Summer has started and the Dominican Rising team is up and running.
Mission trips, translating, setting things up, hiring people, cleaning the house one week and then again the next week. So you can guess we are really busy.
Summer is an opportunity for us to minister along with the teams, recap with some of the ministry sites, and make some money. Once the trip s finished we need to go back to our own ministry scenarios and continue where we left it.
This last week we had, for the third time, Lanier Hills church which is working with Pastor Rigoberto and Manuel at Cerros de Mogollon. Mayi, Horlyn, Connie and myself were translating while the team engaged in a ministry that was not only a blessing for the church but for the church planting area.
I remember when first started hiring interpreters, one of the rules was this "let them minister, you are just their voice". I didn't`t imagine that our interpreters would be Dominican Missionaries.Sometimes they would want to jump in into the conversation and talk for themselves to the people we are ministering to. This time I broke the rule.
I don`t mean to boast about this in any way, God forbid me, but there were two times in which I felt the need to interfere in the conversation and share my own testimony and the gospel to the people we were with. Once was with a group of Haitians we ran into. Contrary to previous opportunities, they were very open in talking to us (probably because they saw that a Dominican spoke their language). I was able to encourage them to continue following the Lord despite living as illegals in a foreign Country.
The second time I was able to share the Gospel with an old lady and her neighbor. This is a weird one because while I shared the gospel with Her I remembered having a dream about it about two months ago. In my dream I was preaching to an old lady but I realized that the younger lady was the one needing to hear to what I was saying. As this dejavu happened I focused on the younger lady to tell her to continue seeking God. I referred her to Pastor Rigoberto and Manuel so that they continue with the follow up.
In the end it was a huge blessing for us to minister this week with Pastor Rigoberto and Manuel, and we hope that the rest of the summer continues like this.
Just a quick note, Because we are so busy it might be that I don`t post that often (which I barely do Anyways).
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