Our walk with the Lord and our desire To See the Glory
Posted by Shawn on June 25, 2011
We had switched programs a while back for newsletters and now we are getting close to sending out our first with the new system.
Please take a moment and add yourself so that you will not only receive some awesomely beautiful photos of our family, we will (through wordy descriptions) tell of what God has been doing with us here in the Dominican Republic.
(Thank you for your patience with us as we made the transition due to software changes.)
Posted by Shawn on March 26, 2011
Everyone knows those times when things just change. Everything seems to be out of your hands and there are a lot of unknowns. Well, we are in that season now, but we have some things we can share with you about those changes.
Niños de la Luz boys (with Summer and Hannah)
Currently we are volunteering with Niños de la Luz up in the hills. It is a ministry here in Sosua that has a heart for street children. The family-like structure there combined with God’s amazing love has drawn us all to want to serve there. There are two areas of ministry, first is to younger street kids whom they take in as family and the other is to older boys who are at the age of graduation and need to be taught life skills. Currently they are building a new home to house the younger boys and until that is finished the life skills portion is on hold.
This ministry started in Venezuela and now is also in the Dominican Republic. The focus there are the boys, bringing them up in the love of Christ, and the hope of someday these boys having families of their own in which they will be equipped to lead spiritually and physically able to provide.
Pray with us as we ask the Lord for continued guidance as we desire to follow Him.
Just our little time spent so far visiting the Ranch has grown our love for these children. We have seen the love between those there to work with the kids and the kids. It really feels like a large loving family up there.
Besides helping some with staining boards for the ceiling in the new house and helping build some bunk beds, I was able to put to use skills from the past in wood working by replicating a table and a couple of benches to match.