We finally arrived Tuesday afternoon and have now helped with two VBS’s. There are a lot of children, and it is quite interesting trying to talk to them with my limited Spanish. This morning we helped move a bunch of debris and have started building (with help from some Hatian men) a small wall that [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 30, 2008
Layovers
Before leaving Akron for their departure flight out of the Pittsburgh airport in the wee hours on Monday morning, someone in the Dominic Republic mission team called the airport to confirm their flight once again only to find that it had had been cancelled due to lack of occupants (all of the airline companies are [...]
July 30, 2008
Please Pray for Us
Stephen, Heather, Calvin and Nathan have each written short blog entries about the mission trip that they will be participating in with our church family on July 28th through August 5th. If you like to read more specific trip details and prayer requests, I encourage you to scroll down to Stephen’s July 3rd blog entry [...]
July 27, 2008
Heather’s Departing Highlights
I came across this Bible verse the other day, and it has become my desire for our trip. We leave in a fewhours, so I don’t have time to write more now. Lord willing, I will be able to give an update of sorts when we return.
“For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but [...]
July 27, 2008
Stephen’s Departing Statements
After I finished the missions course I took this Spring, I began to read through the second half of the book of Isaiah. As I read, I began to view my reading more and more as preparation for our upcoming mission trip to Santo Domingo. Just a few weeks ago, I came to Isaiah 58. [...]
July 26, 2008
Calvin’s Departing Comments
In my personal Bible-study times, I have been reading through a commentary on the gospel according to Matthew. Just the other day I came to Matthew 17, wherein Jesus first heals a demon-possessed child and then later pays the temple tax. Jerry Bridges notes that at first glance the healing of the demon possessed boy [...]
July 26, 2008
Nathan’s Departing Notes
The apostle Peter shows us some very important things in his second New Testament epistle; He says:
“…make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities [...]
July 26, 2008
Dragon’s Domain
Here is a riddle for you to work on while I am away in the Dominican Republic (see post below).
What is a group of dragons called?
Exampali gratius: a herd of cows, a flock of birds, a gaggle of geese, a rookery of penguins, a swarm of flies, a pack of wolves, a school of [...]
July 23, 2008
When God Looks at Me
When God looks at me, he sees a sinner and he sees a saint; he sees an old self and he sees a new self, he sees a pile of dry bones and he sees a Spirit-filled soldier, he sees a wicked and slothful servant and he sees a faithful and wise servant.
When God [...]
July 21, 2008
How Sweet and Aweful is the Place
For the last couple of weeks, during the Sunday school hour at our church , one of the men in the congregation has been teaching our whole assembly how to sing in four-part harmony. While I was a bit skeptical at first, it has been really fun, and we have learned a lot. By the [...]
July 17, 2008
Watson on Loving and Loathing
“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.”
-Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance
July 3, 2008
Destinación República Dominicana
If the Lord wills and so favors, in less than one month the four young people you see above will be found nowhere else but on a little island in the Caribbean, in the city of Santo Domingo. The four of us (right to left: Calvin, Nathan, Heather, and Stephen) are going on our first [...]
