- 3 year olds walking far distances to school and carrying buckets of water on their heads?
- Using that water from ponds or rivers to bathe, wash clothes, and cook?
- Drying your clothes on bushes, cactus trees, and piles of cement?
- Cooking and doing dishes in bowls outside?
- Always having to cover your food with little bird cages to protect it from flies?
- No electricity, no water, no sewage, going to sleep at 7:30 because there's nothing to do?
- Taking bucket baths with rain water?
- Playing basketball on a hoop made out of a bicycle wheel, a fence, and a cardboard box?
- Using buckets to empty out the water from your house after storms and flooding?
- Eating a lot of carbs daily such as spaghetti and rice because it is filling?
- Using notebook paper as toilet paper because it is cheaper?
- Walking 4 hours to go to church because you are so hungry to hear the Gospel?!
This is the world I have the privilege of living in and the people that I get to minister to daily! Almost 10 million people live in the Dominican Republic in conditions like I described above. The apartment that I share with a roommate is bigger, better, and nicer than most of the Dominican houses that a whole family lives in and we think that the rent is really cheap! Wow, do we take so much for granted, including the blessing of hearing the gospel preached in comfortable facilities!
I am working with G.O. Ministries as the Coordinator of Sports and Children's Ministry. I will facilitate children's ministry events for short term mission teams by organizing and executing a plan with team leaders as to how to best meet the needs of people described above. We will impact Dominican culture through vacation Bible schools, feeding projects, building projects, medical clinics, and sports camps. G.O. Ministries partners with local Christian nationals and churches to help with the physical and spiritual needs of the people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. I covet your prayers as I follow God's call and charge to make disciples of all nations.
James 1:27 reminds us that "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
I am working with G.O. Ministries as the Coordinator of Sports and Children's Ministry. I will facilitate children's ministry events for short term mission teams by organizing and executing a plan with team leaders as to how to best meet the needs of people described above. We will impact Dominican culture through vacation Bible schools, feeding projects, building projects, medical clinics, and sports camps. G.O. Ministries partners with local Christian nationals and churches to help with the physical and spiritual needs of the people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. I covet your prayers as I follow God's call and charge to make disciples of all nations.
James 1:27 reminds us that "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
