The TSC Advance Team Prepares for the Outreaches & Crusade
Jamaican Beef Patties and Lots of Prayer

The several ministry teams are busy preparing for the outreaches and crusades. The children’s ministry team is planning the Children’s Rally on Saturday and Children’s Crusade that will be held simultaneously with the large crusade. Part of their first order of business was to meet with the local pastors collaborating in putting together the children’s crusade to agree on how the children will be led to Christ. They came away blessed and awed by the work the Holy Spirit has already done in providing these faithful local pastors and churches to work alongside TSC. Outreach team leaders are busy refining the outreach schedule that will include two medical clinics in Jonestown and Denham Town, neighborhoods in Trench Town, as well as visits to primary schools and high schools, as well as a prison and home for abused women.

Pastors Breakfast
A Bond is Formed

Times Square Church and the pastors organizing committee hosted a breakfast for local pastors who committed to help with the pastors conference and crusade. Pastor Carter shared God’s mandate for Times Square Church in coming to Jamaica and gave a testimony of the powerful move of God in prior TSC outreaches held in the Philippines and Nigeria. He emphasized that these outreaches to the nations are not about Times Square Church but about the power and presence of God in these meetings. Pastor Carter was very clear about coming as a servant and working with the local church, recognizing the importance of their role in preparing the ground and in meeting the needs of those who God touches at these meetings. He referred to Trench Town’s history of having been rejected by the church for being too poor even though it was a godly community. Now, he believes God now wants the church to rectify what it failed to do over a hundred years ago.

Press Briefing: October 8, 9:15 AM
An Invitation to an Incredible Banquet of God

Members of Jamaica’s television, radio and print media came to a press briefing today on the Pastors Conference and the Trench Town Crusade. The question on everyone’s mind is: “Why Jamaica? Why Trench Town? Why now?” Pastor Carter explained that the Holy Spirit prompted the leadership of Times Square Church to come to Jamaica.

“It’s not about where we want to go but where the Holy Spirit is leading us to. We prayed and prayed for the Lord to tell us in which country to hold an international outreach this year and I could not shake Jamaica off my mind. I shared this with Pastor David, and he confirmed that God was putting the same idea in his heart. We sent an advance team to Jamaica, as we usually do, to pray and see what the Lord would have us do. When the team visited Trench Town there was a leap in their spirit. This was not a sign but a confirmation of what we already knew in our hearts, that this is where God wanted Times Square Church to come.”

“We want to invite the people of Trench Town and Jamaica to an incredible banquet of God. We come with no agenda, only out of obedience to God. We will take no offering and will cover all costs of the conference and crusade ourselves. We believe, as Hudson Taylor, the well-known missionary to China once said, “Work done God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” Our only desire is to bless the pastors, the churches, and the people of Jamaica, and to lift up the name of Christ.”

The Pastors Conference Begins: October 8, 7 PM, Session #1
Pastor Carter brings a Prophetic Word to the Jamaican Pastors

Today is the first day of the Pastors Conference at the National Arena in Kingston, Jamaica. Over 1,600 churches all over Jamaica and across all denominational lines were contacted by the local partner churches. Interest in the conference from the part of pastors, churches and the media has been high as this is the first national pastors conference ever held in Jamaica.

Approximately 800 pastors attended the first session today. The TSC ensemble and band ministered in praise and worship, and to the delight of the Jamaican ministers and church leaders present, they discovered we sing their type of music!

Pastor Carter preached a prophetic word to the Jamaican pastors from Isaiah 58 challenging them to stop seeking God for themselves and reach out to the poor and the lost in Trench Town and in their nation. If they obey God in this, he asserted, God will give them a new ministry, he will open his word to them, they will preach like they’ve never preached before, they will build up the old waste places and make them repairers of the breach. Two-thirds of the ministers present responded to the altar call, and a wonderful time of worship followed this powerful and prophetic word of God to the Jamaican pastors.