Prayer Requests

ISSUE

August

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That God continues to move in the relationships that are being formed. That I will be able to continue to adjust to the culture and still be effective Positive family influ ences of the students and even the shoe shiners not in the school.

AN I NSI DE LOOK O N W HAT GO D I S DOI NG IN JARABACOA, DOMINICAN REPUBLI C .

Domincan focus
Some of our New Students to Colegio Timoteo. (Jefferson, Jordy, Kedwin, Wilfred, Arismendy, Lisandy, and Joel)

Back to School
Tuesday, August 31, was our first day of classes. We currently have 18 students enrolled in our school ranging from ages 5 to 16. Most if not all of these boys are shoe shiners. The first day of classes went really smoothly and many of the boys came excited and ready to learn. A few of these boys have had difficult journeys in even just getting enrolled in the program

First day of classes at Colegio Timoteo

because some parents dont see the value of an education. Some would rather their child work. This issue has been addressed by our director and pastor, and thanks to God touching the parents hearts, no legal actions needed to be made. Im excited to see how God moves in this school year. Thank you for your prayers.

Character Spotlight

YANKAURY ABREU

My second day in this country, I met a boy that will actually be studying in the school that I am teaching at; Colegio Timoteo. His name is Yankaury Abreu and he is sixteen years old. He currently lives at the church. My time with him has been a huge blessing. When we first met, we went to the park and spent some time getting to know each other. God definitely began working in this relationship at this time and it was amazing how he created an open and confiding relationship. Since that time, just about every day he comes over to my house and we have lunch together. This has become a time where we are able to pray together, read the Bible together, and even just talk about life. I have been blessed by how much confidence and how God has been using this relationship. Yankaury just became a Christian about 5 months ago, and it has been a huge blessing to be able to encourage him and challenge him in his faith. It has been very encouraging to watch him grow and want to go deeper in his faith. We actually both entered the Discipleship class at the church. Basically this is an 8 month program of intense teaching and reading. We are required to read the Bible as a whole and 15 other books within this 8-month time frame (most if not all of this material is in Spanish might I add). I am excited to see how God continues to use this relationship and I am especially excited to be a part of Yankaurys life as he grows closer and deeper in his relationship with God.

H IGHLIGHTS
ACE T RAINING
AUGUST 2-6, 2010

Childrens Summer

Training with ACE

Hey Everyone so I have been in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic for a little over a month now, and it has been amazing to see God working and how quickly I have been able to get integrated into the culture and church here. A lot of trust is being formed in a very short time. The first week of August, I participated in a Training course for the curriculum that I will be using to teach English in the school that I will be teaching at; Colegio Timoteo. The curriculum is called ACE, which stands for Accelerated Christian Education. Our training was set up exactly how things would be run in the classroom and the people being trained became the students for the week. This provided the future professors with an idea of how the students would feel during a typical school week. Wow!! Let me tell you, it is INTENSE!!!! This program is very well organized and incorporates character development and discipline with a Christian education. The three of us from the United program is designed for the States. This made learning the material and communicastudents to be able to work individually and in the areas tion very interesting and at that they need help in specif- times difficult. It required a ically. There were 23 of us lot of patience for the stuthat took this course and only dents and teachers. There a few of us graduated on were literally 4 languages time. I graduated only by the present; Spanish, English, grace of God, but many of Creole, and French. What the other professors graduat- was really neat though was that by the ed within the grace of God You then, my son, be strong in next couple we were all the grace that is in Christ Jeweeks after able to comthe training. sus. And the things you have municate in One thing I heard me say in the presence some way really like of many witnesses entrust to and we ended about this reliable men who will also be up developprogram is qualified to teach others.. ing some that it uses 2 TIMOTHY 2:1-2 very quality the Bible as relationships. its backbone. All of the conIt is so exciting to see other tent and all of the subjects are taught through the Bible. people who have the same calling from God, and the I can see how this program will work very well for the fact that we were able to particular focus of the school come together and see that that I will be teaching at, and we are doing this together in how it will best accommo- different parts of the world is date our students who come very encouraging and excitfrom a variety of different ing. The heart is to make backgrounds, experiences, Gods love known wherever we are at and with the people education, and ages. we are with. Gods army is In the class there was a lot of Big brothers and sisters, and diversity, which made learn- we as the body of source, the ing very interesting. We had church are an amazing force people present from the Do- when we come together and minican Republic, Haiti and are obedient to the direction that God is giving us.

Camp AUGUST 9-13, 2010

A Flood in our School:

Our entire school and Computer lab flooded about knee deep in Water from all of the rain. August 13-14, 2010

MARRIAGE

OF : J HON & R OSENANY H ERNANDEZ AUGUST 14, 2010

Church Outing to the

Beach AUGUST 16, 2010

24-HOUR PRAYER AT T HE CHURCH : GOOD OPPORTUNITY

TO PRAY FOR THE GROWTH AND MA TURITY OF THE CHURCH AS WELL AS FOR THE COMMUNITY OF JARABACOA .

A UGUST 28-29, 2010 F IRST D AY

AT OF C LASS C OLEGIO T IMOTEO AUGUST 31, 2010

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