Kids Bible app · Portmore, Jamaica
Kids Bible app for Portmore families.
Tonight's reading for Portmore is The Friends Who Cut Through the Roof. It is about faith carried by friends — a subject most households in Portmore are already arguing about anyway, so the conversation starts itself.
ArkQuest is the Bible app Jamaican Christian families in Portmore use for a 5-minute daily quest — Scripture memory, safe by design, no ads, no chat. Works offline for the Portmore commute.
Why Portmore families choose ArkQuest
- ✓ Built for Jamaican Christian homes — 5 minutes a day.
- ✓ Priced in JMD — J$1400/mo for the whole family.
- ✓ Works offline — great for Portmore traffic and patchy data.
- ✓ Safe by design: no ads, no chat, no data sold.
- ✓ Fits Sunday school and homeschool rhythms.
Tonight's family reading · Portmore
The Friends Who Cut Through the Roof — a 5-minute devotion for Portmore families
Mark 2:1-12 · Faith carried by friends
The house was so crowded nobody else could get in, so four friends carried a paralysed man onto the roof, dug through it and lowered him down. Jesus saw their faith and told the man to get up and walk.
This works best in Portmore as a bedtime reading. Lights low, Mark 2:1-12 read slowly, the memory verse said twice, then the prayer. Younger children fall asleep on "faith carried by friends"; older ones usually want to argue about it first, which is fine.
Memory verse
“When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralysed man, 'Son, your sins are forgiven.'”Mark 2:5
Table question
Who needs you to carry them to Jesus right now?
30-second prayer
Jesus, when our own faith is thin, thank you for friends who carry us. Amen.
Make it stick: let a child read Mark 2:1-12 out loud tomorrow instead of you. Reading it to the family is worth ten times hearing it.
Tomorrow: Jesus calls Levi from the tax booth (Mark 2:13-17). ArkQuest queues the next reading automatically, so nobody has to decide what comes after tonight.
On Mount Carmel, Elijah rebuilt an altar of twelve stones before calling on the Lord. What did the twelve stones represent?
Portmore faith-builder community this week
This week, 137 families in Portmore opened ArkQuest at least once — with 86 keeping a daily reading streak alive and 822 memory verses recorded across the city. Peak reading time in Portmore is around 8:20 am, right after the school run.
- Families reading
- 137
- Active streaks
- 86
- Verses learned
- 822
Estimated for low-traffic cities · rolling 7-day window
Devotional sunrise & sunset in Portmore
In Portmore today, the sun rises around 6:07 am and sets around 5:53 pm. Families using the ArkQuest morning quest tend to open it in the 6:07 am – 7:37 am window, and the bedtime prayer prompt lands best between 5:23 pm – 6:53 pm.
🌅 Morning quest window
6:07 am – 7:37 am
Sunrise ~ 6:07 am
🌙 Bedtime prayer window
5:23 pm – 6:53 pm
Sunset ~ 5:53 pm
This week's Jamaica Bible verse challenge
This week's Jamaica Bible verse challenge for Portmore families is Romans 8:28 — "God works all things together for good for those who love him." — with a focus on providence. Recite it once at breakfast and once at bedtime for seven days.
"God works all things together for good for those who love him."
Recite once at breakfast, once at bedtime, for the next seven days. New verse every Monday.