Epilogue 2016

By now the team has adjusted to "normal life" back at home. It was only 8 days that we were away but as the experience is the combination of physical, mental, and spiritual the effects are more pronounced than say your typical week-long vacation. This is most evident in team members that have not been on this journey before.

As any member will tell you, this trip has the power to change a person. We go to the DR for one primary purpose: to preach the salvation of Jesus. But along the way we also get preached to. We go to bless but we also get blessed. It's one of the benefits that most do not realize. With that said, however, we must keep the stories, faces, sights, sounds, and smells of our experience at our core. It does the Spirit no good to experience it and then forget. Our memories should shape our future. Our boldness for Jesus should not remain the the DR.

The spiritual highlights of the trip included:
- 6 separate showings of the Jesus Film with a message and worship to follow
- witnessing to the prisoners
- witnessing to hundreds of individuals wherever we went
- many shared testimonies and personal prayers
- passing out approximately 1200 individual gospel tracts
- disabled ministry
- blind ministry

The major financial expenditures of this trip included:
- 700 Bibles
- 1500 children's Bible story books
- 625# rice, 200# beans and 250 bottles of oil packaged into 250 individual family bags
- 3 concrete floors for churches
- 2 roofs for churches
- 1 well cistern
- 45 wheelchairs, a number of walkers and canes
- $5000 to support 2 separate year-round childrens feeding programs
- 200 bibles, 6 mattresses and pillows sent to Haiti

The work is great and the workers few but we do what we can with what we've been blessed with. The entire team would like to thank our supporters for their prayers and generous financial contributions. Without you our ministry would not be as effective as it is but because of you we have and will continue to make a difference in the DR in the name of Jesus.