This Week in Pictures - Edition 1

Hope and pray everyone is having a good weekend.  We are doing well down here.  The last few days we have been resting and studying up on our Kreyol.  I just wanted to post a few pictures of life down here in the Dominican Republic.  Hope you all enjoy them.

Brother Darren and Brother Nathan.

Also, please keep in prayer our trip into Haiti.  Right now I'm looking at trying to go over there the first week of April.  There has been a lot of problems at the border lately, so I feel that the Lord would have us to wait till we try and take our trip.  Just last week there was gunfire and one of the Pastors down here had his brother taken captive by some Haitians.  They tied him up and put a noose around his neck and then tried to burn him in a pile of tires.  Thank the Lord, some United Nations troops were able to rescue him.  There is another brother that I know that was there and they had to run and hide.  So tensions at the border right now are a little heated.  Pray that all of this will calm down in the next few weeks.  I really would like to get over there and see the work that the Lord has been doing with Brother Maurice.  Please pray for him also, as he has had some health issues lately and his wife is getting ready to have a baby any day now.

Brother Darren and Brother Nathan handing out the tickets for the Medical Clinic.

This is a Dominican School house. This is where they were going to hold the Medical Clinic.

One of the 4 classrooms.

These are some windmills that the government has set up to generate electricity for some villages.

This is my attempt to be Ansel Adams.  I figure if you make it black and white it has to look professional!

This is a picture of one of the small towns along the coast.  Very beautiful place, to say the least.

A Dominican electric pole!  Everyone taps into the electric and then doesn't have to pay a dime.  The government tried to install meters at one point and the people ripped them out.  So now only some people have meters, usually the rich and those in a city.

Another picture of the electric pole.

This is called the "Camel."  The rock up top is what the say looks like a camel.

Another picture of the "Camel."  Personally, I don't see a camel, maybe a turtle. 

This is your neighborhood Advanced Auto.  They offer the best service and the selection is out of this world.  Actually, this is the Dominican Used Car Parts Store.  The man sitting down is the store manager. LOL

This is the security for the place.  These are the true junk yard dogs!

Benjamin with the neighborhood horse.  There is a man that leaves his horse tied up around our house.  The horse stuck out his tongue when I went to take the picture. 

We saw these pigs the other day, eating at the place where we dump our trash.

Dominican Bacon!

One of the many Military check points in the country.  We have to go through two of these every time we go to Barahona.

Two young girls walking down the street.

One thing you have to watch out for when you drive down here is livestock.  There is usually always a goat, pig, cow, horse, donkey, or chicken in the roadway.  Not to mention the numerous dogs.

Another picture of the cow after he got out of the way!

This one decided not to move.  The trash tasted too good!