More Info from Bud and Lynda on Storm and the Church

Thanks for all your prayers.  Just got back from the church in Spanish Town.   We were gone five hours of which 2 ½ of them were spend sitting in traffic due  to water in the road.   We’ve included a picture of the road (Nelson Mandella) that we normally take to church.  Since it was covered [...]

Final Gustav Update

This will probably be the last update on Gustav:
For those interested in the aftermath of Gustav here in Jamaica, we’ve included some statistics that we heard last night on the news.

2000 people were displaced
100 roads were flooded
150 houses destroyed
Around 11 deaths so far (some people are missing and haven’t been found so [...]

Further Update on Gustav Damage

The wind blew and it rained heavily all night. Even though the eye of the storm is now on the west end of the island, we are still receiving heavy rains and strong winds. It has been projected to let up later this afternoon.
For those that have been here and know the areas and [...]

The Day After Gustav

Thanks everybody for your prayers for us. We are all fine. Lots of rain and wind but we are OK. I made preparations but despite my sandbagging our doors we woke up with about a half inch of flooding in the living room and dining room. We [...]

Gustav Update

The latest news was the 2:00 advisory (1:00 our time) said that the eye of the storm is 40 miles off the eastern coast and it is moving 5 mph, so we look for the worst to come more around 9:00 p.m. our time (10:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight). We just now finished securing everything [...]

Gustav

I Just wanted to write an update on Gustav. The last update I just saw a few minutes ago (10:50) revealed that the storm is 4 miles per hour away (wind wise) from being a hurricane. It is now in between Hispaniola and us and the worst of it should hit later today and into [...]

Little Guys

Last Sunday when I was standing behind the pulpit, I noticed there was something wrong with the clock at the back of the church. It had been strategically placed there, despite the laid back approach to time – the “me soon come” attitude so prevalent among many Jamaicans. The clock was stuck at [...]