God blessed us this morning with a beautiful sunrise after a long day and evening with rain. Where we are - power supply is heavily affected and impacted based on the rain. In addition, the roads leading up to Kimberley and Carlos’ house as well. Our day began with some hearty pancakes and we were fueled up to go to! Some of us participated in the morning exercise class at 9:00am, while the others began with working on the conventional oven and shelves.
After a hard morning of working together, we had a quick lunch break before heading back to the Crucero Community Center. Now something that has been incredibly helpful is that we are staying strategically in Crucero so we have been able to walk back and forth from our villa.
Now let me pause there… 18months ago, after our previous missions trip here to the Dominican Republic, we had a surplus in offering that came in. So with much prayer and endorsement from Council, we designated that surplus to go into medical supplies. That offering then transformed into the seed money to launch a monthly health clinic hosted by Students International and Dr. Fernando, one of the pastors of La Vid Church. Now something that was incredibly powerful, was that Dr. Fernando began the clinic with a time of worship and shared God’s Word! How powerful is that? You come in to get a medical check-up, but you also get worship and God’s Word?! What a sight it was to visibly see our church’s offering come to fruition! Glory to God!
As the health clinic continued in the afternoon, the rest of our team was able to continue with work on the conventional oven for the Bakery Project that Kimberley is hoping to launch. And to be honest with you… many of us had our doubts when we first arrived to see how the conventional oven was… but boy do I have to you- God is faithful! It is coming together very quickly! Our team is working incredibly hard!
At 4:00pm, at the regular Mother’s Club that occurs here in Crucero, Elisa was able to reach a Health Seminar and teach about Women’s Health. Afterwards, we were able to attend the English Class that Kim teaches to support.
Afterwards, we were able to head back to the villa where are are staying again to be blessed by Josie’s cooking, Kim’s sister-in-law.
As we wrapped up our day and shared our “Jesus Moments,” we were once again blown away with how much our team has been accomplishing already this week. This is all thanks to the prayers of our church families at Flatlands Reformed Church and Christ Community Church. Indeed, “How Great Thou Art!”
