19 Jun Salem Youth Group Pouring Cement in Jamaica

Six youth and four adult leaders from the One Way Youth Ministry of Salem UB church (Chambersburg, Pa.), are currently working at Regent College of the Caribbean in Jamaica. The group arrived in Jamaica June 13. They have been helping Global Ministers staffer Dwight Kuntz lay down a sidewalk network that now connects the three main buildings on the campus.

Joining them are five Jamaicans–a foreman hired by Dwight Kuntz, two workers from the college, and two youth from the local Salem UB church in Jamaica. In the first three days of work, they finished the main portion of the sidewalk project. On Thursday morning, they planned to build steps and some stepping stones to connect some other smaller buildings and parking spaces to the sidewalk system.

Says Dwight, “On Thursday afternoon, the group will go to the local Salem UB church where they will meet with, pray for, and hand out food bundles to about 25 families who could use a loving helping hand. These are families from the community that the church wants to minister to in its outreach program.”

The group will leave on June 21.

“They will be greatly missed, as they have been a joy to work with this week,” says Dwight. “They have worked as hard as any group I have worked with over the years. The way they have joined in and worked alongside the locals has been wonderful to see, and I know will leave them with friendships the rest of their lives. They have truly been about what God has called us all to do, ‘Go into all the world and tell them about Jesus Christ.'”