Hello everyone this is Lexie (: and I was chosen to write about our day today. I was chose to write it by spending the least amount of money today at the straw market. I hope you are all doing good. We are having so much fun down here! And sadly we only have one ...

Hey everybody! This is Ally. We cast lots for who had to write the update today and it fell upon me. I hope you are all doing well and that God is keeping you safe and healthy. We are having so much fun down here and we can’t believe that we only have two more ...

Hello, everyone! This is Timmy here to tell you an update on what we’ve done today, April 16, 2012. In the morning, we got on the bus to travel to a preschool in a village. On the way there, we saw a whole lot of sugar cane fields. The setting was like the movie, The ...

Hi everybody, this is Alan Struna, I would like to thank you guys for praying for us and keeping up with the updates. I really have enjoyed this trip with my fellow classmates and I know you wish you could be here but you will have to wait your turn. Please keep praying for us, ...

Hello, this is David Crisp writing on behalf of the 2012 senior class of Westlake Christian Academy.  We all were awake around 8m.  We ate breakfast, I had cereal with milk but the milk tasted like it had vanilla in it.  After breakfast we got our stuff ready to go to a village in the ...

Hello, this is Andrew Jumper writing on behalf of the 2012 senior class of Westlake Christian Academy. We are in the Dominican Republic now. The days leading up to this trip have been long, and I’m glad that we are finally here. Everyone arrived at the school at around four in the morning. I don’t ...

We went to church today in San Pedro.  It was the church where Aby, a SCORE missionary who works with church planting and training pastors.  For our benefit, the service was bilingual . . . We sang in Spanish but heard the sermon in both English and Spanish.  We were blessed to sing “Tu eres todo ...

An unscheduled scheduled recreational day.  What?  The day started as planned.  We woke up at 5 AM to leave for the northern part of the Dominican Republic.  Some were going White Water Rafting while others were going horseback riding.  About 2 hours into the trip, we got a call that said that we could not ...

Today was another full day of ministry.  This morning we went to Los Palmas Christian School in San Pedro just one year after the HCS Class of 2011 cleared brush and trash from an old abandoned mansion.  Today it houses over 200 students in grades K-6.  It was a beautiful school and the kids were so glad to see ...

Today was a recreational day.  We went by boat to Catalina Island, a small resort island south of the Dominican Republic.  We had a great day snorkeling, swimming, playing volleyball, and participating in an ancient Dominican tradition, dancing (don’t worry . . . . it was only for a couple of minutes).  It was great ...