Jamaican Festival

Thursday Night a group of us drove down to Kingston to watch our MoBay kids perform their dance at the National Celebration of Jamaican Culture. Those that performed were dancing groups, singing groups, and speakers, that had all won awards at previous competitions. The program started at 8 and our kids were the 28th on the program so we waited until about 10:30 to watch them perform. It was a LATE night arriving back home in the early hours of the morning but TOTALLY worth it to watch the kids. We also got to see a few of them before they went on. I was so happy they saw us and knew they had people there supporting them. At the end of the video clip you can hear the crowd go CRAZY when Mario does his MJ impersonation. It just so happened that along with the Prime Minister and other important government people that attended Tito Jackson (MJ's brother) was also there as a "special" guest. The cheering exploded and had not been that loud all night until our kids performed... I was so proud of them they did GREAT!

Sea Container #2

Praise Jesus!

The container arrives right on time.... 2.5 hours late!
Starting to unload the donations

The team helping to unload the trailer

bringing the donations into the factory and sorting them by product

YAY! After 3 hours we can see the end in sight!

Two girls from the team helping us unload.

They did great work with great attitudes!

The kids in front of some of the MANY white buckets they

unloaded and sorted.

The crew that unloaded 58000 lbs of donations

(1110 items) in 3 hours! Great Work Everyone!

Because the container arrived so late on Monday this was our Tuesday crew

that we took over to JDV to help us sort and organize the donations so divers could be sent to pick them up.

A New Idea

At least it is for me... this challenge was given to the Adults at Deaf Camp this week.
The challenge was to draw your prayer. It is said that 70% of communication is not with words or signs but with facial expressions and body language. Since actions speak louder then words those at camp were asked to draw out their prayer. As soon as I heard this idea I thought it was GREAT and so this morning I tried it for myself drawing out my prayer without using words or signs. It took me a while but I had so much fun doing it, and encourage you to give it a try too.

Correction

so on the previous post I messed up my days 1. light and dark not day and night whoops

The Creation Story

These videos show Mario and Mickey sharing the creation story using story boards. We used story boards as a way to help them learn and remember stories from the bible. Each story board uses a signs to help the kids remember main points in the story thus helping them to remember the story as a whole.

1.day and night

2. heaven and earth

3. plants

4. sun/moon/stars (time)

5. fish and birds

6. animals and humans

7. God rested

The Last week in review

The biggest Mango I have ever seen.
A beautiful Montego Bay Sunset

Last week Mary came down with the Connecticut work team. As we were sitting there during team orientation I looked over and saw her from a side profile, and immediately did a double take thinking to myself ... what is my mom doing here? Then about half way through the orientation Blake (who was sitting beside me) starts laughing and I was like what in the world is so funny and after the meeting was over he is like "Erin your mom is here!" and my response "I know!" It was a little freaky how much the side profile looked like mom and how she had many similar features. Later Warren comes up to me and is like do you realize how much she looks like your mom. and so everyone who knows my mom down here agreed 100% that Mary and Molly could be twins.

The side profile of Mary wearing a very Molly jean jumper.

Mary and I

Through the week she was then referred to as mom.

Tamara, Andiceia, and I at the beach Sunday afternoon

Videos of the week are also posted. Games we played (the kids LOVE competition), the winning dance from the dance competition. and the skit the kids performed for the team.