Day 6 Friday Last night we decided to have a bit of fun to determine if the men or women would be on cleaning duty on Friday. The game: chubby bunnies. The contestants: Sydney and Glen. Sydney gave it a good shot and got 24 marshmallows in her mouth but she couldn’t outdo Glen. After [...]
Day 5 Thursday Today we got to sleep in a bit since we made so much progress yesterday. We were all dragging and some of us have sore muscles, but we worked hard and accomplished several projects. We knocked off a chain link fence from the top of the old boundary wall so it could [...]
Day 4 Wednesday What an incredibly productive (and tiring) day we had today! The last verse for our morning devotions was Romans 12:11 “Never be lazy in your work, but serve the Lord enthusiastically.” What fun to be on a team where everyone takes that to heart and enjoys working hard! Half of our team [...]
Day 3 Tuesday, February 15, 2011 How rude of me! I failed on Day 1 to introduce our team to you and tell you where we are and which organization we are working with. We are a short-term missions trip from Lawrence Free Methodist Church in Lawrence, KS, and are in the Dominican Republic doing [...]
Day 2 Monday, February 14, 2011 Today was our first day of work. We started our day with a tour around Caraballo, a community that is 25% Dominican and 75% Haitian. The Haitians moved here years ago to work in the sugar cane fields, but the sugar plant was closed six or seven years ago, [...]
Sunday morning, February 13 “Oh, what a wonderful God we have!” Romans 11:33 This was the focus of our devotions our first morning in the DR. God is awesome and amazing and we are ready to experience that as we set out to work hard, serve others, love one another and discover what God has [...]