When: Friday April 3, 2009 Where: 900 South 400 East Centerville, Utah 84014 Time: 6:00pm For more details go to http://jkmreunion.blogspot.com/ Please RSVP at jkmreunion@gmail.com

It's been many years since I served in Jamaica. In fact I never served in the Jamaica mission... It was called the West Indies mission at the time.

When I arrived in 1983 there were 6 missionaries on the island, 4 elders and 2 sisters. The sister were located in Mandeville the elders in Kingston and Maypen. They were the final sisters to serve on the island unless the policy has changed since then.

I was called to the Florida Ft. Lauderdale mission and arrived in November of 1982. At that time Most of the West Indies were part of our mission including Haiti, Jamaica, Guantanamo Bay, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Leeward and Winward island groups. Dominican Republic and Puerto rico were there own missions. Some of the French speaking island were part of the French missions and missionaries from France were transferred there near the end of their service. About 6 months into my mission I was called to serve in Jamaica around April 1983. Also at that time Haiti became it's own mission.

At our mission conference held in Miami that month the mission President Kenneth L. Zabriskie announced that the Ft. Lauderdale mission was to be dissolved and that Ft. Lauderdale would be part of the Tampa mission. He would be the new West Indies mission president. I was scheduled to leave for Jamaica in July/August 1983 and was working on getting my passport and working Visa to go to Jamaica. Pres. Zabriskie took about 20 missionaries from the Ft. Lauderdale mission with him. He set up the mission Home in Christchurch Barbados. I'll continue part 2 as time permit and memory returns LOL!

McNair emailed me this article this morning. I thought I'd share. http://byunews.byu.edu/archive07-Nov-spencer.aspx

We figure it's about time we all got together again. Jonathan Rupp and I spoke with Sister Moore yesterday and we are going to start getting somethings together for a reunion in 2009. We are planning to have it in April just before General Conference somewhere in the Salt Lake area. More details will come as we get closer.

We want to get as many people there as possible. The first step is to get the word out. We need your information and the contact information for anyone you are still in contact with. We have set up an email address that we'll be using to collect this information and send out updates.

jkmreunion@gmail.com

Send your contact information (email addres, phone #, etc) to this address and pass it along to anyone you come in contact with. Also include the contact info of those you keep in touch with so we can add them to the list.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me. aaron.blaylock@gmail.com

Hope to hear from you all soon.

I just got my mission call to the Jamaica Kingston Mission yesterday and I am super excited. I thought what a better way to learn about the mission that I am going to be serving in than to talk to return missionaries who have served there. I am to report to the MTC on August 8th, 2007. I was just wondering if Jamaica was the only island in the caribbean that this mission covers. Also, any other information about Jamaica would be much appreciated.

Who is the most recent RM who has served in Jamaica?

Welcome to the New Site!

Hello All,
Let's see the show of hands of all those that want to see Jamaica become a Stake pretty soon here......

Hello! Good Day ! I served in the Jamaica Kingston Mission from August 2000 to August 2002. In those two years the missionaries and members of Jamaica witnessed many miracles.

After seeing some of the more recent reports of Jamaica, I realized anything I had to say about the country could be highly outdated. I decided to offer some words of advice to future JKM missionaries.

Dear Future JKM Missionaries, My name is Ryan Mumford and I have been home from my mission for about 2 years now.