Day 45 - 49: Quest Church

This team has been memorable. This group of twenty two happy souls ready to serve arrived in the Dominican Republic last Saturday. There was not a moment throughout this week where they were hesitant to start the work that needed to be done or going to play with the kids.

This group of people ranging from the age of 10 to over 50 all did their part to make a difference in the San Pablo community. This group spent time hosting 3 different VBS sessions in the afternoons as they spent the mornings working on the new preschool/ kindergarten school that has been steadily and quickly being built in just the time I have been here. Below are some pictures of them and the work they had done throughout this week, including sanding the classroom walls for primer, painting paint primer in the rooms and outside of the school and moving dirt piles and trash off the construction site. 

Quest Church felt the Lord call them to raise the money to have a cistern be put in for the school in San Pablo since the only water supply is unreliable water coming in only when it is pumped maybe once or twice a week into two barrels. Posted below is a photo (from left to right) of Tim (this week's team leader,) Brian and Ken (Quest Church's pastor) taking the first shovels to the ground where they would be digging the cistern. 

This team has been great to work with as they were full of smiles and ready to do whatever deemed necessary for this week. Here are some pictures of them below playing with the kids of San Pablo, hard at work in the nutrition center as well as a video of them singing "Father Abraham" at the third VBS session.

 

We went to The Food Truck Neighborhood last night and enjoyed Pito's Fritos churros. Posted below is a photo of the entire neighborhood with Pito's Fritos behind me and a photo of me and two of the team members, Josh (left) and Mike (right) as we enjoyed our churros.

 

The team leaves on Saturday and I am very thankful to have met some of these women and men of God and spend my last week with them before I make my journey home. Tomorrow is their beach day so I will be hanging back here in Santiago with Selina, the wife of one of the team leaders (Hugo) of Project Manana. 

I cannot wait to share photos with you Saturday of the staff I have met and spent my summer with. I will miss all of them dearly as they have all touched my life in one way or another. I only hope it is part of God's will for me to come again to the Dominican Republic.