Hi everyone,
Thanks for keeping up with our blog entries. This is just a quick update to let you know that things are going very well with the LIFT students out at the different ministry sites. Thanks to those of you who have been praying - we are seeing God at work. They have been getting a lot of hands-on learning about missions and being challenged by the missionaries. We will be having a missions class tonight to summarize important points of effectively doing cross-cultural ministry and discussing the gospel and how to communicate it creatively.
Tomorrow evening's missions class will move from ideals, theories and principles to the reality of missions as the students will have opportunity to ask questions from a panel/forum of the missionaries serving here with all their years of experience. These classes help tremendously with the LIFTers being able to process all they are learning. The days of being out at the ministry sites and living in the Dominican culture are the practical, experiential "classes" of the Missions Practicum course - making academics applicable!
We have made a slight change of plans in our itinerary for this coming Sunday. Since the whole group will be attending church together in the morning and have the afternoon available, the students will have the option to rest at the base or do a 3-hour hike on the tallest mountain peak in the valley, Mogote. It used to be in previous years that the group was split so that half would attend a morning service and the other half an afternoon service. The change this year allows LIFTers the option of climbing another mountain over 4,000' except in tropical conditions verses the Adirondacks, which are getting a bit colder this time of year.
Great news! Five of the LIFTers (Kevin Hebert, Rachel Capalbo, Zach Shepard, Annie McConnell, and Zivana Mihalik) have requested (with the support of their families) to be baptized while they are down here. We will be finishing up our time in the DR with a morning of debriefing next Monday followed by a baptismal/worship service at the base of a 70' waterfall in the rainforest-like setting. I can't think of a better way to celebrate the amazing love of God and His hand in our lives.
Tim
Check out the LIFT Discipleship Program Facebook page for photos of our time in the DR and be sure to catch up on all the blog entries if you have not had a chance to do so.
https://www.facebook.com/liftdiscipleshipprogram/
Thanks for keeping up with our blog entries. This is just a quick update to let you know that things are going very well with the LIFT students out at the different ministry sites. Thanks to those of you who have been praying - we are seeing God at work. They have been getting a lot of hands-on learning about missions and being challenged by the missionaries. We will be having a missions class tonight to summarize important points of effectively doing cross-cultural ministry and discussing the gospel and how to communicate it creatively.
Tomorrow evening's missions class will move from ideals, theories and principles to the reality of missions as the students will have opportunity to ask questions from a panel/forum of the missionaries serving here with all their years of experience. These classes help tremendously with the LIFTers being able to process all they are learning. The days of being out at the ministry sites and living in the Dominican culture are the practical, experiential "classes" of the Missions Practicum course - making academics applicable!
We have made a slight change of plans in our itinerary for this coming Sunday. Since the whole group will be attending church together in the morning and have the afternoon available, the students will have the option to rest at the base or do a 3-hour hike on the tallest mountain peak in the valley, Mogote. It used to be in previous years that the group was split so that half would attend a morning service and the other half an afternoon service. The change this year allows LIFTers the option of climbing another mountain over 4,000' except in tropical conditions verses the Adirondacks, which are getting a bit colder this time of year.
Great news! Five of the LIFTers (Kevin Hebert, Rachel Capalbo, Zach Shepard, Annie McConnell, and Zivana Mihalik) have requested (with the support of their families) to be baptized while they are down here. We will be finishing up our time in the DR with a morning of debriefing next Monday followed by a baptismal/worship service at the base of a 70' waterfall in the rainforest-like setting. I can't think of a better way to celebrate the amazing love of God and His hand in our lives.
Tim
Check out the LIFT Discipleship Program Facebook page for photos of our time in the DR and be sure to catch up on all the blog entries if you have not had a chance to do so.
https://www.facebook.com/liftdiscipleshipprogram/
So excited for the five LIFTers!! What a special blessing!! Please post pictures!
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