Another amazing day here in the Dominican Republic! It was also our first day with the team at our sites which was really cool. This team right now is awesome they are so willing to serve, and the group that is with us at Genesis are fantastic with the kids. There are 7 of them if I can remember all there names I will be doing very well, so there is Autumn, Sarah, and Travis with me in the Physical Therapy and there is Samantha, John, Garret, and Chelsea... I think that’s right, that are working in the classrooms.
So Amy, our site leader recently took on director of Genesis which is making it more difficult for her to work in her physical therapy site, so I am helping her and kind of leading it right now...Not going to lie when I first found out I was a little nervous with that but after today and with this group I am feeling a lot more confident with it and this group from Hume makes it so much easier. They took what I had to tell them and ran with it!!!
This morning Jason (who reminds me a lot of Jeff Atherton) lead devotions on Luke 8, "The Parable of the Sower." He put it in a way that I had never thought about it before and hit home ending it by saying "never forget where you came from." Meaning we can go out and sow the seeds and they will fall on all 4 of the soils, but if we are not right inside, with our heart for the Lord, how can we expect to do His work well and plant the seed to grow if we ourselves are not growing...We were all there at some point in our lives, we were and are all sinners. I have been also reading the book of Ephesians and chapter 2 talks a lot about this. In being one with Christ, verse 4,-5 "But because of his great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions- It is by grace you have been saved.
On a fun note for tonight, it was culture night for the team and our first one as interns! Let me just tell you... SO much fun! After a few minuets of trying to remember the Meringue Jeff and I finally figured it out and had a blast! I think it might become my favorite night to watch teams as well. Another side note, you can actually see the stars here at night. Sitting up and looking at them tonight was definitely one of my highlights so far, and "God of Wonders" comes to mind. God is truly amazing!
So until tomorrow, hasta luego!
What an awesome first day with the team!!! By the time you and Jeff head back to Cali, you will be teaching the Meringue!! :-) And we haven't even seen the moon (let alone any stars!) for weeks, just fog, fog, and more fog!!
ReplyDeleteI think it is wonderful that God has put you in a leadership role already. He's been preparing you for "such a time as this" for a long time. You are going to do an amazing job. I'm so proud of you!!
Thanks for sharing your heart and what you have been studying. Feels like we are chatting in the church library on a Sunday morning. Except you're warm and I'm freezing cold!! Have a blessed week!