Community Impact

More Opportunities To Serve

On my last visit to Jamaica I stopped by the clinic to do an inventory. I had one of the young men from the community with me. I had difficulty reading a fine print label on one of the medication bottles — I didn’t have my reading glasses with me.

I asked the young man to help me out, stating “you are much younger than I am, you should be able to see the writing.” He graciously took the bottle from me and tried to help me out. I noticed that he was having a very hard time reading the label. I started to think, my goodness, he must need glasses too. Suddenly the young man piped up, “I can’t do this reading very well, I only finished the 6th grade.”

Again, seeing a need and meeting it came into play. I shared the story with Pastor Fay. As a result, we will be starting our first literacy class, providing a second chance to those who were not able to finish school or those who just can’t read.