Hospitality of the Nations: We arrived!

KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. You may be wondering why this is titled "Keep the dream alive" and I hope you are. Just this month, for the first time since I began working with COTN, I realized that after my paychecks this month I will be in the red - meaning, I will have a negative balance in my account because I do not have enough financial support coming in to cover my part time salary. You can see on the left how much I have monthly and how much I need total. That means I need another $565 per month committed. That's a lot! I know it can be done though.

I am praying, and will continue to do so, that God's will is done. I love being a part of this ministry and wish to continue here. Especially since I sit in the Dominican Republic as I write this. Maybe God is calling me away from COTN, and if so then I trust Him. I don't feel that calling though. I feel called to push through and get the funds raised that are needed.

(please keep reading in post "Keep the dream alive")

***If you are new to my blog, or new to COTN, please look in the righthand side bar for JANUARY 2010 posts "A Tidbit on COTN" and "A Glimpse at the Hospitality Program" to gain some background knowledge.

July 08, 2012

We arrived!

I am amazed at how somewhere can be so close, physically, but yet take so long to reach! Orlando and Barahona are not very far from each other. I’m sure if you took a plane direct you would make it in two hours max. Yet somehow we left our home at 6:15 am and didn’t reach Casa Bethesda until 8:30 at night. I thought surely two days had passed. Doesn't matter though because at the end of the day we arrived.

I have decided to blog every night so that all of you can share in this experience. After all, you made it happen. I am embarrassed to say, but yet am going to say it anyway, it took me about twenty minutes to figure out how to sign into my blog and make a "new post." Yikes. I guess I don't blog as much as I should. Don't fret. That will change!

It's very familiar being here. Almost too familiar. I don't like how comfortable I have gotten being in this setting. It may sound weird, but I miss the culture shock. I am striving this week to find something new while I am here; or at least to see something differently. You can keep me accountable to that. Today was extremely enjoyable, though. We started by going to church at Pastor Julio's. Then we went to a BEAUTIFUL waterfall (pictures to come) followed by a great beach. Alyssa and I filled Cheez's cargo shorts pockets with rocks when he was walking around the beach in his bathing suit. It was pretty great. All for now - check back tomorrow to hear about our first day of ministry :)