Kingsway Academy Dominican Republic Mission Trip 2011
In the year 2009 a group from the New Providence community church embarked on a mission trip to serve and learn alongside various ministries in Santo Domingo. It was my first mission trip ever, but for years I have been dreaming of an opportunity to go on a trip like this.
The people that comprised the group represented a rainbow of ages, colors, walks of lives, nationalities and interests…the one thing that was in common was the passion to learn more about what it truly means to live out the biblical principles of loving your neighbor. Little did we know that this trip would force us to overcome our differences and, once the barriers came down, we were stripped down to the core of our deeper feelings. We learned from the experience and from observation of our Dominican brothers and sisters who lived out their faith in such freedom. We learned that you do not need to have much to give nor do you have to be anyone else other than yourself. As a teacher and a youth leader I was inspired to expose the students to such experience and instead of a regular language exchange school trip I decided to make it an immersion/mission trip. My hope is that they will encounter and whiteness the simplicity of Christian faith manifested in the lives of others, that they will overcome the barriers of language, culture and personal inhibition and will immerse themselves in the experience of what is to come…so stay tuned and follow us on our blog :
Peace’n’Love
Iliana :)
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