Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

   Our family is blessed and privileged to be serving God together! We are enjoying traveling the states and sharing our burden for the Dominican Republic, but we so look forward to getting to the field and ministering there. I wanted to write a little bit about the country that God has called us to, and what we plan to do when we get there.

  The Caribbean Islands are in the Caribbean Sea. There are 25 independent countries and other territories. The specific country God is leading us to is the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with the country of Haiti. We will be moving to the capitol city, Santo Domingo, in spring/summer 2019 as the Lord leads and allows. The country is 95% professed Catholic, with the other 5% being Mormon, Jehovah's Witnesses, charismatic, all kinds of other beliefs and then there are Christians. We've just recently learned about the significant Jewish population in the Dominican Republic as well! 

  Here is a great resource that I got some of my facts from, in case you are interested in more information about the country. 
                       
            https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/dr.html

        Population of the Dominican Republic         10,734,247

            Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic            3,603,210                 

 

  Our goal, with the Lord's guidance and help, is to spend our first year in the country learning the language and the culture. The people who live here speak Spanish and we will need to learn this so that we can be effective in sharing the gospel and build relationships with the people around us. We plan to enroll in language school and also have tutors to help us learn as quickly as we can.
  We are planning to jump in and help, wherever we can, while we are learning the language. We have been blessed to have advice and help and fellowship with both missionary and national brothers and sisters in Christ. And we desire to learn from them as well as encourage and be a blessing to them. 
  Our goal is to do the Lord's work in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting! Our desire is to see the people of the Dominican Republic saved, baptized, discipled, and serving the Lord! 
  

                  What a beautiful country the Lord created! 

(Left) This is the coast line in Santo Domingo. The water splashes up on the rocks as the waves come in.

(Below) This is at Los Tres Ojos (The Three Eyes), natural limestone caves with lakes fed by an underground river.

March-April 2018 Newsletter