Wrapping up the summer teams 2014

Eating Breakfast in a "local" restaurant. Great experience for all

     On Tuesday morning we said good by to the LIFT Leadership training outreach and have finished out another great year of teams here in the DR. With 12 different outreaches and a total of over 500 participants, it was a great summer here in Jarabacoa. We currently are now hosting the 5 Semester Abroad students from Bethel College as well as 4 Bethel Staff members that are here to see what we do, how we do it and why we do what we do. The Semester program maybe has a little more meaning to me than others since that is ultimately one of the main reasons our family is here. Our daughter Rachel was part of that program in 2010 and we came down to visit her and, well, here we are.

Dave Wenger in the kitchen in Los Higos

       Some things that have happened here are: my folks and Dave Wenger were here for a week and Dad and Dave helped me with a project in Los Higos that I have been working on for a while. We poured some concrete floors, did some plumbing, laid some block and did a little site seeing also. It was good to have them back again for the second and third time.

Dad patching in the sink drain

Dave in the park getting a much needed shoe shine

Filling blocks at the ball park for the Men's Sports Site

      

































Another item that we had here at SI DR was that Megan Adams (Marcy's tutor) had her baby the first part of November so that was exciting. Janae and Karen have been helping her to keep up with her homework as much as possible for a couple weeks until Megan is ready to have her come back so that has been different.

Marcy Dave and baby Joshua.

Marcy the surgeon.

Ground Breaking for the new clinic in San Juan de la Maguana

   Jerry Yoder from LaGrange also came down for a visit for a couple days. There was a ground breaking ceremony in San Juan de la Maguana and we both wanted to attend that so he flew in and we were able to spend a half a day celebrating with the Solid Rock International staff, board members and supporters as they began construction on a new clinic. It was an exciting day.