Mission Trips to the Dominican Republic

2012 MISSION TRIP TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
WHEN: July 6-14, 2012
WHERE: Barahona, Dominican Republic
WHAT: Construction projects, children's ministry, serving with local church plant through community outreach
WHO: Open to all ages
COST: Approximately $1200-1300 depending on cost of airfare
TRIP POINT PERSON: Contact Sandi Whisenant at swhisenant@hotmail.com for more information about this trip.

Dominican Republic Mission Trip Information Meeting - Sunday, January 29 @ 12:00 noon in Fellowship Hall

Planning Meetings - 4:00 p.m. in the FLC Conference Room on the following dates: February 26, March 25, April 29, May 20 & June 24

History of Arapaho Road's Partnership with the Dominican Republic

From 1999 to 2005, Arapaho Road worked with a church in the Invivienda community of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic helping Pastor Marthyn and his church build a church building and minister to their community.  We served under the direction of retired International Mission Board Missionaries Paul & Peggy Siebenmann. (To see photos of the earlier trips to Santo Domingo, go to http://drmissiontrips.shutterfly.com).

Franklin Rodriguez, one of the Dominican men who was studying at the seminary and served as one of our translators in Santo Domingo, felt God calling him to be a missionary in the Barahona area. The small town of Barahona is about 3 hours southwest of Santo Domingo and one hour east of the Haiti border.   In early 2007, Pastor Franklin and his new wife, Benita, moved to Barahona and invited us to help him the following summer with his work there.  Currently, he is serving as Pastor of the church in town and the church in the country, is Missions Director for the Dominican Baptist Convention, leads Bible studies, starts new churches, and mentors pastors throughout the country.

Since the first trip to Barahona in 2007, our ministries have included:

• Three church services: in town, in the country, and in a Haitian community
• A medical clinic staffed by a Dominican cardiologist, pediatrician & dentists
• Bible studies for adults
• Children's activities, block parties, caricatures & movies
• Couples banquets, firemen's breakfasts, businessmen's luncheons
• Re-tining homes, building walls and roofs around latrines, painting homes and the baseball dugout
• Sewing dresses and shorts for the children
• Youth rallies that include a scavenger hunt, pizza, Bible studies
• Conducting baseball, basketball & volleyball clinics
• Purchasing property for the in town church & building a fence around the property.
• Ministering to the Haitians around Barahona in various ways

Click here for stories from the 2011 Dominican Republic Mission Trip.

To read the mission trip blog from the 2009 & 2010 trips go to: http://barahonamissions.blogspot.com

To see more photos of our trip go to:  http://barahona.shutterfly.com

If you are interested in being part of the 2012 mission team, contact swhisenant@hotmail.com.