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DR Update #4

Today was an awesome day. I am on the men’s sports team, and on Fridays, our team lead, Dave, goes to the player’s teachers and checks their grades to make sure they are doing well in school. While Dave checked in with the teachers, my teammates and I played basketball and volleyball with the students and some of our players. It was an awesome experience to see the players at school and how excited they

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DR Update #3

Howdy! Today was out first full day at our ministry sites and it was a blast. I’m at the dentistry site and got to hop in, learning on the go, as a dental assistant. It was lovely to witness Dr.Vanessa’s Christ like love, care and hospitality for her patients and get to hear stories of how God is moving in their community. I also got to eat lunch with some of my JWI siblings who

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DR Update #2

  Hello everyone! The first full day in the DR has been such a blast! I am working in the Appropriate Technology site, and I got to meet my leaders during lunch today. They are some of the coolest people that I have ever met! During my time here, we will be installing water filtration systems in the community around us. I am so excited to see what God is going to be doing while

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We’ve Made It to the DR

Hello!!!  Today is our first day together as a class in the Dominican Republic! We took two flights to get here, from LAX to Newark, New Jersey, to Santiago, Dominican Republic. We arrived in the Dominican at 2 pm (10 am California time), we were greeted by some of the students international team then took an hour long bus ride to the site where we’re staying during this trip. After we arrived we got settled

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Headed to the DR!

Hey guys! This week, we have been preparing for our first international trip: the Dominican Republic (DR)! This Sunday, we’re flying out to serve alongside full-time Students International (SI) staff in Jarabacoa. I will be serving on the Applied Technologies team, working to create better water treatment so that people can have safe, clean water to drink! I expect it to be a lot of hard, manual labor, but I am so grateful to have

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New Semester!

This week at Joshua was eventful! I worked in Activities for the first time this winter! I have never experienced Winter Camp before so it was a cool experience! I worked in Reball which is like paintball/airsoft game in which we set up the arena and we got to get to know the game using paintball guns! Kylie Malia and I were refs and that was fun interacting with the campers and getting to know

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