Day Three in Dominican Republic

Question: aren't puppies just the quutest thing ever?
Answer: not if they are yelping ALL night long (conflicting
reports say they stopped around 6:30 am) right outside your
window loud enough to make you want to repent of human
existence!

But that was last night. Today we went to a packed out
children's church at 9am., then we handed out about 1000
flyers about our services here this weekend. I brought a travel
sized printer with me that holds about 25 pages at a time. We
had it smokin' out the copies, while we flyered. This team of
people kindly and gladly invited hundreds of people to church.

This afternoon we cooked up the idea to play them a softball game.
We scheduled it for 1pm, so right on time, about 2pm, we headed
out to ... the volleyball court! Volleyball, it turns out, is a sport
played with a net stretched across a busy street. Cars that must
go by honk until you move. Motorcycles, which outnumber cars
3 to one, just duck. Right through the game. No apologies needed.

Then we headed back and showered in the coldest water known
to human-dom, and gathered for prayer. God visited us in that
prayer time. We talked, and prayed, and God talked. Which caused
more prayer.

Tonight's adult service above the hardware store was even more
packed, and rockin! We seemed to connect deeply with the church. It
feels like they are waiting to see if we are for real, and if we can be
trusted, and with every interaction we connect more. Nice.

I really feel God's excitement about this church, and this little city.
Padre Las Casas is a town about the size of Gettysburg, surrounded
by mountains and farms. It is a farming depot. Someone told us that
the kids outnumber the adults by a lot, so it is so smart and Christ-like
for this church to invest so heavily in the children.

We hope to get a flyer into every house, and see more of them
come to church this week. Even better, we hope that some of them get
to walk the streets of Heaven with us, where we can introduce you
as the people who sent us.

Thanks so much.

Gerry