Today was our first full day in the Dominican Republic!! We all went to our site assignments for orientation with our groups and site leaders. We got picked up in giant trucks lined with seats in the back; something you’d never see in the states. Myself and 3 other students are in the special education school, called Genesis. When we arrived our site leaders had us experience just a taste of what it would be
In the past few days, the class finished up Tattoos on the Heart for book discussion and listened to our speaker, Dave, talk about preparing for our trip to the Dominican Republic. Dave spoke both about packing our suitcases and unpacking our emotional and spiritual luggage. That night of speaker, many classmates committed to give up certain pieces of baggage in their lives. It was great to see so many people take a step forward
Hello everyone 🙂 Jessy and Lynsey here to update you on all the happenings going on in the building. As we prepare to go to the Dominican Republic we are blessed to have the President of Students International here speaking to us this week. If you don’t know, Students International is an organization that facilitates many trips to Latin America and whom we are going to be working alongside with in the DR. We have
Over this last weekend it was the first week of Winter Camp. It was tons of fun, we all got to work in different places. I was able to work in Activities and I did re-ball, which is basically paintball indoors. It was super fun to hang out with the campers and I even got to play a couple of times. It also snowed so that was great! And our last night we did the
Life at Joshua has been quite busy these last few days. We’ve spent a lot of time working, memorizing Philippians and preparing for our trip to the DR in a couple of weeks. This weekend, we had our first weekend of winter camp. Most of us worked around camp but a few of us had the weekend off. One of the coolest parts about camping ministry is getting to see first hand what the Lord
Last week in Joshua we had preview students! These are students who are interested in coming to Joshua that come, stay, and get to see first hand the program that they are applying for. There were about 15 of them and it was so fun to get to know them and hear about their excitement for the program. It was also really strange to think about the fact that a lot of them will end