Hola! Mi nombre es Hallie. I am on the team with Tammy and Cora and will be helping Peter out with the blog. A few facts about me: I am from Ypsilanti, MI. I come from a homeschooled family with 5 kids. I am 18 and just graduated from high school and will be going to nursing school in the fall. I love Jesus with my whole heart and have a passion for helping people and mission work. I heard about this trip from Tammy, one of our leaders, a very close family friend. I am so excited to be here! I arrived with Tammy on the 4th and will write more tomorrow about what we've been doing since the our first half of the team got here.

Praise God! The rest of the team arrived tonight safely and only an hour behind schedule. After they ate a delicious Dominican meal, we started to unpack and get situated. Some of us got to sing Spanish songs with Tia Tammy and had a great time of fellowship. We practiced the dramas that we will be doing in the church tomorrow morning. Some of us went in our 'Wal Mart' room where we are unpacking the twenty some 50 lb bags that we brought down here full of supplies. The room is an explosion and looks like a full out Wal Mart. Most of the team is in bed now, especially the ones who have been up since 2 am this morning.

The plan for tomorrow is church in the morning, where we will share three of our dramas. Some time after lunch we will pack up and move to El Cercado for our home stays. We will be there until Tuesday. Tomorrow night will will share more dramas in Morales' (a pastor in El Cercado) church. Then the team will spread out to our various homes for the night.

PQs:
(prayer requests)
-that God would continue to bless us with good health
-that God would give us extra energy and strength
-that we would all have good attitudes and the right motivation as we serve and minister to the
Dominicans
-that God would continue to keep us safe in all that we do
-that God would keep our hearts and minds open as we try and learn new things, especially
while we are at our home stays
-that as we work together as the body of Christ, that all the different parts of the body would be
able to find the place and function in that place that God has for them
-that, from the relationships we have established, we will be able to share Christ

Praises:
-that the team arrived safely
-that everyone is in good health
-for the time of fellowship with other Dominican believers
-for the good community within the group
-for the good ministering opportunities with other Westerners working in the DR


More to come tomorrow...


God Bless!
Hallie (for the team)