DR Update - Homestays

First a quick apology for the first blog update coming after about the first 4 days in the DR. This year we have started our time in the DR in our Homestays. This has made it nearly impossible to find the opportunity to post an update and the WiFi has been a little spotty. When you have returned year after year our close Dominican friends have a lot of catching up to do from the moment we wake up to the minute our heads pass out on the pillow. We are so incredibly grateful for this partnership! God is on the move in La Vega and it is so evident by the story's of his provision and the transformation happening in the lives of our VJ friends. Wally is now the Area Director for La Vega and is doing an incredible job. He lives just a street over from Chulo and has begun leading Club in the backyard of his home with his new wife of 2-weeks Anna. As others in La Vega have told me, the work of Vida Joven is making God famous and it's awesome to see! We met Manuel this year, a new Vida Joven friend, that has just come to Christ in the last year due to the work of Vida Joven. He will have his first camp experience this summer in July.

The Homestay was amazing and has so much more to say. But our favorite part of the stay came on the morning of our departure to camp. Yesterday morning we traveled to a women's home, Jeanie, who has been partnering with the La Vega VJ team to host club in the street in front of her home. Wally has told us that she is very poor and does whatever she can to earn money to feed her family of six kids - who are adorable by the way. So he wanted to do something that would bless her that would say thank you for her gifts of storing the VJ chairs for club and allowing them to use her electricity to run the music for club. He found out the she doesn't have a bathroom in her home and has had to ask her neighbors to borrow theirs. Wally took the opportunity of having us in town to build her a bathroom to bless her. And it was awesome! Although we were not able to finish the build for the lack of time, we were able to start the project, pay for the project and pray over the work happening in this home. So so grateful for this partnership.

Today we start work at the camp and I'm being yelled at to grab some breakfast. Until next time. Check the Instagram account for pictures. Www.instagram.com/hsmfirstpres