Every morning outreach teams have left at 6:30 AM to minister at primary schools and high schools throughout the Trench Town area during their morning devotions. Their sacrifice of sleep has yielded much fruit. On the week of the crusade an outreach team visited the Jonestown Primary School. The team asked the kids if any of them had gone to the crusade in No Man’s Land. Twenty-five percent of the kids raised their hands. The kids who had not gone were curious and began to ask why they had not known about it. The team extended an invitation to them. By the following day almost every child in the school had gone to the previous night’s crusade!

He Came With a Knife and Left With and Left With a Sword
A Boy Gives up His Weapon and Learns To Forgive

An outreach member saw another boy, 13 years old, running around with a big kitchen knife. She asked a male outreach member to try and apprehend him before there was trouble. The outreach member approached the boy and asked him where the knife was, because he knew that he had one. The boy reluctantly gave him the knife. The outreach member began to minister to the boy but he was very resistant and demanded his knife back. The outreach team member asked him why he needed the knife. The boy answered that he needed the knife to protect himself from the guys in Rima, a neighboring community to Trench Town. One of them had stabbed him before. He showed the outreach team member the scar where he had been stabbed.

The outreach team member continued to minister to him and asked another brother to come over and help him. The brother asked the team member to tell the boy his testimony which also had drugs and violence. The team member told the boy that the love of God would protect him and that he needed to forgive the boy who stabbed him. The boy did not want to forgive him. The team member told him the story of Toney, the first boy with a knife and the kid he attacked who gave their hearts to Jesus. The boy relented and gave his heart to Jesus, and forgave the boy who stabbed him. The team member kept the knife and the boy got a bible.

It’s For Real
A Follow-up on the Boy Not Tough Enough To Make It In Hell

In case you were wondering about Toney, the first boy with a knife we told you about, who got saved at the prayer night before the crusade along with the boy he attacked, here’s a follow-up. He came back the second night all dressed up, no weapons, calm, well-behaved and smiling. There was a peace in his countenance. One could see the change. He returned every night of the crusade. On the last night he was accosted by another kid who wanted him to go with him to jump another boy. Toney opened his shirt and showed him that he had no weapons and would not go with him. He then asked the team member who had led him to the Lord to give him a bible and a TSC CD. Toney left with his new weapon, the word of God!

Jamaica Shall Know That I Am God
The Lord Sends a Prophetic Word on The Last Night of the Crusade

On this last night of the crusade, Pastor Carter gave a prophetic word based on the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15 to the crowd of approximately 10-12,000 people gathered in No Man’s Land, the largest number of the crusade. He explained to the crowd that like the love of the Father in the prodigal son, Jesus’ love goes beyond forgiveness. He will restore everything that the devil has taken away. “God says you are going to rise up. You shall know that I am the Lord and all the world will know that I am the only one who could have done it. I will sanctify my great name. I will do it because of who I am.”

He gave a prophetic word to the communities around Trench Town: “No Man’s Land shall be tilled. I am going to take this empty place and put my Spirit here and Jamaica shall know that I am God. I have spoken it and I will do it.” He exhorted them: “Don’t tell God that he can’t do something. You don’t have to know how it’s going to happen. It will just happen!” And he emphasized that God wanted them to enquire only of him, and no one else. He would rebuild the old waste places and make No Man’s Land into a Garden of Eden.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands responded to the altar call and the exhuberant joy in the people as they worshiped broke our hearts and lifted our spirits, for we knew that God had done a miracle. The worship that followed was like a heavenly celebration. The crowd chanted for more when the worship ended. The worship was extended and the people danced and sang like never before. For that moment No Man’s Land echoed heaven’s praises, for its deliverer was in their midst.

Family Night
We Thank God and Share Testimonies with Pastor Carter on the Last Night of the Crusade

After the last night of the crusade, Pastor Carter and Teresa Conlon joined the choir and the teams at Fellowship Tabernacle, a local church where we have been gathering for dinner every night. Teresa Conlon played host and asked choir and outreach team members to come up and share testimonies that they would bust if they didn’t share. A few of us were happy to oblige.

We thanked God and sang “To God Be The Glory”, and Pastor Carter remarked that what has happened here would be remembered as the Jamaica Miracle. Indeed, to God be the glory!