Wednesday in the D.R.

The Peace of Christ be with you!

Today, other than being Bob King´s 55th birthday, has been a slow day. Happy 55th Birthday Bob King!!!! (Jesse wanted to make sure I mentioned it was Bob King´s 55th birthday. I think she wants the whole congregation to know her dad is 55. So happy 55th Bithday Bob! Hope it was a good one!)

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Today was a slow day. It rained heavy most of the night and when we woke up it was still raining so we could not work at the site. For breakfast we had soup, which was actually quite nice on a rainy morning. Since we couldn´t work and the road to the Batas was flooded, we went to Santo Damingo to go shopping. We mostly just walked around, a few people got a few items. It was mostly touristy stuff.

While in Santo Damingo we stopped at what the Locals call ¨The Light House.¨It is a monument to Christopher Columbus. There is a large Moseleum and his bones are there in a box. Apparently once a year the box is opened so anyone who wants to can come and look at Christopher Columbus. I suppose that´s just so all the locals can say they have met Chris. There was also a museum with things in it from all over the world. It was not entirely clear what some of the stuff had to do with Christopher COlumbus, but it was neat to look at anyway.

Before we headed back to Yuguate, we stopped at a large grocery store. At which point your popcorn addicted pastor went in pursuit of some popcorn and olive oil. I am happy to report said pastor did in fact find said items with relative ease so tonight we all enjoyed a tasty treat and the Dominicans all got a good laugh at the crazy pastor who wanted to make popcorn on the stove!

We headed home from Santo Damingo and had lunch. Then many people took a nap. We had several hours to just relax and hang out. Terri spent awhile coloring with some of the kids at the house. After dinner we all loaded up and went to teach Bible school to the kids, or so we thought. We got there and there were a lot of adults too. It took us a little while to get it sorted out. In the end we just ended up teaching the kids, but really I think they had intended for us to teach the adults too. We tried to tell them we didn´t mind teaching the adults too, but that message literally got lost in translation. Oh well, someone else ended up teaching the adults, so every one learned and everyone had a good time.

After Bible school we came home and had popcorn! yum! Now we are winding down for the evening. We are wondering how the worksite will look tomorrow. We are hoping all the dirt piles did not fall back into the holes with the rain. We are also hoping that we do not have 12 swimming pools when we get to the worksite tomorrow.

We can tell your prayers have been with us. It is awesome to see the way the Dominicans intergrate the Bible school with their building project. As we work hand in hand to build the foundation of the building, we also work hand in hand to make firm the foundation of the church. There is truly an understanding that our spiritual foundations are just as important as a building´s foundation. And let me tell you, this church is indeed built on Christ our Rock! When the winds blow, and the hurricanes of life come through, this church will be just as firm as it is today! Christ has indeed made for us a firm foundation! And each of you is a part of that. Each of you have helped with your prayers, with your gifts, with your encouragement. You may not be physically present with us, but you are here with us in spirit. And it is the Holy Spirit that carries us through.

God´s peace be with you.

Blessings,
Jen and team