Newest Blessing

This little guy arrived yesterday while I was at New Hope.

He has the most BEAUTIFUL eyes and big drooly grin:)

Please be praying for Him.

Thanks!

Lollipop

This week is testing at CCCD so I am 

spending my days at New Hope playing

with my babies, and helping to get things

ready for Christmas.

Yesterday was a lollipop kinda day.

From about 1:30-3 each day I have a window

(that the kids are sleeping,or in their beds)

to decorate.  Its SO FUN to watch them wake

up from their naps and come out to see 

what room was decorated that day.

Thank You Jesus for the small things!

Thanksgiving

This past weekend the CCCD missionaries

were able to meet up at JDV for a day to hang

out and celebrate Thanksgiving.

 Ben and Krista did the cutting of the meat.

We all brought our favorite Thanksgiving dishes

and had an AMAZING meal!

 the Head of our table

 the rest of the table. 

All the parents are out of the picture

so they must be getting things

for their kiddos.

after a wonderful meal, reading the story of the first 

thanksgiving, and going around to share what we

are thankful for. We played games while our food

settled, before digging in to the Yummy desserts.

Thank You Jesus for these Wonderful people I get

to serve beside.

Watching them Shine!

Friday I was able to go to Kingston to watch my

kids participate in the National Deaf Sports Day.

I loved being able to be there to support them.

My kids are fast. They did good in the races,

I loved watching my kids shine!

My kids are the ones in purple and Orange.

 Stephan

 Felicia

 Odane

 Whitney.

This girl is crazy fast!

 Shannon

 Mario

 Oshin

 Anthony

 Jermaine

I loved how they worked so hard together to 'train'.

And because of that training there was a lot of celebrating

after the races were won.

I love it.

Thank You Jesus for Good Days Like This!

Thankful.

I am Thankful for Jesus.

Thankful for Family and Friends who love and support me.

Thankful for this road I get to travel.

 Thankful that I was approved for permanent residency!

And here are some cute pictures, just cause:)

 me and my baby girl Niah

I love this picture of Tafique,

Big Shoes- check

Bottle- check

Lollipop- check

Happy Thanksgiving All!

Weekend.

 Saturday I drove to Mobay with the team, dropped them off, then went

to the Mobay school to meet little Matthew Burkett (whom I didn't 

get a picture of), and pick up Janice and her mom Edie who are staying

with me this week.

 Sunday Morning we drove to St. E and surprised Pauline, after we found

out that Pastor Damian wouldn't be preaching at New Life. I was excited

we were able to go join the St. E group for church, and I was thankful

Janice and Edie were able to spend some time with Pauline.

 From there we went to Little Ochie. This is Edie's first time to the 

island so we wanted to let her play "tourist" a little bit.

I love the 'atomosphere' of this resteraunt.

The food...not so much :D

 Edie saw a big fish she wanted to take a picture with. So she went

to talk with the fishermen cleaning there resent catch.

Of course they were totally fine with letting

her hold the fish for a picture.

Then of course when we were done they

all begged her to buy it for them.

Thank You Jesus for sporadic and fun weekends!

Typical

A typical night with team Jamaica:)

Love Them!

Meet:The Bridge Church

Last week I was able to hang out with a fun group from 'The Bridge Church'

in MD. They were a first time team and had many Caribbean connection so

that made it an extra fun week.

Thank You Jesus for new friends!

Looking For:

29 people,

people willing to take the name of a child at New Hope,

people willing to daily bathe that child in prayer.

Prayer is such a powerful thing and I would love

to get people specifically praying for the kids there.

Let me know if you are interested and I will send you

a picture and the name of a kid to pray for.

Thanks!

Work Day @ New Hope.

Last Sat. New Life Church had a work day at New Hope

Children's Home. I was SO excited to see such a great turn

out. We worked only a few hours but got so much done.

 putting in shelves to help with organization and make

more room.

 Ben and Ionda ready to work

 Michelle and Shakera working while

Niah looks on.

 Putting in more shelves..

 and more shelves.

(Praising Jesus for each shelf that

was added, giving us more room to store

donations!)

 The kitchen getting some fresh paint

 some of the ladies spent the morning combing out,

greasing, and fixing the little girls hair.

 Baby toys were washed.

 Kyle was NOT okay with all those people there.

He was really overwhelmed and spent most of the day

on my hip if he wasn't sleeping. I tried to distract him

in the exisaucer, but he wasn't gonna have it:)

 Happiness = my babies happy and playing

at my feet.

 I love this picture of Abbi chilling on Simone's leg

while she gets her hair fixed.

 Pauline getting big smiles from Javon.

Ionda had Shemario giggle. It was so cute.

I had never heard him giggle before, but he 

was LOVING the attention he was getting

from Ionda.

Thank You Jesus for These opportunites and

the doors they open to further ministry!

Hands in Praise Concert

On Friday Hands in Praise had a concert to raise money.

So for $50J I was able to watch my kids rock it!

It was so much fun.

The first two videos are a skit/dance they did in MV last

month. Some kids represent addictions and some

are the positive alternative to those addictions. Sorry

I ran out of space on my memory card so I have the 1st part

of the skit and the last part.

The 3rd video is a dance off we had with the kids while

the hands in praise team changed. Sanieka CLEARLY won

:)

The last is one of the songs they do as they minister.

Enjoy!

Who Loves You?

God Loves You!

Happy November Birthday New Hope!

 This past Friday I was able to spend the entire day at New Hope and

I it was so much fun. In the morning we celebrated birthdays, and in the

afternoon while the kiddos slept, I helped organize the back room, and 

waited for Ben and Lawrence to show up and take mesurements for 

New Life's work day there on Sat.

 Ciera enjoying her ice cream cone

 Trishana

 Tafiquie was totally content just playing

with the balloons.

 We celebrated Chantel's birthday.

 And Ted's too!

 Princeton

 the kids excited to get a cupcake

 Cheesy (pronounced Ches e)

 Felicia

( I LOVE this picture of her!)

 This little guy is 2 weeks old and is the newest

addition to New Hope. He doesn't yet have a name

and I hate that. I heard they will possibly name him
David so thats what I have been calling him. 

Yes he is in a stocking. He was our 'model' for this

year's New Hope Children's Home Christmas card:)

He was NOT very happy about being chosen!

A VERY Emotional Moment:

The birthday part was over and a man walked up to the gate while 

the kids were playing outside. Amanda (who runs New Hope)

went to talk to the man, opened the gate and called for Sam. It

turns out this guy was Sam's dad, and came to meet Sam for the first

time......ever. Amanda explained to Sam that this was his dad, that he

wasn't going to take him, but that he wanted to visit with Sam and that

Sam  could ask him anything he wanted. I felt HORRIBLE taking this

picture. It was such an emotional moment, but Amanda asked me to...

so I did. I don't think Sam fully understood what was going on as

his dad cried and did his best to answer Sam's questions. After they

visited for a while Sam took his dad around introducing "dad" to 

everyone and letting us know "you can ask him anything you want."

Over all it was a good visit, and I praise God that Sam can get to know

his dad.