re a Team, so Work Together! Our Actions Count, so Make Good Choices!” Children, young people, and leaders recite these phrases week after week in our after school programmes. They are the club values; the explicit statements in...
by David Campbell | Dec 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
It was Christmas Gift Box time for children in Trench Town yesterday. The children and youth performed songs at our Christmas celebration, enjoyed a great performance to highlight the meaning of Christmas and then went home with their Gift Box and cakes that had been...
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