Dominican Republic

Date: September 19-23, 2008

I went from Mexico City to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to make arrangements for the ECC Latin America Coordinators Seminar at the end of October.

We do not have ministry there, so another ministry leader is helping me make arrangements for our group of 55 from 7 countries.

The ministry leader is the country director for VisionTrust. They have about 1600 kids in several schools, a couple of orphanges and a number of after school programs for kids. It is a much needed ministry in a country that doesn't readily provide education for the public. From the roof of one of the VisionTrust schools in the city, Pablo showed me one small school for a 5 square mile area.

While we were driving to various sites, Pablo showed me some of their ministries too. Pablo also asked me to give a mediatation and words of encouragement to his staff. I thank the Lord for giving me the words that the staff needed to hear.

The boy in the photo is not in trouble, he is the hall monitor!

Old Santo Domingo was very interesting to me, after having been in another Caribbean country with the same language, culture and archtecture. In old Santo Domingo, the buildings that are 400+ years old are well kept. It is a beautiful area.