Mission trip Dominican Republic 2017

Period

March 2017

Reports

15 reports

Destination

Dominican Republic

All reports

1. Report 1 2 March 2017 · 1 min read Progress update. Two more weeks and the time will have come: the five of us are going to the Dominican Republic. Preparations there and here are in full swing. In the Dominican Republic the… Read →
2. Report 2 16 March 2017 · 1 min read The first days. The programme for the first days is already quite full. We will arrive around 9 pm on Friday evening and go straight to where we are staying. On Saturday we will go to the city centre… Read →
3. Report 3 20 March 2017 · 2 min read First encounters. We had a very good journey. Our things and suitcases were all checked in fine and arrived with us. On board we had a lovely encounter with a Nigerian man who… Read →
4. Report 4 21 March 2017 · 3 min read Prison One more testimony: in the church where we were on the first evening, backup batteries and equipment for a keyboard had been stolen the night before. Marien prophesied that the things… Read →
5. Report 5 22 March 2017 · 2 min read Monday San Juan The third morning. We wake up in yet another world, a much quieter setting than Santo Domingo. We were woken early by the rooster on our grounds, and otherwise by the sheep… Read →
6. Report 6 23 March 2017 · 3 min read Tuesday: the first children's church Nobody slept well last night. On the one hand we are filled to the brim with all the impressions, the giving, the climate, the kind and beautiful people, but we are also being pulled at by the… Read →
7. Report 7 24 March 2017 · 4 min read Dios te bendiga! Wednesday. With all the impressions and the full programme, you almost lose track of what day it is. Our second visit to a prison. You could tell we were not… Read →
8. Report 8 25 March 2017 · 3 min read A beautiful encounter On Thursday morning we set off towards the border with Haiti. We had a meeting there with Apostle Eli and his team. During his previous visit to the… Read →
9. Report 9 25 March 2017 · 2 min read A party in heaven One more short addition.... We heard later that the day after we had been in the 'friendly' prison, there had been a riot among the prisoners! Four men… Read →
10. Report 10 27 March 2017 · 2 min read Through the tunnel of fire... On Saturday morning we were woken again by the menagerie that comes with where we are staying. The rooster crowed himself completely hoarse to wake us, because we had… Read →
11. Report 11 28 March 2017 · 1 min read Saying goodbye to the team Sunday. After a long journey from San Juan to Santo Domingo we met Hipolito, who took us to church. The people are very exuberant and the music is so loud that Marien constantly… Read →
12. Report 12 29 March 2017 · 1 min read Founding the Servir foundation A whole day of waiting at a government agency, from one counter to the next, to set up a foundation for the growing work in the Dominican Republic. Then back… Read →
13. Report 13 29 March 2017 · 1 min read Bibles for the prisoners Wednesday. Still a lot to arrange before we go to the capital for the last time. We stopped by the prison to bring more Bibles, which had been asked for… Read →
14. Report 14 30 March 2017 · 1 min read Evangelism Pedro travels for hours on his moped through the mountains to evangelise, preach and visit new believers. He has fitted a converter to his moped so that it can serve as… Read →
15. Report 15 31 March 2017 · 1 min read Santo Domingo The meeting was in a working-class neighbourhood on the hills of Santo Domingo. Getting there was quite an experience. Winding, narrow mountain paths you could only… Read →