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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2026![]()
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Jan 26
3:37 PM
"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever." Psalm 136:1
"Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!" Psalm 34:8
When the Lord calls one to go on a mission trip, along with the great excitement, their obedience and trust in the Lord, and their sincerity of heart to share the Gospel, there can be an array of hard emotions that seek to take residence too. These include fears, insecurities, unknowns, and self-doubts. During both our time of preparations ahead of the trip and our time on the Dominican Republic soil, our eyes needed to stay fixed on our Good Lord. The emotions and challenges came, but when we chose to taste of the Lord over tasting the fears and uncertainties, we got to see His faithful goodness!
Included is a list of just some of the ways the Lord's goodness met us personally in the quiet prayers of our hearts, to the ways His goodness met us as a whole through the combined and vocal prayers of His people. Though this will be our last post for this trip, we hope the praises unto our Lord will never cease to overflow from our hearts and speak from our lips!
We thank the Lord for:
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You, our faithful supporters and prayer warriors. Your prayers, notes, texts, and emails were of great encouragement to us.
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The generosity of our financial partners to provide a way for our team to travel, stay in safe accommodations, and bring the supplies that were needed for the school and the community projects we would be doing
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The generosity of those who donated supplies. Supplies such as Play-Doh, paper items, and toiletries would "just appear" in The Bible Chapel's preschool resource room. It was like Christmas morning again and again as unexpected gifts would be waiting on the table for the team to take.
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Team unity, giftedness, and cohesiveness. This team was a collection of different talents, skills, and people whom some of us were meeting for the first time, but all with the same mission. God brought us together, and together we saw His plan and carried out His purposes.
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Protection, safety, and health of the team.
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There were illnesses, physical pain, snow, rain...and yet none of them ceased the work that the Lord set forth for us to accomplish. Illness came during hours when we weren't at the school. Pain was met with times of preplanned rest periods. Snow and rain never halted our time with the kids and people we went to minister to. Uncertainties and doubts were met with encouragement and timely answers.
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Praise God for healing one of our team members from a throat infection. It started with inflamed tonsils and could have worsened, but God took care of it.
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Driving to the Pgh airport on January 17th, we were met with snow and unfavorable road conditions, but we all arrived safely, and our flight remained as scheduled.
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On the way back to Pgh, we flew home two days early and ahead of the snowstorm that Pgh received on Sunday. We did not miss out on any of our scheduled workdays in the school or local community. Our original flights for Sunday ended up being cancelled so had we have kept them we may still be in the Dominican Republic today and needing to spend monies on washing laundry, buying more supplies, and paying for accommodations.
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The lives touched and impacted through the preschool and after-school programs. The children saw that Christians from another country love them dearly. They got to hear of our good God straight from His Word and be challenged and encouraged to see how His Truth is relevant in their lives. Through their answers and responses to the practical application questions and reflective time, we saw fruit.
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The opportunity to minister to underprivileged Haitian children. We could see how God used connections between His people to lead us to a community that needed our tangible help and the hope of the Gospel.
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The opportunity to encourage Robin and Hember, the leaders of King's Kids. The Lord designed the Body of Christ, His Church, and He calls us to pray for one another, spur one another on toward love and good deeds, rejoice with one another, mourn with one another, and encourage one another to persevere in living out our salvation in Jesus. We are thankful to have been able to do this for Robin and Hember.
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Our team has been encouraged and grown in our personal walks with Jesus Christ. We left the Dominican Republic with new friends in Christ. We carry the reminder that obedience doesn't need to know all the next steps, but to stay in step with the Lord.
Thank you for praising our Good Lord with us and keeping the King's Kids ministry in your prayers. Please continue to pray for:
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The Lord's clear guidance of the land purchase Robin and Hember are considering, and their future school plans
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For the Lord's strength and peace to sustain them and encourage them to persevere
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For them to feel and see the prayers, support, and fellowship of the Body of Christ
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For the children to be confident in the Lord's truth and follow hard after Him
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For the children and families to see the Lord's hand of protection and love for them
"I lift my eyes up to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth." Psalm 121:1-2
"Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!" Psalm 34:3
