Summary of the week from Mark Kemp

Whether you realize it or not, you were a part of the Dominican mission trip in February. Before the trip began, you commissioned the DR team to spread God's love in an unfamiliar place. Your prayers helped sustain the 22 adults who left Greenville at 5:30 a.m. on February 16. Funds designated from the Witness and Service budget made it possible for the group to pour 13 cement floors in Batey 7, where most of the houses have dirt foundations. Buildings begun in 2012 were completed with electrical wiring, doors, and windows thanks to your faithfulness through the years.

Your giving supports Foundation for Peace, our medical partner that pre-screened patients so that Westminster doctors could see 400 people in five days and treat them with medicines you helped purchase. You made it possible for five young men to realize their vision of a community garden that will not only provide medical herbs and food but will unite the community and give those men a sense of worth and accomplishment. Your involvement in the Greenville Community through the Latino Ministry opened the door for more than 274 Dominicans to receive vision screenings and new glasses that will help them read their Bibles and to be less dependent on others.

This annual mission trip is not simply the efforts of those who are on the plane from Atlanta to Santo Domingo. Thanks to you, it is the expression of God's love, sent from our congregation in Greenville, to God's people the bateys of Barahona. When next February comes around, how will you be involved?

 

Mark Kemp - Director of Music and Leader of 2013 Dominican Republic Adult Mission Trip