Republica Dominicana - Phase 2 of 2 and beyond...

Hola, and greetings from the DR team!

We are safe and sound in Jarabacoa and have been loving every minute of our time so far.  We have some amazing answers to prayer that have happened even since departing Taylor.

On Thursday we left with the Jordan team and stayed the night in the O'Hare area. We all arrived to the O'Hare between the hours of 1:30am and 4 am on Friday morning for our flight.  Needless to say we were pretty tired!  Our fligh was sceduled to take off just before the massive snow storm hit O'Hare; thankfully we were one of the last planes to leave O'Hare!!!! On the plane most of us spent at least a few minutes checking the weather channel and being thankful that we got out when we did. We arrived at JFK with a few butterflies in our stomachs from the turbulent landing, but we all made and our luggage made it even better! After a very nice flight to the DR we had a 3 hour drive from the coast to the mountain...gorgeous!  Our team photographer Katie took 400+ pictures of that drive alone.  We finally made it to Jarabacoa and stayed that night in a beautiful mountain retreat on the river Jimenoa. Complete with Semana Santa (Holy Week) parties in the background. 

A more exciting note is the fact we have already had one outreach to a community while being here. We had the chance to partner with a house of New Horzions youth (of Escule Caribe) to put on an outreach in the community in which they are building a house. We had over 150 children, just children show up to watch our skits, puppets, and music. 

After our outreach we came back to the Student International base to check in, clean up and eat.  SI is such an amazing group of men and women of God and love on their teams so well.  And we can only hope to reciprocate our love back to them equally as well.

Prayer:
Team Vulerability: openness and honesty to each other
Our outreach tomorrow at a local church were we will be performing for the main service and the children's service!
Continued team unity

Praise:
A team member's brother accepted Christ today!  Join our celebration!
A successful first outreach
Health
Safe travels and God's traveling provisions
We have a guitar player this year (Dr. Tyner is extremely thankful for this!)

In Chirst,

Brooke