Dominican Trip

For the past several weeks, as many of you may know, I have been frantically scurrying around preparing for an upcoming missions trip to the Dominican Republic.  Well, finally the day has arrived!!!!  Tonight, at around 10PM, a group of 18 youth and 7 adults from my church, including my mother and myself, will be leaving on a plane for Monte Plata, in the Dominican Republic.  

Rebekah Holbrook, the sister of our high school pastor, has been a missionary with Kids Alive in Monte Plata for the past two years, so we'll be working with her over the next week.  She is heavily involved not only with an orphanage which she runs, but also the school and church in the town, so we'll be doing a lot of work with all three: orphanage, school, and church.  While there, we have planned...one day VBS program, Speechless presentation (in Spanish), door-to-door outreach, kids/youth outreach, work projects, Date Nights for house parents in the orphanage, church involvement, school involvement, and more.  So as you can see, it will be a extremely busy week.

I would greatly appreciate your prayers as we prepare to serve the Lord through loving others.  If you would pray that...

-our team would draw closer together and show that we are Christians by our love for each other

-the flights would go smoothly and no luggage would be lost (we're bringing 15 extra suitcases with food and props/costumes)

-the Lord would give us the strength to fight the spiritual darkness

-each of us would grow spiritually

-that we would share the love of Christ with others by developing relationships with them

I will be sure to give an update (complete with pictures!!!) when I return home.  While I am gone, though, you can check out our group blog www.dominicanupdates.blogspot.com as well as Rebekah's blog www.web.mac.com/tiarivka/Site/Blog/blog.html 

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support!

Under the mercy,

Elizabeth