Robert, one of our local seed sowers, spent last January in Jamaica preaching the gospel and witnessing to the lost.  I noticed a journal of this on a website, and thought I would share one entry they had.  For the entire journal, go to THIS LINK.  I am praying about joining Mike and Robert there next year, if they decide to go again. 

Monday, January 18, 2010:  An email from our brothers in Jamaica… please keep praying for them!!! Here is what they wrote: “We are doing very well. We think we’ve distributed nearly 9000 tracts. We claimed a place downtown Montego Bay called Sam Sharp Square as holy ground and we give tracts and do various readings from the Bible in the open air during the mornings. Sam Sharpe is a national hero who spent most of his time travelling to different estates in the area educating the slaves about Christianity and freedom. He became a Baptist preacher. We preach in the evenings and give more tracts and bibles. We are down to about 500 tracts which we hope will get us through next week. Someone told us people wouldn’t listen to us yet we know they are because people take bibles and tracts, some are broken and others ask us to pray for them for various things going on in their lives. Everyday the question of the day we get is,” what must i do to be saved?” Yesterday someone asked after his friends mouthes were stopped by the Law, “what must i do to get under the Blood?” We met a great Irish family, a pastor, his wife and three sons, Pastor Paul, Pamela and their sons Luke, John and Jason. Miss Pamela heard us preaching in the square one morning and since then they have invited us to their prayer meetings, out for dinner and for fellowship. We’ve been praying for the growth of their ministry and the people of Jamaica. We are in awe of Pastor Paul preaching and his prayers! Everyday we see the hand of God working! We serve an awesome God!  Thanks to everyone praying! Don’t quit.”

 

 

 

One of our local seed sowers went to Jamaica in January.  This is his account of how it went.

Thank you all so very much for your constant prayers!  The mission trip to Jamaica was amazing!  Gospel tracts were flying out of our hands the moment we arrived at the airport in Montego Bay.  The “fish” were biting so much we asked our ride to come back and get us later. 
 
The mission:
To share and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Montego Bay, Jamaica. 
 
The standard operating procedure: 
We’d walk to the city center called Sam Sharp Square, distribute tracts, and do 1-2-1 witnessing along the way.  We claimed Sam Sharp Square as holy ground.  Mr. Sharpe was a national hero who spent most of his time travelling to different estates in the area educating the slaves about Christianity and freedom.  He became a Baptist preacher.  When we arrived in the square we’d give more tracts, then read from the gospels.  Some days people would ask us to read more.  Back to our room to rest up and study our Bibles for the evening preaching.  Evenings consisted of walking back to the square, giving more tracts and doing open air meetings from two locations.  Mike brought his portable amplifier and it worked out great as it enabled us to be heard over the city trafffic.  We had favor with the police, they didn’t say one word about the preaching.  We walked about 6 miles a day. 
 
The people:
The Jamaican people were very receptive and rarely turned down the tracts.  We saw people carrying the tracts the next day and reading them in various places.  We were encouraged by people who would say the preaching of the gospel is much needed in Jamaica.  It seemed like most of the people during the 1-2-1 witnessing would say in general “must I do to be saved.”  People would come asking for prayer too.  The only people who weren’t too happy with us were the ones from the different cults we encountered every day.  Jamaica is such a religious place.  Just before we left a young man asked us if he is supposed to believe the Bible or the church.   
 
The distribution: 
We think we distributed nearly 20,000 tracts.  Isn’t that amazing?!  Just imagine how many hands they actually got into and how many more may still see and read them.  Think of how many were shown to family, friends and neighbors around the city, in the hills, and along the countryside.  i can still hear the people saying, “Hey look what i got the other day?”  The Word of God sown into the hands of 20,000 people and only God knows how many more.  Praise God that the power is in the seed and not in the sower!  The amazing thing is that we brought about 10,000 tracts between the two of us.  No resupply came from home as we were expecting.  Yet God provided as our ship came in….literally.  We were ministry guests on a ship called the Logos Hope.  The ship travels to different ports worldwide with an international crew of over 400 Christian volunteers from as many as 46 countries selling books and doing ministry work.  We had the opportunity to take some of the crew members into the Sam Sharp to share the gospel.  We met the advance team when we checked into the place we were staying, the Fair Haven, and they asked us to lead a team of volunteers from the ship.  They supplied us with lots and lots of tracts.  We also got more tracts and Bibles from the other mission teams staying at the Fair Haven during our 4 weeks there.  We gave away over a 100 Bibles too.   How many more people were reached by 20 nights of the preaching of the gospel?!  God knows!!!!  The people would take the tracts from our hands as we preached.     
 
The family: 
We met a wonderful Irish family, a pastor, his wife and three sons, Pastor Paul, Pamela and their sons Luke, John and Jason.  They’ve been missionaries to Jamaica for nearly 17 years.  Miss Pamela heard us preaching in the square one morning and invited us to their prayer meeting that evening.  We spent a lot of time with the family at other prayer meetings, sharing in family devotions, eating dinner and enjoying fellowship.  God provided us a family while we were away from home.  
 
The results:
We were obedient to what we were called to do….to share the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world.  If we do what we are supposed to do it results in 100% effectiveness.  No striving for decisions while calling men to repent and believe the gospel.  We rely on the Holy Spirit to bring men to conviction and for Christ alone to do the saving of souls.  Mission complete.   
 
Everyday we saw the hand of God working!  At the end of each day we’d say, “wasn’t that amazing!  How are we going to describe this to people when we get home?”  We serve an awesome God!   
 
Thanks again for your prayers.  May ask for another favor?  Please continue to pray for the people of Montego Bay and rest of Jamaica and for the continued growth of Pastor’s Paul their ministry and the planting of a second church in Montego Bay.  Also, pray for my brother in Christ Mike Stockwell, may God continue to guide him and bless his journey and the ministry crosscountryevangelism.  It was a tremendous honor to serve with him and i look forward to the next time the Holy Spirit brings us back together again to bring our Father glory!     
 
robert
 
Robert
Go Warn Them
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