The DR team has landed and is in route to their host ministry.    

My first experience outside of the country was walking up to a guy in the airport and asking “ Hey, how are you doing?’, and Him simply responding with a smile “ Hola, como esta?” It was like one of those HOLY MOSES this is really happening moments. You know all the time we meet people from all around and some who don’t speak any English it was odd being the one in their shoes..I do believe on my team I was the one who spoke the least Spanish and it was frustrating. At times when everyone else knew what was going on, I had no idea. In ministry some of our team...

I noticed something about my short-term trip. Basically, we planted seeds, loved kids, ran pieces of the church service, but didn’t reap the harvest or see the fruit. I wish that I could tell you that I saw people healed or come to Christ, that I saw demons cast out or bodies raised from the dead. The truth is: I didn’t see any of that, but I still saw God. He didn’t show up in the ways I expected, but I knew He was there with us. I would pray in the mornings, “God, show me something big today. Use me to heal people. Let me see people come to You.” ...

Our time in the Dominican has been different..  We have been working with a woman that is set in the ways she does her ministry and already has it some what established.  Her heart is great and she loves to share The Gospel with children..  We join her in her ministry everyday and make ourselves available to her for whatever need she has.  Basically, up to this point we have played with a lot of kids.. We love kids and we love playing with kids.  However, we would love to be ¨doing¨ the spiritual ministry side of things and so as a team we have found ourselves...

Yesterday  we traveled to the mountains, which are about a 40 minute drive from San Juan where we are staying. It was a day of fun and ministry. There was another American team there doing medical work and when we arrive we greeted them and then went down to  the local river were we got to swim for a while with some village boys, then we ate lunch can came back up to the village to do ministry.  A couple of the girls were drafted by Pastor to do medical paper work… which consisted of getting the names, and problems form the patients waiting in line. The rest of us went...

First day in San Juan. Today is the 22nd and it was our fist day in San Juan. It was a little slower start than we expected but was nice because it gave us some time to rest after our 18 hours of travel to get here. We spent the morning praying and walking around the town visiting with kids,  and after lunch we prepared a little for children’s ministry that we will be doing in a couple days. In preparation we wrote a drama/ bible story, and Christina and Morgan  spent a while translating it while the rest of us figured out games and songs. In the afternoon we went to our...