Home Again

Our team left the Dominican Republic in several shifts on Saturday. We have all made it home except Bobby and Jan who remained a few extra days for some much needed R&R.

There are still many stories yet untold, so I am hopeful that my teammates will email me some of their personal stories along with some of their pictures.  When they do I will post them here.

I have a number of pictures that I still intend to upload here, so please continue to check back.

I want to thank everyone for your prayers and support for this trip. Please continue to pray for the many people who prayed to receive Christ that their faith would grow. Pray for those who heard the gospel but were not ready — seeds were sown; pray that God would continue to water and fertilize those seeds. Since none of us knows how much time we have available to us, pray that they would not wait until too late. ~esm

Oh, a shower has never felt so good before.  Today was the hottest day at clinic so far!  The day started out with such a downpour that we prayed for the weather to change.  It did!  Just before we were about to pack up the truck and buses, the sun came out.  The one room [...]

Sarah and Finn, we are missing you and wish you could have gone on this trip.  Our prayers are continuing to go up for your healing! Lindsay and Travis, things were just not the same without you today.  Lisa, have a safe trip home tomorrow. Nancy L., thank you for the gift of our ice [...]

It isn’t possible to fit as many stories into this blog as have been happening.  I am hoping that my teammates will add stories when they again have access to computers and will correct my errors.  Please forgive me if we have not mentioned your loved one yet.  He or she will have similar stories [...]

Today I’ll begin with a story that actually began yesterday. Yesterday in the children’s ministry Travis and Lisa had been playing with the children all morning and did gospel presentation in the afternoon.  Travis noticed one girl, Rosie, who was eager to answer all the questions they were asking the group, but he noticed that [...]

You’ve probably been wondering what a normal day is like for our team.  Most of us wake up around 6 am, unless your Josh, James, or Joe who get up at 5:30 am in order to go work out at the beach before our morning worship time at 6:30 am.  Breakfast is at 7 am.  [...]

We have a good internet connection tonight, so I have posted a few pictures among the earlier blogs.  So even if you’ve read them before, you might want to go back and look at some of the pictures.  Here’s a couple, we just had to put up.  This is a sea urchin…   this is [...]

Today was the first time in a long time that Sunday was an actual day of rest for me and the team. I think God used today to show me how one should really use the Sabbath.  We started off the morning by loading up and heading to Pastor Aubie’s church. I’m already pumped about [...]

Today we had a much needed break after working five hard days at the clinic. Despite rumors of a tropical storm, we had the most beautiful day we have had since we got to the Dominican, as evidenced by all of our sunburns. Our options for spending the day in the sun were taking a [...]

Hola! As I write this blog tonight, I am both excited and somewhat saddened. Excited to tell you about our day and saddened that this will be my last blog because I head home tomorrow. It has been an honor to share with each of you a little snippet of our days here in the [...]