Sunday, August 2nd DR Mission Team

This morning, we got to attend a church service in the town of San Pedro (it's about the size of Lakeland and 20 minutes from the SCORE complex in Juan Dolio). The name of the church is Juan 3:16 and is pastored by Sadrac who is a Score missionary. The music and message was amazing! A group from the New York team got up and sang "How Great is Our God" in Spanish in front of the church. When combined with people also singing it in English, it was a beautiful joyful noise singing praises to the Lord! All of the music was sung in Spanish. Pastor Sadarac gave the message in English and had a translator for the Dominicans there. He started the message by reading Matthew 10 talking about all of the disciples, and how Simon the Zealot was just mention once in the entire Bible. Then he used 1 Corinthians 12:21 talking about the importance of all of the body parts, and finished with Matthew 19:27-28. The meaning behind the message was to be faithful in whatever God calls you to do, whether you are a known or unknown soldier. Your reward will be received in Heaven for the Kingdom work done on earth. It was awesome to be able to worship with the church members there despite having a language barrier.

After church we made our by a local store and picked up some items, then we headed back to the Score Complex. We ate lunch and then met as an entire team to introduce ourselves and get to know each other a little better. After that it was time to work! We began unpacking the supplies that were brought by both the FL & NY teams. We formed an assembly line and started making 200 hygeine bags that will later be distributed to families that Score works with throughout the year.

We got to visit the beach for few hours after packing all the bags right before coming back to eat super and have devotion. We can't wait to share with you all tomorrow about the amazing things that God has shown us. Continue to pray for our team, both FL & NY!