Hello from Jamaica!
I am not sure where to begin this experience has been different from other experiences , I have learned that I am just going though the motions of my walk. Not really having any growth moments right now just kind of sitting in a plateau not really going anywhere I am realizing I need to start walking with the Lord more. Spending more time in his world daily not just when I am away on a mission trip. VBS is going well I am really enjoying my time as Windsor children’s home and of course you guessed it I want to bring all 50 school aged children and all of the 13 babies home with me but I am keep telling myself I cannot do. And I can come back next year. To all my friends at the Arc I miss you miss you. Friday we head to Montego Bay for our fun day and fly out Saturday afternoon. I cannot wait to see all of you back home.
Love in Christ,
Brooke Hohfeld

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Hey Y’all,
I’m not sure what all I’m supposed to say on this thing so please bear with me and I shall do my best. I’m a member of the VBS core team and one of only 2 guys on said team. By Wednesday morning most of us had developed some sort of a relationship with a few of the kids. We love on every single child there at the Orphanage but a few kids have managed to make a special impact in my heart. The first is an 8-year-old boy named Raymond who, on the first day, ran right up and grabbed my hand. He makes it a special point to be either by my side or in my arms the entire time I am there. His best friend is a boy named Ivan whom Blake Boyd has a great relationship with last year. (Blake, he remembers you and wants to know where his green Grace Church Jamaica-2009 shirt is.) When I take out my camera to take some pictures they immediately bust out some sunglasses and put on their biggest smiles. They also want to see every picture I take and take some themselves. Now many of y’all may not know me or know what I look like, so just to catch you up with everyone here at the JDV, I’m about 6’5” and the children use me as a walking, talking jungle gym. Yesterday during the last 15 minutes of VBS at the Orphanage 10 kids created a game called “Touch the Ceiling”. This game consists of me lifting them up to the ceiling so that they can touch it. The faster the better. Now that may not seem all that bad because the biggest kid can’t way more than 70 lbs, but when you have 10-15 kids all wanting to touch the ceiling more than once than who needs to go to the gym? You can get a perfectly great workout by coming to the Windsor. The girl who created this game Kareem Cornwall is also like Raymond and never wants to leave my side. She is a beautiful girl who is always the first to say hello and the last to say good-bye to me. I’m truly going to miss seeing these wonderful children every day and am so thankful God has given me the opportunity to come to Jamaica for a second time. Thank y’all for taking the time to read what I have to say. Hope everything is well back home. Mom, Dad, Whitney, Adrienne, Matt and Lance, I mss and love you all. To my nephew Will, I miss you and love you like crazy buddy and I can’t wait to see you again. And to my other nephew Max, I’m looking forward to seeing you for the first time. Take care everyone.

-Brent Walker


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Greetings from Jamaica and the Deaf Village. We miss all of our family back at Grace Church and appreciate your prayers and support. This mission trip is a testimony to how God can and does bless a body of believers who works together in His field of service, whether giving, praying, or going. We are truly blessed. I miss those of you who, for whatever reasons, could not be with us this year—Valerie and Karen, I’m talking to you! Caren Foster, I miss you but feel your prayer support.
Our ministry at the Windsor Lodge went very well, thanks to your prayers and those of our team. It was great to renew acquaintances with children I’ve come to know and love over the past several years and to meet new kids as well, esp. the 13 new babies. My special friend there—Andre Poyser—has graduated valedictorian of his class at Munro College and is enrolled at the University of the West Indies in Kingston for the fall term. He is a wonderful Christian young man, one who has a very promising future ahead. He will be missed at Windsor because he has been such a wonderful mentor for the younger boys there.
Bob, I love and miss you. I’ll see you Saturday night.

T. J. Wright