We got the internet to work...so here's the full version of my blog from last night...off to work we go!
Greetings from Los Alcarrizos in the beautiful island of the Dominican Republic!
We arrived safely at our ministry site and home for the next week this afternoon after a smooth and uneventful plane ride...
It is warm and windy night here...we had a chance to take a quick tour around the campus here earlier and enjoyed our first home cooked Dominican meal...we eat amazing food prepared by some fabulous Dominican cooks...
It is always a joy to come back to this place for me...and I am thrilled to have a wonderful team of students and coaches here who are all anxious to serve and be part of what God is doing here in this part of the world...
As we walked around the Christian school facility here where over 1100 students receive the education they long for, it was so fun to see how God continues to build and grow the work here...I see the gym where there are now 3 floors of space for exercise and outreach where we laid the initial blocks on a bottom level; I see the kitchen which will soon feed 400 children breakfast before they attend classes where we help dig a hole in the dirt; and I see the third floor of classrooms now filled with more students where we poured cement into footings...what a privilege it is for the athletic community from CU to be part of this long term transformational work in this place where students are meeting Jesus and preparing to change the lives of their peers in the future of this nation...
One of the great blessings of a trip like this one is that we get to see God at work and join Him in Kingdom activity...we just finished a debrief and prayer time where many of the students here shared that they are so excited to see how God's Spirit will teach and use them as we work here and live life differently as a result of our experiences...even coming down here we brought several hundred shoes collected for the children of this community by a girl in Virginia who we have never met, but who God gave a vision to while she was here in this place...
We are very tired after an early travel morning and a long day...but we are excited tomorrow to go to work and help lay a cement floor for a place where many future girls will be able to exercise and meet one another and even be introduced to Jesus in the days and years to come...it will be a full and meaningful Saturday for us!
We are looking forward to hosting soccer clinics, playing a match or two, building relationships with children here, sharing our faith stories, and seeking God together in the days to follow...
Thanks so much for your prayers and your support of this trip...we can't wait to see what God is going to do in and through us as we serve Him and get to know His people in this culture in the week ahead...
We are off to bed as we will get an early start on the work side...everyone sends their love and hellos back home!!
For all the DR team folks,
CHIP
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