Adopt a Caribbean School is a
new programme being introduced which enables a church, either
from within the Caribbean or Internationally, to help and support
schools through the Inter School Christian Fellowship, Son Shine
Clubs or After School Clubs within our local Caribbean schools
or churches. The programme will start in Haiti,
and rapidly extend, God willing, into Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad,
Antigua, St Lucia, Guyana and Suriname.
It has been designed to create,
establish and encourage linkages between the schools throughout
CARICOM and extending into Africa with International Churches,
who are better equipped to give financial support and International
Church Youth Groups who can enjoy Caribbean Mission Holiday
Outreaches. The opportunity exists to give financial support
to various Character Building
and Evangelical Educational Programmes
that United Caribbean Trust is introducing into schools, After
School Clubs, various Community
Centres and Early Childhood
Music Learning Centres.
United Caribbean Trust has established
a Caribbean equivalent to Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas
Child, we have called our project 'Make
Jesus Smile'
We have extended the project into numerous
schools within Barbados and it seems destined to become an
end of term activity. Enabling the children of Barbados to
send a shoe box of love and hope into desperately poor situations,
such as Haiti, the Carib Territory of Dominica, Brazil and
Suriname.
This is a perfect opportunity to get involved within schools
and establish linkages necessary for the Adopt a School Programme.
Seen here Freres Unis School in Haiti
one of the schools on UCT's data base wishing to get involved
in the Haiti Adopt
a School Programme.
This school is crying out
for a Working Holiday or Mission Holiday team to visit and paint
the walls... can you help?
Caribbean Mission Holiday Packages
The opportunities that this Adopt
a School programme opens within the Christian Mission Holidays
market is immense. This is a niche market that UCT seeks to
tap to establish Kingdom Building business opportunities to
channel money into the Trust to build on the already established
Child Sponsorship Programme.
Seen here Grace
Christian Academyin Barbados demonstrating a
practical version of their mission statement - Leading
students to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ,
Building them up to their full potential
in Him, and to Equipping them to serve Him.
We look forward to the day when teams of American
and European youths can visit the Caribbean for school ministry
sharing the love of Jesus in a powerful exciting way and having
fun at the same time.
The benefits to be gained for participating churches include:
• the opportunity for lending compassionate support to students
from the Caribbean;
• the learning experience of a cultural exchange of information
on respective countries;
• the opportunity to form long-lasting friendships via Internet
and airmail;
• the exchange of ideas, opinions and “a glimpse”
at the lifestyle of another child;
• The opportunity to visit other islands of the Caribbean.
• The opportunity for International schools to get involved
in the School Twinning Programme
The Schools Twinning Educational
Empowerment programme has been designed to establish linkages
between the schools of the Caribbean, expanding exponentially
to enjoy the camaraderie resulting from a global network.
It is the intention of United Caribbean Trust
to create a dedicated web page for each participating school;
this page will be useful in lending encouragement to the potential
for IT Programmes. It will facilitate familiarity with computers
and will be designed to attract equipment and other “wish
list” donations, globally. This page is a framework
that teachers and pupils can build on.
Here is how it all began
- the first concept of the School Twinning Programme
Following the devastation of
hurricane Ivan in September 2004, principles, parents and
pupils were interviewed in an attempt to test the market for
this new project and a very positive response has now encouraged
the United Caribbean Trust to proceed with the programme in
Barbados, Dominica, Haiti, Guyana and Suriname.
Seen here the Carriacou Ministry of Education,
Mrs. Gertrude Niles (Click
to read letter from Mrs Niles)
A suggestion was made to look into twinning
schools from Barbados and Trinidad with schools in Carriacou,
Haiti, Guyana and Suriname, this was met with enthusiasm and
with that in mind we agreed to create web pages for each school
with a view of building on these pages as Caribbean and International
support is obtained. <
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Praise
Academy of Dance Barbados began in 2003; it is an affiliate
of Praise Academy of Dance Jamaica which was established by
C. Patricia Noble in 1993. This inter-denominational, non-profit
company, headed by Artistic Director Marcia Weekes, has a
roll of 185+ students and a 7 member staff. Praise Academy
of Dance is a non-profit company which is administrated by
a Board of Directors
"I
will give you my message in the form of a vision.
Write it
clearly enough to be read at a glance. At the
time I have decided, my words will come true."
Habakkuk
2: 2-3
The 10/40 Window confronts
us with several important considerations:
• first,
the historical and biblical significance;
• second, the least evangelized countries
with 6,000 unreached people groups;
• third, the large number of poor and
diseased;
• fourth, the least evangelized mega-cities;
• sixth, the dominance of three religions;
• seventh, the strongholds of Satan
within ‘The 10/40 Window’.
"The
poor are the lost, and the lost are the poor."
Missions is the heartbeat of God
It is our urgent call to provide
sponsorship for not only the orphans but also to support and
empower the body of Christ and send them out for the Great
Commission.
"So we follow the chart of God’s
Word, propelled by the wind of the Spirit, and stay the course
in our worldwide mission." - L. John Bueno -
Executive DirectorAssemblies of God World Missions
Barbados
Gospelfest was established in
1993 by the Barbados Tourist Board (BTB). The festival was
the brainchild of the then Minister of Tourism Wes Hall, now
Rev. Wes Hall. In 1995 the responsibility for the production
of the festival was passed on to the Gospelfest Organising
Committee made up of persons from the Christian community,
chaired by Barbadian event manager Adrian Agard.
Pastor Happy
from Africa leading the way in evangelism and youth outreach
in Carriacou.Thy
Kingdom Come Deliverance Sanctuary is a beacon of Faith.
This young community, struck by two major hurricanes, stepped
out in Faith and God showed Himself might. Pastor Happy was
given a word from God ten days before hurricane Ivan totally
distroyed Grenada, ' There will be a great storm and after
the storm a great revival'... watch this space!
United
Caribbean Trust seeks to establish bases throughout the Caribbean,
sold as ‘Christian
Timeshare Holiday Resorts’ outside of the hurricane
season (thus fund the Trust) and opened to Christian youth
groups and Caribbean churches from August to October as conferance
retreat centres. In the event of a disaster they would become
accommodation for relief workers and street evangelist as
well as distribution centres.