Wednesday

            Hola Los Americanos,

Hopefully nothing drastic has changed in the United States while we were gone. During our weeklong trip we have made a lot of Dominican friends. We have spent a lot of time getting to know these people and sharing our likes and dislikes. Some Dominican teenagers are teaching us how to dance like they do in church.  They are teaching us choreography that connects to a popular church song in their country. We are doing our best to learn the dance despite not being able to communicate with them. We have gotten a lot better and look less and less like white boys who can’t dance. We have had two scheduled dance practices in the last two days and are working hard to learn the dance. In the Bible, it says many times that dancing is a good form of worship.  We are worshiping God by dancing to a song that pleases him. The song is about believing in God and pushing the past out of your mind so you can move on and be better.  This along with lots of digging, painting, teaching and playing is what we have been doing in the Dominican Republic.  Hope to see you soon.

Aaron Starr, Griffin Rath, and Sam McGhee

These past few days have been amazing, there’s nothing else I could really say to describe it. What really has stuck out to me has been the people. The children love to play games and they’re so patient with you when you mess up. I can’t speak much Spanish but we’ve been able to find ways around the language barrier and still be able to get to know each other. Smiles and waves are offered so easily here even when the two people are complete strangers, makes me wish that people in America did that as well. This whole trip could definately top anything I’ve ever done and has been a great learning experience. I’m really hoping I can come back because I love it here and I’m pretty sure everyone else would agree with me. 

Love you Mom and Dad, I’ll see you soon.

Rachel George






We will leave early in the morning, drive four hours to Santo Domingo, leave around 1:30 and then we have a long layover in Miami and should arrive around midnight in Detroit.  Just over 24 until we are back from this great mission trip!

Our awesome cooks for he week Tracy and Ashley

Murals in the computer lab

Mural in the music room

the team the night before we leave

FINISHED!!! all ten holes completed just before the rain started to pour