Beisbol, Blossoms, Benediciones!

Another hot day in the Dominican. The boys were off early to morning worship and then clinics and a game in Boca Chica.  The ladies started a bit more leisurely and ventured just down the road to visit Lilly house. Lilly house is a safe house, workshop and training (physical, mental and spiritual) center for women who want to leave a life of prostitution. They shared why it is called Lilly house. The Lilly is a symbol - it refers to the amazon version - an enormous white flower that is generated from tubers down in the mire and muck of the dark riverbed. It reaches up from below and when the sun’s light touches it it blooms into a gargantuan snow white blossom that then has an umbrella effect of protection and security (peace) for other amazon flora and fauna. What a beautiful metaphor of the changing power of God’s love in all our lives and the amazing work specifically being done at Lilly house.  I was touched by the symbol as I saw and was ministered to by women whose lives had been changed. 

Benediciones! To God be the Glory!

Carla Eagan

Hi everybody,

Today we did the biggest clinic of the week. There were at least two hundred kids there ready to play some baseball.  After the clinic we did a gospel presentation and at least fifty kinds gave there life to Jesus on the spot. It was one of the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

- Lane

Hello, Hola!

This is my third year in the Dominican Republic. This has been my hardest year. I’ve been a little under the weather. I’ve been sick. Probably from the fruit. Besides that I’ve been humbled this week. Poverty is brutal. But this week I realized that true definition of poverty is hope. If you are hopeless then you have true poverty. Wyatt Spigener