Our second day in the Dominican Republic has proven to be just as great as our first. Our exhausted team enjoyed sleeping in this morning (some later than others) and have had a leisure day of rest, relaxation and hanging out. Several of the girls accompanied their Dominican host girls to the salon in the morning where they got their nails done and had their hair washed, dried and straightened Dominican style. Quite a few of members of the group spent the afternoon at a rec center playing volleyball, soccer, basketball and swimming. In the evening, several of the students went to the mall, a few got together to watch a movie, a couple of them even had fun babysitting with their Dominican host. It was a great day of getting to know our new Dominican friends and some of the things that are a regular part of their culture. It’s always surprising and yet cool at the same time for our students to realize how “normal” and “just like them” the Dominican teenagers are and how much they enjoy and have in common.
As for tomorrow, it will be another good, but busy, day. Most of the team will attend church at Iglesia Biblica del Senor Jesucristo. A handful of the team will attend a smaller church where the pastor is the father of the home where Lindsay and Emily are staying. After church, we will have lunch in our host homes, repack our suitcases, get some rest and then meet at the church in the late afternoon. Both the Dayton and Logos teams will take a bus two hours north to the city of Jarabacoa…which is the place where we will be staying and ministering for the next week. Tomorrow will be a fun day as we head to Jarabacoa because it’s there that we will get to meet the precious children who live at the orphanage! We are really looking forward to that…for those children are the reason why we have worked so hard over the past couple of months and the reason we are here!
Thank you for your prayers for us. We look forward to seeing what God has planned for us…
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