Jamaica
Field Facilitator
Fresh Bread Ministries
Outreach Activities in Jamaica
- Ministry to children and youth
- Opportunities to minister in orphanages and boys and girls homes
- School Ministry & Street Evangelism
- Construction on churches and community buildings that have hurricane damage
- Evangelism at AIDS hospice, nursing homes, and hospitals
- Friendship evangelism to Rastafarians
Ministry outreach locations
Montego Bay and surrounding areas
Population
2,706,000; Annual growth rate of 1.4%
Peoples
Afro-Caribbean - 93.7%
- Asian / Afro-Asian - 5.0%
- Euro-American - 1.3%
Languages
Official Language is English.
Capital
Kingston-St. Andrew: 801,000.
Economy
A flirtation with Cuban-style socialism in the '70s damaged the bauxite, sugar, and banana industries and drove away the tourists on which the country had depended. Successive goverments in the '80s had sought to repair the economy, but a devastating hurricane in 1988 was a further setback. Economic miser, poverty in the urban shanty towns, a high crime rate, a large foreign debt and 18% unemployment are the result. Public debt/person $1,600. Income/person is $1,080 (5% of USA).
Location
The third largest island in the Caribbean.
Politics
Independent of Britain in 1962 as a parliamentary democracy. Reasonably stable politically despite economic disarray and social violence.
Religion
Freedom of religion.
- Protestant: 69.8%
- Roman Catholic: 11.3%
- Spiritist/Cultist: 9.5%
- Indigenous Marginal: 4.1%
- Non-religious/Other: 3.8%
