The Jesus for Jamaica outreach was birthed 15 years ago when the Lord spoke to the heart of Linda Botkin while on a one day trip to the island of Jamaica.  Her heart was broken by what she saw and her life would never be the same again.
Although willing to do whatever God would want of her, she neither felt spiritually nor financially ready to start an outreach of any sort.  It soon became a daily cry to GOD asking what she should do.  After seeking GOD for over a year, she began packing boxes and suitcases of relief items and headed for Jamaica. 

She went to the high mountains where she began ministering to the people she met.  She gave Bibles, shoes, clothing and words of encouragement to the people she met along the paths.  Most people lived in small shanties, sometimes seven or eight children sleeping in one bed.  They had very little food, many times no shoes and no means to send their children to school.  She found the people to be kind, caring and open to the word of GOD.  Her heart was broken by the things that break the heart of GOD.  Determined to help, she spent the next three years, inviting friends and family to join her in Jamaica to help spread the GOOD NEWS.

A few years later while doing ministry on the Western part of the island, a family gave ancestral land to Linda for a church to be built.  Linda returned to the states and was able to raise enough money and recruited 37 people to return to the jungle area of Chamber's Pen and built a church.  The church thrived with over 200 people attending the first service.  Many have been saved and baptized through the efforts of caring Christians.

After moving from place to place and sleeping on school floors, churches, and sharing housing with natives in their little houses, GOD opened up a home for the ministry to lease.  This has become the base camp for JFJ and is located on the Caribbean Sea.  Located there for eleven years, the ministry has been able to build houses for the poor, built and furnished a basic school, built a soup kitchen, started a computer school, opened the second soup kitchen and are in the process of building a clinic and half way house for street families.  GOD has shown favor time and again, having the Prime Minister of Jamaica give land twice to the ministry for building projects.
Teams of caring Christians, Bibles, clothes, shoes, and food have been distributed and ministry has taken place in many schools, along the streets, and with puppets and clowns.

Teams of short term missionaries have joined the army of GOD to help bring forth the GOOD NEWS THAT GOD IS ALIVE IN JAMAICA.

Serving Him,
Linda Botkin-Founder