Sam, Jon, Terry, Elena, Jessika, Emily, and Mel

We arrived to the Dominican Republic (DR) after some unexpected flight changes. One group was sent to New York and was able to share the Gospel there with multiple people by handing out tracks and donuts. While they were sharing, a man named Joe prayed to receive Jesus Christ as his Savior!

Once we arrived in the DR we toured the campus and surrounding area as some of our group had never seen the university before. We ended up going to the library and shared with people around the building. Elena, Sam, and Emily shared with two people, Willie and Mia. Just as the language barrier was becoming evident, who would show up but Estervin, whom Elena had met on the DR trip last spring. Estervin had translated many gospel conversations on the trip last year, and seemed more than happy to join us in our conversation with Willie and Mia. Praise God for His Providence!

Terry and Mel were able to go through the gospel with multiple people, most of whom also wanted to partake in the English classes that the groups will be offering. We gave them our emails and they said they would be contacting us soon.

Please be praying for Alex, Alexander, Pedro, Juan, and Wendy. Jon and Jessika talked with two men and they were able to have some spiritual conversations with both of them. One man said that he wanted to see them again and so they will hopefully be able to keep in contact.

Our group (Michelle, Jon, Scott, Adam, Allie, Caleb D. and I) found ourselves stuck in Detroit as our flight was delayed due to maintenance concerns on the plane. Jon and I immediately left to see if we could get on a different flight when we found out we would not make it out of the airport in time to make our connecting flight in New York.  It was not an easy task because there were many people having difficulties with flights that evening.  After a couple hours of running around to different customer service employees, we were finally able to find a couple routes, but we would need to stay the night in Detroit.  We were sent to the Best Western hotel for the night.  We were hoping for a nicer place, but when we arrived it did not look too bad.

The group would need to be split up as Michelle, Jon, Allie, Adam, and Caleb would be able to leave on a flight at 6:30am the next morning to hit Atlanta then to Santo Domingo.  The Atlanta flight only had room for six, thus leaving Scott and I to find an alternative route.

Scott and I are stranded in Detroit until 5:20pm Eastern time.  We will then travel to New York to make it to Santo Domingo around midnight.

W/e are still staying positive, but please pray we make it there tonight! Today we felt like a kid at the candy store without any money, everything we have attempted to do has seemed to fail.

- Ben Van Walbeek