After more than a month in the hospital, Doña Rosa is finally at home. She has such a positive attitude. Her first night home she was playing with her grandchildren, showing them her empty pant leg where they had amputated her leg, making a joke out of it! her attitude is a relief to her loved ones.
Continue to pray for her and her family as they make the necesary adjustments. I am hopeful she can start some exercises to get her strength back.
I want to ask you to pray for an opportunity this summer. Cool Spring is here from July 5-17 and I am hopeful to have a summer missionary come in right after they leave to continue to work toward discipling the teenagers of our communities.
He is a dynamic young (bi-lingual) man from the New England area. I believe he would be a wonderful assest to our work in following up with the young people in our communities. He would be working with our young people, following up on the evangelism and discipleship activities of Cool Spring. Sometimes there is a let down after a large group is here and I would love to be able to follow their work with some one-on-one efforts. He is very energetic and would be a great help in developing a discipleship ministry around the basketball court we are building in the Hole. (I am hopeful that we may be able to build one in Los Santos too!).
He is trying to raise his support to come- he needs his airfare which is the most costly part of the plan and I have told him I will cover his expenses here in Santiago. If anyone feels led to help us fund him for these two weeks (last two weeks of July) please send me an email @ davidson@drmission.com. I believe he is a worthy investment and his ministry here will pay eternal rewards!
I finally was able to meet with the engineer from the City Recreation Department. He gave us the go ahead on the area we have and gave us some ideas for construction. I was so thankful for his comments. All of us forgot the measuring tape (and I have about 4!) so as soon as we get back to measure the area, he will help us with the list of materials needed. It looks like this afternoon the young people in the Hole will begin clearing the land and digging out the foundation and we will get underway tomorrow!
Last night we met with our new folks in Navarette. The community is actually called “El Golfo” de Ponton, Navarette. I am beginning a discipleship process with Mercedes who is our main contact there. She is a Christian and seems to have a good understanding of the Chrsitians. We are going to go through a discipleship book written by one of our Dominican pastors to help identify Baptist doctrine and be sure we are well grounded with basic faith principles from the Bible.
Yesterday afternoon a group from Villa de Yaque and I went to “Sebo de Janico” (too difficult to actually explain how it is pronounced but it was a beautiful area and a great ride in the country!). We met with one of the owners of a house in Villa de Yaque to ask permission to use her house for our church meetings. She agreed to let us do so in exchange for keeping the grounds cleaned. We are thrilled. I think there is a great chance we could actually be able to buy the house for about $900. Victor and I are going to investigate this with the govenerment agency in charge of this project first. Please be in prayer for this possibility. For now we are thrilled at having the house to call our “home!”
