Outreach #2 - San Pedro de Macoris

Two weeks of outreach have come and gone. It’s hard to believe that in less than a month and ½ I’m headed home! October 17th until the 24th we were in Los Solares, a tiny community in the province of San Pedro de Macoris. We gutted the inside of an old house that was going to become the new church – hauling out wood, pounding out nails, tearing down walls to create one big room, and shoveling dirt that had somehow piled up inside. I saw the biggest cockroach of the trip inside that bathroom; we dubbed him “cuc-arania” which translates loosely to “spider-roach.” Yuck. We held presentations a few times, visited with people and had mini devotion sessions with them.
Our team’s main goal is flexibility; it’s our f-word. We’ve used this technique over and over again over these last two weeks. In Los Solares, the power went out several times right before presentations (when we need power); we walked for ½ an hour to a school to present, only to be told that we were not allowed to anymore; in Batey Esperanza (our second place), the people did not accept our presentations as evangelism – they were merely entertainment. We canceled the rest of our presentations for that week. We had a worship/sharing night for the church one night, a morning VBS for about 100 kids, and a prayer session for Haiti. We held it in the baseball diamond in the middle of the community; it was amazing! There were about 150 Haitians of all ages on their knees crying out to God for repentance and for healing for their home country. The pastor started the praying, we provided the music, and the Holy Spirit did the rest.
These past two weeks were hard, but I learned so much about the faithfulness of God - He knows what is going on, even though we don't always. When we didn't know what else to do, we prayed as a group, and then shared ideas that God had given each of us. It's amazing how 10 people can share the same 3 basic ideas. God is good - all the time. :D