So
today was the last ministry day here in the beautiful Dominican
Republic.
We started the day with packing 75 bags of food for the two
villages we have been involved with through this week. Each bag was
filled with sardines, TP, rice, pasta, oatmeal, chocolate, soap, beans,
salt, powdered juice, sugar, oil, corn mix, powdered milk, etc.
After we filled the bags we took a group picture, loaded up the buses, and took off to the first village, La Yeguada.
Once we arrived we got out and waited for what seemed to be about 20 minutes until the kids came out and then went on to start a whiffle-ball game. During the game some of the adults started coming out and one man named Manuel came out and after telling him we were not going to play a big baseball game with the older guys, he joined the game and started pitching. The game lasted about hour or so; then we moved on to the small pavilion-type building where we did crafts and other ministries like the evanga-balls earlier in the week.
Once we all gathered Pastor Ceasar said a few words to the
people in the village, and then Pastor Jake thanked the people for their
hospitality in allowing us to come and witness to them.
After meeting Cesar’s wife, I helped set up chairs for the group for lunch time. After lunch we all went into the church where Jake thanked the people of the church for allowing us to be with them this week.
We had testimonies from Ashley, Greg, Taylor, Wyatt and Renee. Zaida, Cesar’s wife, and Nando, one of the members of his church gave their testimonies as well. After this, our food distribution was similar to the one at the last village. We gave out 25 bags of food, one for every family in the village, and each family had two teens pray for them as they handed out their bag of food.
After that, we had Josh and Marissa give their testimonies and when they had finished Ceasar started calling off the names of the people to come and take food bags. Now in this village we gave 50 bags away and the way it was done is a person from our group would take the bags and hand them to the people called and pray with that person before they left.
At the end of this process we began playing with the kids again. While this was happening Manuel came to a few of us and had us all sign his baseball cap and told us because of the impact we had there that we had strengthened his faith and we later found he had been saved for only a month.
Then it was time for all but one of us to load the busses for the
trip to Los Altos. But I had the privilege to take a joy- ride with
Pastor Cesear on the back of his motorcycle!
We finished our time in the village with some games for the little ones, and a baseball game for the older guys. Our baseball game ended quickly with a rainstorm.
When the girls returned to SCORE, many had a chance to return to Lily house to have some ladies braid their hair or give manicures before they returned home.
This day
was just a blessing to be able to give and be very flexible because of a
lot of open time to just keep building the villagers up. Please pray
for us as we head home and looking forward to seeing you all when we get
back.
Nick Rivers
After we filled the bags we took a group picture, loaded up the buses, and took off to the first village, La Yeguada.
Once we arrived we got out and waited for what seemed to be about 20 minutes until the kids came out and then went on to start a whiffle-ball game. During the game some of the adults started coming out and one man named Manuel came out and after telling him we were not going to play a big baseball game with the older guys, he joined the game and started pitching. The game lasted about hour or so; then we moved on to the small pavilion-type building where we did crafts and other ministries like the evanga-balls earlier in the week.
Once we all gathered Pastor Ceasar said a few words to the
people in the village, and then Pastor Jake thanked the people for their
hospitality in allowing us to come and witness to them. After meeting Cesar’s wife, I helped set up chairs for the group for lunch time. After lunch we all went into the church where Jake thanked the people of the church for allowing us to be with them this week.
We had testimonies from Ashley, Greg, Taylor, Wyatt and Renee. Zaida, Cesar’s wife, and Nando, one of the members of his church gave their testimonies as well. After this, our food distribution was similar to the one at the last village. We gave out 25 bags of food, one for every family in the village, and each family had two teens pray for them as they handed out their bag of food.
After that, we had Josh and Marissa give their testimonies and when they had finished Ceasar started calling off the names of the people to come and take food bags. Now in this village we gave 50 bags away and the way it was done is a person from our group would take the bags and hand them to the people called and pray with that person before they left.
At the end of this process we began playing with the kids again. While this was happening Manuel came to a few of us and had us all sign his baseball cap and told us because of the impact we had there that we had strengthened his faith and we later found he had been saved for only a month.
Then it was time for all but one of us to load the busses for the
trip to Los Altos. But I had the privilege to take a joy- ride with
Pastor Cesear on the back of his motorcycle!We finished our time in the village with some games for the little ones, and a baseball game for the older guys. Our baseball game ended quickly with a rainstorm.
When the girls returned to SCORE, many had a chance to return to Lily house to have some ladies braid their hair or give manicures before they returned home.
Nick Rivers
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