Local Outreach - Lionel Town

For our local outreach in Jamaica, we spent 4 days in Lionel Town doing construction work for the New Testament Church. We dug a small pool for the church to be able to perform baptisms and also moved loads of stones on the land surrounding the church. I think we all felt like are arms were ripped by the end of the week with all the shoveling we did.

In general, Lionel Town is a very poor community. The land is dry, representing the atmosphere of the majority of the people here. When we went on a prayer walk, I sensed a “deadness” over the town. Many people wouldn’t wave or say ‘hello’ back to me when I greeted them.


The 14 of us stayed in a small house at the end of a dirt road. We had 2 beds between the 8 girls and a small bathroom. It was my first experience with the “bucket shower” bathing method. The cool water felt so good after a hard day’s work.

Here's a glimpse of the church that we were working on. We dug out this hole because they wanted a pool to perform baptisms.

Lots and lots of shoveling dirt!!

I didn't actually kiss the frog..but came close. He's my prince charming. What was really funny was how everyone ran away from me when I picked it up. They screamed as if I was holding a crocodile or something...guys included. I don't think Jamaicans like amphibians too much.

We put bandanas over our faces because of all the dust that would pick up from the shoveling.