our DR trip made the Centre Daily Times

While we were in the DR, word got to the Centre Daily Times that some seniors had opted to spend their senior week serving at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. We met with a reporter Monday afternoon, and the paper ran the story today.

So what exactly did we do?

• bought and spread 31 (I think) 5-gallon buckets (that’s 155 gallons) of teflon paint on the roofs of the orphanage, school, and church
• painted a roof for use as a team room
• touched up the paint/scuffs in the orphanage
• weeded the strawberry patch
• replaced to ropes around the ornamental flower garden
• lots of general cleaning and de-cluttering
• transported and assembled 12 bikes, repaired many others
• raised enough money for all 55 boys to visit a dentist for their first ever cleaning, xray, and fillings
• lost lots of baseball games
• played tons of relays and group games
• sang Spanish and English worship songs for about 30 minutes each day
• bought 200 pounds of chicken for the boys and girls to eat
• hugged, held hands, laughed, cried, prayed and loved

I can tell you what we did, how we spent our time and money. But I can’t begin to tell you the depth of what God did in our hearts last week. Words are not enough.

Thank you to all of you who prayed and gave so that we could spend a week with those wonderful people in the Rose of Sharon Orphanage. If you have never been on a trip like this, you need to go.

You can check out the article here. You can see Kim’s pictures here.