A day of missions in the Dominican Republic might look like this.
It’s 6:00 am time and the rooster is crowing, must not of heard him @ 5:30. Time to get up. Personal devotions at the pool with a cup of coffee. Lots of journaling then group devos with your room. Breakfast then on the bus @8:30 with our ministry supplies. Lather up the sunscreen as its going to be hot and sunny instead of shoveling snow.
Arrive @ LaYaguada village and the little kids come from the village ready to get some loving. My friend I met the first day came to say hi. A four year old boy wearing the same shirt and boxer shorts from yesterday, no shoes but so happy that I came to play again.
The older kids are done with school now 10:00am, so we begin our puppet show with music & explaining the wordless bracelet. Greg & Ashley talked about the characteristics of God. The arts & craft team did coloring sheets.
Now it is time for some baseball. Baseball is an essential part of Dominican culture. If you want to be able to create a relationship with many of the men, it needs to happen on the baseball field. Our baseball field today has cows, cow patties, glass, tires, and other assorted items. Pastor Caesar has created many strong ties in the communities he is trying to reach through baseball. While some are playing baseball, others are playing games with the kids or painting nails and faces.
After we are done it is time for lunch and a question and answer period with Pastor Caesar. Pastor Caesar would like to use the country's love of baseball to reach it for Christ. So it is time to go to another village and do it all over again.
It now
about 90 degrees and the sun is shining bright. The village we went to
does not know we are coming. Shortly after we arrive the kids start
showing up. By the time we are doing the craft (wordless bracelet) there
are about 90 kids in a small brick structure.
Then it was time for baseball again. This time the team was warming up as we arrived. The competition is about to get harder.
Dan Eager starts out for team Core with a double off the wall in left field. After that things did not go very well. They were very kind and let us score a few more runs.
We
were a very hot, dirty, stinky mess as we arrived back to Score. Time
to go jump in the pool, clothes and all. Time to catch up on some
encouragement notes and then dinner. Group meeting with Score and
other churches was a blessing. It was a wonderful choir of students
singing praises to our Creator.
It's an hour before bed time &
group games are played, others chilling with friends before we head in
for the night. Tomorrow we start another day @ 6:00am.
We can feel your prayers and are grateful for them.
It’s 6:00 am time and the rooster is crowing, must not of heard him @ 5:30. Time to get up. Personal devotions at the pool with a cup of coffee. Lots of journaling then group devos with your room. Breakfast then on the bus @8:30 with our ministry supplies. Lather up the sunscreen as its going to be hot and sunny instead of shoveling snow.
Arrive @ LaYaguada village and the little kids come from the village ready to get some loving. My friend I met the first day came to say hi. A four year old boy wearing the same shirt and boxer shorts from yesterday, no shoes but so happy that I came to play again.
The older kids are done with school now 10:00am, so we begin our puppet show with music & explaining the wordless bracelet. Greg & Ashley talked about the characteristics of God. The arts & craft team did coloring sheets.
Now it is time for some baseball. Baseball is an essential part of Dominican culture. If you want to be able to create a relationship with many of the men, it needs to happen on the baseball field. Our baseball field today has cows, cow patties, glass, tires, and other assorted items. Pastor Caesar has created many strong ties in the communities he is trying to reach through baseball. While some are playing baseball, others are playing games with the kids or painting nails and faces.
After we are done it is time for lunch and a question and answer period with Pastor Caesar. Pastor Caesar would like to use the country's love of baseball to reach it for Christ. So it is time to go to another village and do it all over again.
It now
about 90 degrees and the sun is shining bright. The village we went to
does not know we are coming. Shortly after we arrive the kids start
showing up. By the time we are doing the craft (wordless bracelet) there
are about 90 kids in a small brick structure.Then it was time for baseball again. This time the team was warming up as we arrived. The competition is about to get harder.
Dan Eager starts out for team Core with a double off the wall in left field. After that things did not go very well. They were very kind and let us score a few more runs.
We can feel your prayers and are grateful for them.
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