Prayer of Faith

Haley is sick today so I used my Bible's concordance to find a passage about sickness for her to read and this is what I found:

James 5:13-20

¹³Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. ¹⁴Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him,anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. ¹⁷Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ¹⁸ Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

¹⁹My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, ²⁰let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

I feel like everything in this passage is important for us to remember in our work here in Jamaica and at home. We need to express how we are: suffering, cheerfulness, sickness. I find it really interesting how forgiveness of sins and healing go hand in hand. Also that confessing sins comes before ministering to people who have wandered from the faith. That is the part I think is so important in Jamaica. We need to be super aware of our spiritual position before we go out in the streets.

Laser Sounds

I realized after I posted the last blog that I forgot to mention why I titled it "Creeperazzi". Well, yesterday at the beach, Chelsea (from the other team) and I were taking photos of people on the team without them knowing and said we "paparazzi'd" them. Then, on the bus we were making fun of Chris for taking weird pics of people and called him a creeper. After making fun of him for a bit I fessed up to taking pictures of them all while they were sleeping on the bus during the ride from kingston. Chris called me a creeper, I said, "no, I'm paparazzi", he said "more like creeperazzi" and Chelsea and I were infinitely amused.

Laser sounds are because Mr. Betty, one of the bus drivers likes to listen to praise music while we're driving, but it's really funny because it's in the style of dancehall raggae so there are laser sounds mixed in and a guy going "hey hey hey" in the background.

Today has been good. The team did 2 schools and a correctional facility. Haley and I are waiting for them to get back from the correctional facility. We came back to the hotel when Mark came to pick up their lunch so that we could rest. The team is really tired too, so pray for their endurance through the night show and courage to share the gospel. Tonight is their last show, tomorrow is their Recreation day and then Horizons comes in on Wednesday and we all head to the Sunflower in Ochi on Thursday =)

Creeperazzi

Today was fun. Haley and I got to know the team a lot better. The first thing we did was go to a "Place of Safety", which is a home for girls. We all had a really good time dancing with the girls. After that we were supposed to go to a prison, but the boys were eating lunch, so we waited at a beach for about and hour. I got to know Chelsea some more and learned a lot more names. For the night show, we went to a church in Kingston. I call it a church, but it was really foundation with poles and a tarp over it. I got to play with some kids and we walked a round a little to invite people to come over. There were a ton of kids at the show!

We're going to church tomorrow. It should be fun. Pray for the team's endurance. We're all starting to get tired because we've been getting up early and going to bed late.