Having just left the Dominican Republic last week, a piece of my heart is still there. Join me in praying for those in tropical storm Chantal’s path and that it will not  organize into a hurricane. Currently, the expected winds at landfall are 70 mph with landfall sometime Wednesday.  Continue reading

One more blog before I go… Today has been pretty relaxing thus far. Everything is packed, and the bus will be here within the hour. We’re hoping to get on our flight home a bit more quickly than last year when we had about an hour just standing in line. Our last team devotional was… Continue reading

After our devotional this morning, we loaded up and headed to the school for the final time this trip. After a day of rest it was probably a little harder getting into the swing of things, but we did. After carrying the bags of concrete mix up to the second floor – and, yes, I… Continue reading

This will be short but not because the day was less interesting. I need to start these things earlier. Today we got to sleep later than normal and most of us took full advantage of it. Devotional and breakfast were an hour later. We kind of did things in reverse order – we went to… Continue reading

Today was pretty hot. After having clouds blocking the sun most of the week, we had full sunshine today. It was hot and the work was hard – more bending and tying rebar and more mixing and pouring cement into the forms. People pay good money to work out that hard! This is the first… Continue reading

Today has been a really good day. We made a lot of progress on the school today. We were able to pour concrete into the form on the top of two rooms and framed another room. Most of us had a pretty heavy coating of concrete from head to toe by day’s end. We also… Continue reading

After a good breakfast (repeat of Wednesday’s menu), we gathered to pray for both our team and the one working in Bani. We then headed to the school to keep the good work going. Today’s activities including cleaning up scraps of block that have been chipped away, digging a trench to lay a water line,… Continue reading

First of all, I want to say “thank you” to all those who have been praying for the team. I cannot tell you just how much they mean to us. There was a sense of God’s presence with us the whole day. As far as the day went, I guess I should start by saying… Continue reading

It’s warm and humid here in the DR … familiar weather for this crew from Georgia. Our trip was uneventful, which was an answer to prayer. It’s was Kayla’s first flight, but she handled it like a trooper. I even caught her peeking out the window a time or two. John Beardon (Bearden Ministries) met… Continue reading

All 14 of our Dominican Republic mission team members are together at the hotel. We’ve eaten, organized, tagged our bags, made our team assignments, and most importantly prayed. Early tomorrow morning (after what we hope is a good night’s sleep) we’ll hop on the bus for the airport to head out on Delta flight 681… Continue reading