Typically our morning starts with an hour devotion led by a team member. This time is meant to set our hearts in the right place for the coming hours. As we have a number of new members this year who have asked and it's been some time since he's told it to us, Nathaniel gave his personal testimony. It's a lengthy but incredible story of God ordained circumstances of a poor Dominican teenager who became a New York City drug dealer and his transformation to the disciple of Jesus he is today.
As there is a fraternity among police officers, our retired Madison cops wanted to visit the police station. Here we got to know the Chief of Police in Azua. We spent some time in the Word with him and asked questions0 and left Bibles. He leads 150 men and women that police an area of over a million people! He is currently short 110 officers. Their only communication is with cell phones and they have 3 trucks (they use motorcycles). The pay is $140/month; imagine.
On the way to the village of LaVeritas we stopped to inspect the progress of a church construction we funded. At the village the team played with the children, passed out tracts, and left Bibles and food. We also visited with a favorite lady of ours who we blessed a few years ago with a new house.
Later that afternoon the ladies and Dan visited a women's prison in the city of Bani which is about 45 minutes away. It was an emotionally powerful time as testimony and messages were shared.
Meanwhile, the guys (and Kim) were at the Mission Center. Kim played with and taught the children as the guys picked rocks and garbage from the large yard and later constructed a new bano (toilet) at a nearby house with help from Pastor Anderson and El Hefe.
The Jesus Film was shown in a baseball field near a church the team helped build 3 years ago. At least 150 (mostly kids) were in attendance.
Another late night after our debrief (11pm) but a rewarding day. The combination of heat, emotional fatigue, physical fatigue, long days, and strange food is no match for the satisfaction in preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Azua.
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