Dominican Republic Day 7

Well, it's late here, and all the others are in bed--so it will be a short blog tonight. Today we went to check on the progress of a few of the other schools and churches that other groups had worked on. We first stopped at Colegio Cristiano Renacer--a school that Joe, Duane and Larry had worked on when they came a couple of years ago. They worked on the first floor, and now a second & third floor have been added. The second floor is finished, but the third still needs some work. It's interesting and exciting to see the projects are still proceeding along. We then stopped by the New Creation in Faith christian school to see how the Canadian group living on the floor above us were coming on their project, and then also stopped by the San Pablo Christian School. We came back to the Mission Center for lunch and then headed out to the church that the group from Hull was working on during the earth quake. We took a group picture in front of it. It was good to see that the local people were continuing to work on it. They were adding a place for the pulpit it front, and some columns out in front. The extra money that our church raised from the offering will go to this church to help them buy doors and windows, and I think also to help pay for the flooring--so it was good to see that also. We then saw a little of the downtown area, and went out to the Colonial Zone. The pictures are of our group sitting outside the Mission Center where we stay--waiting to head out for the day, and this is also where we spend our evenings in devotions, and getting our instructions for the next day from Duane Postma. There is a picture of Ghitto, director of the Mission Center, playing guitar during our breakfast, and also a picture of Joe helping out Irbaland, a Haitian girl who needed to be hospitalized here, following the earth quake. Her right arm is bandaged since she needed skin grafting and has lost her fingers, and her left arm is amputated between the shoulder and the elbow. She is always happy to see us, even though she only speaks Creol (spelling?) we still can communicate pretty well.