Frisco Bible Church Missions

 Our team has begun each morning with breakfast followed by a team devotional and prayer. Then we walk over to Doulos Discovery School ready to serve for the day. Our team split up with half the group moving chairs and desks to classrooms while the other half of the group worked preparing the Gaga Pit for cement.  All week we’ve been working with a great staff member Miguel. Frisco Bible Church presented him with a much needed chainsaw. Here’s Miguel with his new gift. He was overjoyed! Our team had a break for lunch and then it was back to work,  We really felt the heat today. We all made sure that we were staying hydrated. It’s mid week and this is when everyone can get tired,  weary and very sore. But all of us agreed that all that sweat and soreness is worth it in serving our missionaries. All of us have really enjoyed working together as the body of Christ. We’ve also enjoyed serving alongside the Sawyer’s & their children too! After our day of work, we walked back to the hous

 Today our mission team had a fun day in the Dominican Republic traveling to Saltos de La Damajagua (27 Waterfalls). We had so much fun enjoying the beauty of the DR hiking and jumping off waterfalls.  What fun day we all had after a great week of working hard. We even had the Sawyer family come along with us and we thoroughly enjoyed their company.  This has been a fabulous group of families to serve alongside. After our fun day. We traveled back  home and had one more fabulous authentic DR dinner of meat, rice and plantains. Then we did our final debrief as a team sharing what we learned about the Lord through this mission trip along with our highs and lows of the week. This team has been amazing to serve alongside. We praise God for this opportunity to serve Him, the people of the Dominican Republic and Doulos Discovery School Tomorrow we will begin our travels back to Texas. Please pray for traveling mercies as we head back home.

 Today was our last day sweating & serving at Doulos. Our team began our morning with breakfast and morning devotions. Each morning we read a passage of Scripture, pray for our day, the work we will do and then we pray over specific kids that still need sponsorship for the next school year. Then we walk over to the school. This has been one of our favorite ways to get immersed in the culture by walking around Jarabacoa. Our team loves it! We noticed this morning that traffic seemed to be a little lighter than normal and the public schools that we pass were closed. When we arrived at Doulos we were told that it’s the Dominican holiday called Festival of the Flowers so all of the schools and many businesses were closed.  Here’s our team every morning walking to Doulos  Once we arrived at school, we got to work on our final day. The campus was pretty empty today because of the holiday, but that did not stop us from our work. Three members of the team worked on finishing up the wall in

This morning we started off the day with our daily devotional and then walked a mile to Duolos. In the morning, some of the men worked on (and finished!!) moving the wall in a classroom so that this school year classes can utilize the whole space. Others were moving furniture from one classroom to another for teachers to prepare for the coming school year. The activities director at Duolos, Miguel, expressed his appreciation for our team being focused and hardworking to help out with a job that would’ve been a lot harder with just two people! We are glad to serve our brothers and sisters with excellence for the sake of the gospel.  After lunch, we had sports camps (volleyball and soccer) for kids to come and play. There was great turnout, and the campus became wonderfully lively with all the students. We are looking forward to doing it again on Thursday with some other sports. This team got to go to get delicious ice cream afterwards as well. Now we’re eating dinner and resting up for

 Today was our teams first day at Doulos Discovery School. We toured the beautiful campus and learned more about their unique educational model. The school grades begin at Pre K three all the way to High School Seniors (Twelfth Grade). All learning is Christ centered, hands on, bilingual (English & Spanish) learning. Fifty percent of the students are in the Sponsorship Program and the other fifty percent are tuition based. This is an incredibly unique model for DR Schools.  After our school tour, we did a cultural assimilation game very similar to the Game of Life Then we had an authentic DR lunch of pollo (chicken) with beans and rice. After lunch we got to work. Part of our team began constructing a wall in one of the classrooms while another team painted the Gaga Pit while the others moved desks, chairs & boxes in the various classrooms. We did a lot of sweating and we loved every minute of serving our missionaries Rachel and Jon Sawyer and Doulos Constructing the classroom