Central Worship Centre Mission Team 2010

Pastor Tim Dukes and sixty four other missionaries from his Church, Central Worship Centre and the Delmarva Christian High school, Delaware, visited Teen Challenge Jamaica  January, 11-19, 2010.

Instead of been involved in construction work like the previous years they partnered with us in community outreach, school outreaches and a street meeting.  The team visited a infirmary in Priory St. Ann where they ministered to a number of golden agers, they visited three high schools in the St. Ann and St Mary areas and shared in devotions with the students. They visited Windsor girls home and the juvenile prison in Bamboo St. Ann where they brought a message of hope to the wards in both institutions.  The street meeting was held at the Ocho Rios clock tower; about four hundred persons were in attendance to hear the good news, fifteen of which gave their lives to the Lord.  The team was also involved in construction; they built and renovated some small houses in and around the community where our center is located.

 Graduation Glory

Graduation for students, who have completed since April 09, was held on Saturday, March 6, 2010, at the First Assemblies of God Church, Ocho Rios. Sixteen (16) men graduated the program; our Guest Speaker was Pastor Steve Milazzo of Bethlehem Assemblies of God, Long Island, NY. He was an inspiration to us all.  It was a great time of celebration.

The following persons graduated: David Betsha, Omar Case, Howard Gordon, Asquith Henry, Kip- keno  Henry, Daniel John, Patrick Lewis, Michael  Mahadeo, Anthony Marriott, Adrian Masters, Errol McCalla, Theo-Omar McLaughlin, Alvest Nelson, Dennis Osbourne, Barrington Richards, Noel Williams. Eight men of this batch are still with us, some doing their internships.

Team Training

We had our first formal local staff training on Residential Rehabilitation in October, 2009. Heads of department were enlisted to train in their respective areas, it was a refreshing  and motivating two days for our senior staff and our interns benefited significantly, The Director designated for the Grand Cayman Teen Challenge was in attendance and spoke highly of the level of training he received over the two days.  Charles Boucher and two of his staff members again visited TCJ during the week January 18^th-23 for hands on training.  They were given a check list by the Global representative for the region to follow.  The feedback from the Cayman team was that is was very good training and equipping. Charles Boucher did Personality Insight training with the TCJ team which really blessed us.

John Steigerwald was on the Island between November 30 - December 6, 2009 during which he did four days of training on Integrity with our team, it was another insightful and well needed training and he also spent eight hours over four days with the student body.

Steve Milazzo did two days of staff training with staff and interns on March 4^th and 5^th; he was also our Key note Speaker at our graduation on March 6^th.

Global Teen Challenge chose TCJ to hold a regional PSNC training for Directors and teachers from the English speaking Caribbean June 7-11, 2010, Trinidad & Tobago were in attendance, Gregg and Linda Fischer conducted four intense days of training.