Dominican Republic Trip - June 26- July 3rd

(Left to Right: Pastor Janel, Jim Maynard, Adam Long, Damion Johnston, Barb Dokter, Mercy Tucker, Gregg Tucker, and Pastor Bello)

We arrived in the Dominican Republic on June 26th after a thankfully uneventful trip...and with all our luggage. Barb Dokter and Jim Maynard and I flew down together while Damion and Judah Johnston would be joining us the following day. We met up with Gregg & Mercy Tucker with their two kids, Taryn and James who are down in the D.R. for a month this summer.

(From a blog sent two days into the trip)

Jim Maynard, Damion and Judah Johnston, and myself are staying with Tito, a good Dominican friend we have known for years.

On Sunday morning, we headed off to a town close to Santa Dominica to a recently built church that the youth of La Victoria are reaching out to. Pastor Janel joined them to serve the community.

So... here came a bunch of kids on a bus to love the kids of this community! They were also praying about the possibility of trying to create a community center in that area.

We were in the top room praying together with open hands with what God wanted to do. We asked that it would not be our idea but God's.

And then it hit me.

What they were doing -- coming to God in openess -- is what we from Lookoutare doing by coming down here. We want to come with open hands, listening to how God wants us to connect with them. Much like life in Christ, we need to walk with open hands asking God where he is working.

Sweating for Jesus,

Adam Long