Justice Water with Jamie

Sitting here in Houston, I've realized that I haven't updated anyone on what has been happening in my life for quite some time so this should be a whopper of an update.  I spent this summer in the Dominican Republic and in Haiti and was blessed to really see and get to know the island deeply and intimately.  In the three months that I was there, I spent at least a week in 6 different cities, full on learned a language, learned more about what fully relying on God is like, and built ...

My time in the DR is nearly over and we will be going into Haiti on Tuesday!!  I have loved being around this country and have gotten a much more thorough view of what the whole country is like over the last few weeks.  We got to build a house and latrine with the base in San Pedro and then last week got to build a rain catchment tank with a DTS team from Kona in Santo Domingo.  It has been incredible to get to meet so many people who really love and are following the Lord and ...

I am well into my time in the Dominican Republic now- have been here for a week and a half already!!  We are living at a YWAM base in Azua.  Most of the staff here are Haitians who were a part of the Port-Au-Prince DTS last summer.  Sean and Stephen- the guys I came with, were also involved in that DTS; Sean was the school leader and Stephen was a student in it.  The country is beautiful- we live a 2 minute walk from the ocean and last week we did a tour through some of th...

Been lots of moving around these last few months!  I am flying out of Hawaii on Friday and my time here has been flying by.  Last week I was privileged to get to teach Justice Water 4 out of 5 days in the foundation school for the high school kids.  It was neat to get to prepare the classes and teach them with total control of what we covered and where my focus was.  A couple members of our staff helped me by critiquing the classes that I taught and by checking my material...

It is the beginning of my third week in Kona now and I am now feeling more used to the pace of things and what my role is.  I will be working as a teacher in the DTS classes this quarter and helping Stephanie and Jenessa with teaching about the water crisis and sanitation in the Elementary school.  On Friday last week, we worked with Water for Life on a tank that is being built on campus.  This tank is being done differently than tanks have been done before- instead of wood for...

Well I finally got back to Hawaii and am incredibly excited to be moving into this new stage of life.  I'm realizing that even though i am back in Kona, it really is something new with an exciting new role, different people around, and a different focus.  There is going to be tons for me to learn during this season of life but I am here now in a position of teaching and some leadership instead of being here as a student and because of this, there has to be a slightly different ...

Busy day today- I'm just trying to wrap stuff up here at home; see people who I haven't yet seen, get banking and insurance stuff all perfect, and help the family with what I can.  Today is Cara's birthday and I went out to Lacombe this morning to see her and eat breakfast with her.  It was great to get to hang with my little sister- she is becoming an amazing woman of God.  I also got to enjoy the priviledge of talking to my mom's class of grade 5 students about my journeys an...