by dev_jov | Aug 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
One child, one set of toys laid out on a mat, one trained adult giving undivided attention while the child decides how to play, a bit of quiet space, and 30 minutes of time … these are all the resources needed to run a Restorative Play Time. Through the group of...
by dev_jov | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
We don’t know what caused the fresh scar on the boy’s neck, and now that it is there, nothing can be done to reverse what happened … but this boy, like all of us, is more than just the sum of his experiences. He had been referred by his school for Restorative Play...
by dev_jov | Mar 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
I told a story in my last update of a moment when some young men had turned up unexpectedly at youth club a few weeks ago, were behaving in a negative way and refusing to leave, and then when Adrian gently escorted the ringleader to the door … the young man...
by dev_jov | Mar 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
“So I gently escorted this teenaged lad to the door … and on the way he said; ‘I’ll shoot you!’” This was how Adrian concluded telling me about an incident that took place at the Junior Youth Programme last week, when we met on Skype a few days after it happened. What...
by dev_jov | Dec 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
“The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.” Luke 10:2 In my last update, one of the things I asked you to pray about was our Advent Pageant on December 2nd, and particularly the...
by dev_jov | Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Lori (not her real name) is fifteen, and attends our youth programme every week. She is normally quick to laugh, quick to get involved in all of the activities, and also keen to hear the testimonies and things that are shared from God’s word. Last week she responded...
by dev_jov | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was twenty years ago this month, I was on a bus heading away from Kingston to Montego Bay, and I was looking out of the window feeling very disheartened and confused. I had come back to Jamaica for a two week trip with one aim; to connect with someone who loved God...
by dev_jov | Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
At the end of my last update there were just two sentences talking about the fact that we were hoping to raise $2,000 USD for our back to school fundraiser this year to help families in the inner city. The background to this is that we have been doing a back to school...
by dev_jov | Jul 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
I wrote the short reflection below in our Fusion Jamaica WhatsApp prayer group about two weeks ago … and I am (mostly) glad that I did! So I will let you read the reflection and then tell a little bit of the story of the last two weeks. “There they strengthened the...
by dev_jov | Jun 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
“He tricked us … because he wanted to kill us!” It was 4am and the young people had hiked for 2 hours the day before, up a very steep climb to where we had made a fire, cooked our dinner and camped for the night. We had then woken at 2am, to keep hiking up in time to...
