Today was Independence Day for the Dominican Republic. They celebrated their 167th anniversary of independence from Haiti. Many parades and celebrations were planned for the day.
This morning we left for Mocca, a beautiful city in the mountains. Pastor Rivas’ sister lives there, and we also planned to visit Pastor Rivas’ brother in jail there. Once there, we had the opportunity to meet Pastor’s parents and some of his brothers and sisters. He has 17 siblings! Stacy would not have been able to handle the drive to Mocca. The roads are extremely curvy and filled with large potholes. Talk about holding on for your life! Pastor told us our visit would not be complete without trying the pork and yucca. And yes, for those that know what a picky eater I am, I even tried the yucca! The pork was very flavorful, and the yucca tasted like a potato. I have truly enjoyed all the Dominican food I’ve eaten on my trip. In fact, Stacy claims I'm not really Mexican, that I must be Dominican :).
In the evening, we returned to Sosua and attended Pastor Rivas’ church. He’s a very gifted Pastor and speaker, and he delivered a very passionate sermon on focus. We were also blessed to have 6 missionaries from Canada join the service. They were bringing clothes, school supplies, and backpacks to some of the orphanages.
We witnessed a street fight on our way to church, just proving to us that we need to get the Word of God out to these people more, especially the adults so the young children have a Christian example to follow.
This evening also brought another first for me - a ride in the back of a safari truck. There was nothing smooth about that ride! Tomorrow we are headed back to the mountains and hopefully I can get some pictures. We will also be visiting La Union, the site we had last summer. After that we will be headed to Congrejo, a site from last year. At each site from last year we are interviewing the coaches to see how things are going, to see what they are doing, checking their needs, and we are also checking to see how many Bible studies are being done with the kids.
God Bless,
Carlos
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. (Prov. 22:6)
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