Today, we finally had the whole group together and were ready to be a light to all the Dominicans! Although the rest of the group arrived yesterday, it was nice to have everyone together today as we shared the gospel of our wonderful Lord. As the day started off we headed for a house called Emmanuel House. This house, unlike many other houses here, was a school to 105 Dominican children ages 5-12. Unfortunately, all of these children were on a week of “break” because the teachers were off training on how to equip their students with more of Jesus in a school setting. Although we were a little sad at first, we were more than happy to find that there were other needs that needed to be tended to. We broke off into groups of 10 and were sent off to do various things and serve various people. Every group ended up going out into the homes of the people around there as well as aiding in painting the outside of the school. While in the homes of the Dominicans, students saw things from a grandmother giving her life to Jesus to sick children being taken to the local clinic to get medicine. All of these things impacted each student greatly and I’m sure they can’t wait to tell you about their personal experience involved in each of these things. Upon returning from Emmanuel house this afternoon, the students had a few minutes to eat lunch and cool off in the pool to rejuvenate for the afternoon events.
This afternoon we went to a center called Compassion. This center housed and schooled about 100 students from 7-15. Here, we were able to sing, do our famous “Daniel and Goliath” skit (with Mitchell Warner as King and Molly Hair as Daniel) as well as hear Chandler Sharpe’s testimony. After we were able to hear the gospel from one of the missionaries who attended this center with us named Kiko. The students really enjoyed getting to see the impact they made on these children’s lives. After hearing all of these things, the Dominican children began playing games and having fun with all of us. We did things from make bracelets, have pull up bar competitions, paint nails and even broke out into a paint fight. (Don’t worry, the painting fights were merely sweet Dominicans painting our faces with as much paint as possible). After being there for about 2 hours we headed home to Score.
We just returned from our first group Score night where everyone staying at Score during this time joined together in worship and fellowship to hear about how truly great our Lord is. The students have begun to wind down and are enjoying some friendly-competition with various games.
Hoping all is well with you all in the States and will be sending another update tomorrow!
Morgan Kirk
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