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...
by David Campbell | Sep 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the greatest challenges of the Christian faith is to live in the now, but not yet, presence of God’s kingdom. Yesterday we heard from some friends in Jamaica that their house was broken into, and that the thieves stole some irreplaceable things that they had...
by David Campbell | Aug 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the most surreal things about serving as a missionary is the different worlds that you find yourself moving between. A month ago we had just held “The Impact of Trauma on Children” seminar, with a visiting psychologist from Canada, Jeanne Willliams. The seminar...
by David Campbell | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa In the last two weeks we have taken children and young people from inner city communities to a beach in Portland, a waterfall in St. Elizabeth, and a botanical gardens with a river in St. Mary....
by David Campbell | Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday we took around 40 young people and leaders on a day trip to Winnifred Beach in Portland. The day was planned out with activities that would help the young people to have fun, work together on team challenges, and ultimately experience a level of freedom...
by David Campbell | Apr 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Let me introduce you to some children: Everton is 8 years old, and his prayer is for mothers and fathers in his community to be good parents. Plattini is 10, and his prayer is that people in his community would learn to say kind words. Kimani is 11, and his prayer is...
by David Campbell | Dec 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
On Thursday, children from our Kids Clubs marched around Trench Town to celebrate the Christmas story with their community. Straight after the pageant we gave awards to those children and clubs that have got the most “values stars” over the last 3 months...
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