Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Estamos aqui!

Greetings from Hoya del Caimito (Will and Audrey's neighborhood and our home base for the week) Santiago, Dominican Republic! We arrived safely last night and have one full day of experience under our belt. Travel here was great - no delays, easy flights, and only one lost bag (out of 26...not bad). After breakfast this morning, we traveled roughly 20 minutes to Hato del Yaque to begin our contstruction project. The sun was hot and the work was plentiful, but we already feel tremendously blessed. We worked alongside the G.O. Ministries construction staff mostly tying rebar to prepare for the second floor foundation scheduled to be poured next week. We also were afforded the opportunity to spend time with a number of folks from the neighborhood - specifically the beautiful children!!! We shared in fellowship and song and our hearts melted knowing we are helping build a church home for them. We're already officially exhausted and very much look forward to what the coming days have in store. Tomorrow (Thursday), we'll continue at the construction site and work at a children's feeding site in another community.

We've included a picture of us at the construction site looking over the community into the nearby mountains.

Dios les bendiga (God Bless You)!

Rob jr.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a great way to start our morning-hearing of the wonderful experiences you are having. We continue to pray for God to bless all that you do there. We are truly thankful for your servant's hearts. God Bless!

Anonymous said...

I know you'll bless the people you're serving as well as be blessed by them.

Rob, Jr--I'm your prayer partner today, and Steve has Michael H. Have a wonderful day!

Ellis said...

Thinking of all of you, especially one of you. It is good to hear things are going well.
Thanks to all for doing what you are doing.

Anonymous said...

How fun it is to see you pics here - it makes us feel a part of what is going on there. We are praying for you each day and we know you are being blessed even as you are a blessing to others.

Love,

Kelly Mc.

Anonymous said...

It's great to see pictures of you and watch you at work. Make sure you are putting your sunscreen on!!! Love to all of you and thanks for doing God's work! Patti W.