After two months of being home in Greenville, visiting family and friends, and raising financial support again, I'm back on the mission field in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! I love my team already and have felt so welcomed by them. I'm living with two other single girls in one apartment, there are two other single guys on our team that live together in another apartment, and a family of four that are also on our team that live in another apartment. Fortunately, we all live in the same apartment complex that's a 5-minute walk from campus!
We went on campus yesterday and did a tour/prayer-walk and it didn't take me long to realize that this is going to be quite a change from Buenos Aires! Whereas the 300,000 students in the University of Buenos Aires were split up onto 13 different campuses, the university we will work on here has all the different colleges on one campus with around 120,000 students attending classes there!
I have loved hearing about all God has done over the past four months since my STINT team arrived and all they're praying for this coming semester. They've been able to do a lot of initiative evangelism alongside current student leaders last year, but this semester, they're really wanting to start discipleship groups that eventually are led by the student leaders themselves. The purpose of us being here is to develop a self-sustainable campus movement, so in order to make that happen, we must keep one word at the forefront: DELEGATE! :)
Please pray God would give us wisdom with whom we should delegate leadership of discipleship to as we train the current student leaders HOW and WHO they should disciple on campus.
Thanks for partnering with me in prayer and/or financially to see the Gospel proclaimed on the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Most students here have heard about religious beliefs that their parents or grandparents have tried to force on them, but very few have ever heard of what it means to have a personal relationship with their Creator. That's why we're here!
Until the whole world hears!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGD3zH9Xvc
We went on campus yesterday and did a tour/prayer-walk and it didn't take me long to realize that this is going to be quite a change from Buenos Aires! Whereas the 300,000 students in the University of Buenos Aires were split up onto 13 different campuses, the university we will work on here has all the different colleges on one campus with around 120,000 students attending classes there!
I have loved hearing about all God has done over the past four months since my STINT team arrived and all they're praying for this coming semester. They've been able to do a lot of initiative evangelism alongside current student leaders last year, but this semester, they're really wanting to start discipleship groups that eventually are led by the student leaders themselves. The purpose of us being here is to develop a self-sustainable campus movement, so in order to make that happen, we must keep one word at the forefront: DELEGATE! :)
Please pray God would give us wisdom with whom we should delegate leadership of discipleship to as we train the current student leaders HOW and WHO they should disciple on campus.
Thanks for partnering with me in prayer and/or financially to see the Gospel proclaimed on the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Most students here have heard about religious beliefs that their parents or grandparents have tried to force on them, but very few have ever heard of what it means to have a personal relationship with their Creator. That's why we're here!
Until the whole world hears!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGD3zH9Xvc
Prayer-walking the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
1 comment:
AHHH Berkley! I love this! I am so excited to keep up with you guys in the DR. :) You guys sound like you're doing great! I hope you're adjusting well sweet girl!
Mary
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