Greetings from Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic!
We made it to the DR yesterday afternoon. We spent some time getting settled in at the SCORE International complex for the week, and got to visit the beach for a little bit. The beaches are beautiful here! We ate a yummy dinner and then headed to the Lilly House for a sweet treat. Most of us went to bed early last night because of the long travel day we had. Today, we had the opportunity to visit a church service at one of the churches we will be setting up clinic at this week. Its name is El Peñon. It was a beautiful service. It was spoken in Spanish, but we had a translator translate the message for us. The pastor, Maximo, taught about how the joy of the Lord is our strength. We got to worship with the congregation; we sang a song in English for them, and they sang multiple songs for us in Spanish. They even sang a popular American worship song for us, “What a Beautiful Name it Is”. It was such a neat opportunity to be worshiping together with our brothers and sisters in Christ. The worship was a beautiful picture of what it will be like in Heaven one day when we are all worshiping God together. After the service was over, we shook hands with the people at the church and got to meet them. I am excited to be heading back to the church tomorrow to start our ministry. We headed back to SCORE for lunch, and then we got ourselves organized for our week in ministry. We sorted medicines and other healthcare supplies so that we will be ready to serve the people of the DR. It was then dinner time. After dinner, we had a large group meeting filled with a time of worship and reflecting on our first day. Then, we broke up into our small groups and had discussions about our devotional for the day (1 Timothy 6:6-10). It was a great first day of our trip. God is good! Please be praying for us as we start our ministry tomorrow and serve the church of El Peñon.
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