Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic

Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible!

These 5 are from Life Discovery Church and 2 more met us in the DR.

Me, Jack, Di, Carolyne, Jovannah

Doesn’t matter how far God takes me, I will always love the streets. Showing up in the ghetto with the gospel, the power of God unto salvation will always excite me.

When we first encountered these guys I said, “Jack you wanna try to lead the conversation bro?” He responded, “no I’m good.” So I started the conversation and within a minute Jack leans into me and says, “I got this one.” So I let him take over and between him and the others in the group the kid in the teal hat was backslidden and knew it but with the word of God mixed with testimonies he realized he needed to come back to Jesus. Hallelujah

The guy to the right is Gibran. He can from Mexico and was such a blessing. I met Gibran in Peru and we have built a bond. Him and I met this man who was a friend of a local pastor but never had the gospel preached to him. This totally blew me away. I’m not sure why, this is a story that I sadly hear very often, even in America. I don’t know if people just assume that people know everything about Jesus and what is available. This man was easily won for the Kingdom, he was so open, he just didn’t know what Christ did for him.

We did some school ministry and it was funny when some kids starting asking for prayer and they start shaking and crying and after a few kids got touched by God the others began to back away in fear. It was so funny. If only they understood what they are missing out on by encountering the power of God.

This was Jack’s first missions trip. Jack was willing to preach in the streets for his first time ever. The pastor said no one is going to come out of their houses but they will hear you if you want to preach. As soon as Jack began to share people started coming out of their houses and about 15 people with chairs are sitting there after 5 minutes of preaching. It was amazing.  This trip for me was really about getting people involved more. I love to preach and share but I want others to get the same enjoyment of stepping out of their comfort and sharing the glorious gospel and know what it feels like to alter someone’s destiny by and encounter with them.

Jack was so excited about what was happening that after 3-4 days he was planning to come back.

Life Discovery Church did a Christmas gift give away in the DR with a local pastor and Jovannah was helping hand out the gifts. We were able to give a gift to every child that takes part in the weekly Bible study events that the local pastor Vladimir  holds. I believe we handed out 130 book bags filled with gifts. It was great to see the kids smile.

Vern (Vern is a friend that graduated from the same evangelism school that I did in Orlando) and Gibran sharing the Gospel. We had a big outreach in this community and had almost 300 people register for the event. It rained a lot at the beginning which stopped some from attending but we just moved the event to the inside and we preached the gospel and we had 25 first time decisions and another 30 recommitments to follow Jesus. What a glorious day for the Kingdom.

This picture doesn’t really do it justice but there isn’t a way to capture everyone. This is another one of our big outreaches we had around 1300 people attended and we saw over 100 decisions for Jesus. It was truly amazing! God is doing som much everywhere we go. I’m so thankful for everyone who sows into what we are doing.

We are still looking for monthly support.

The people we go to are far too poor to support our work that’s why we ask our friends and family in America to get involved.

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