Mission trip 2016

In about a month, our team from Murphy and North Monroe will be arriving in Dominican Republic to serve with Iglesia Bautista Central del Sur in Barahona, DR. For some of us, this will be our 10th year to serve in Barahona! We are so excited to see our friends there, meet new ones, and do what the Lord has planned for us that week! Please pray for us during this month of preparation; and during our time there (July 7-16), we especially need your prayers of health, protection from mosquitos, travel safety, and guidance as we share the love of Jesus everywhere we go and in all activities we lead and participate in. Thank you for supporting us with your prayer!

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Please PRAY for our 2015 Mission Team

June 24 - July 1, the "first" First Baptist Murphy Mission Team to the Dominican Republic will be serving with Iglesia Bautista Central del Sur in Barahona, DR. We look forward to seeing our friends again and sharing the love of Jesus Christ through English conversation with the English Immersion classes, teaching Bible studies, VBS for kids, constructing a restroom for the church, giving away several water purification kits, worshiping with three churches and many other ministries. One of the highlights of the trip for us will be to walk into the church building we helped construct last year and be amazed at how God has blessed this church! Praise God for the opportunity again to serve with these wonderful people!

Mission Trip 2014

Our DR Mission Team  just completed its 8^th mission trip to Barahona, Dominican Republic and we couldn’t have done it without YOU!

Your combined response, prayer and financial, was overwhelming this year. We thank you very much, and we thank God for your support.

Trusses up when we left

 

Boards up when North Monroe left

Most of your gifts went to finance the permanent roof structure for the church building. Your support provided for the structural steel (I-beams), hiring three welders, lumber to support the roof panels, metal hangers and metal screws, rental of a crane to set the metal roof trusses, and the roof panels. All materials for the roof have been purchased and were stockpiled for North Monroe to continue to installation.

While our construction team was not able to physically accomplish all that we wanted and the progress was slow to our liking, with two other construction groups coming down to provide labor over the next three weeks, the roof should be completed this summer and they hope to also be able to put in windows and doors. This will for all practical purposes complete the construction phase that Arapaho Road started four years ago. Praise God for your help! Praise God, our Christian friends in Barahona will now have a roof over their heads and can fully use the Temple to grow the church and reach their community for Christ.

Watch this page for more about what we did - coming soon!

2014 Mission Team Serving July 2-9

This team +Caleb (not pictured) will be serving again in Barahona, Dominican Republic July 2-9 with the Iglesia Bautista Misionera de Jesus church. We will be doing VBS, sharing Christ with a volleyball clinic, teaching ladies and men's Bible studies, working with English classes, helping put a roof on the church, prayer walking, worshiping with the 3 churches and doing whatever else God calls us to do while there. Thank you for your support and please pray for this team as it prepares to serve.

2013 Dominican Republic Mission Team Report

In July the 16-member Dominican Republic Mission Team spent six full days serving at our Dominican Republic SMP in Barahona, Dominican Republic. Then, a team of 4 remained in Barahona for an additional eight days continuing the work. THANK YOU again for supporting this work!

Construction of the church building extended the slab to the full building size and built four walls with openings for windows and doors. Church was able to meet for church on the slab the second Sunday.  The boards have been removed from the columns and entrance and it’s now ready for a roof, doors, and windows.

The construction team shared beans and rice each day with Haitians and Dominicans who were hired to work each day. The beans and rice were cooked by one of the women of the church who held one of the ladies Bible studies at her home. The workers also included a couple of young boys who enjoyed working alongside the team and church members who enjoyed helping with translation and physical labor.

The team’s children’s workers held VBS four days for over 100 children each day and taught Sunday School for children at three churches. They also held a volleyball camp for girls and did VBS for them.

The ladies Bible study leaders held Bible studies for four afternoons at the homes of three ladies who are church members. Over 60 ladies, a couple of men, and several young girls participated in these Bible studies each day. They enjoyed doing a craft, singing, studying the Bible, and fellowshipping together.

The ladies had a “girls only” beach party for some of the ladies and their children, translators and young girls that included a devotional time with Marilyn Lee.

 

The team attended Sunday services at four churches, two of which were Haitian churches, and Mike Pope preached at three of those services.

The team helped at the university’s English Immersion classes one to three times a day. Suzanne did caricatures of the students and the rest of the team met in small groups with the students who shared about their life and asked our team questions. We were able to openly share our testimonies and the Gospel with a variety of fun activities.  Young church members who were in these classes and who were only speaking Spanish last year, were so excited to be able to speak English to us this year. We were also able to help a young man from the blind church pay the $10 to take the English class next semester. He said he would be able to buy his books! As a result of these English classes, the church has begun an English worship service and Pastor Franklin said the first one went great with and three students from the English classes attended. They will offer this service every two weeks.

 

The team prayer walked throughout the community inviting children to VBS and ladies to Bible study, and prayed with those in each home.

 

Those on the team who had been on previous mission teams, made connections with their DR friends, gave lots of hugs, caught up on where they were in life, and encouraged them in their faith. 

If you are interested in being part of this mission team in the summer 2014, contact us at barahona@arapahoroad.org.