Words cannot do today justice, at least of my own experience. I have a picture which will tell a story I will never forget.

Sure, everyone worked their tails off, moving thousands (literally) of buckets of sand, water, and concrete up and down stairs…but my own personal highlight included a Dominican Spa Facial.

I’m waiting for a team member to give me the picture tomorrow….and I will just let that speak for itself.

Tomorrow I am going to “The Hole” which is a dump where people live. The poorest of the poor. I’m sure I’ll have lots of stories to share tomorrow night.

Thanks for your prayers!

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We are sleeping in the middle of the city of Santiago, in a cement dormitory with 10 foot high, 3 level bunk beds and open air. Our power is battery generated and toilets do not like toilet paper. No hot water (at all, at the moment), but who needs that anyway?

Outside my slatted window are the constant sounds of Spanish voices, children playing, birds, bikes, and squeaky brakes less than three feet outside where my head is. If I stuck my arm out, I could probably touch one of the children walking by.

They told me to bring ear plugs to help me sleep since it was loud, but I can honestly not think of a sweeter sound to fall asleep to than the life of this city.

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it is 3:40 am, also known as the ungodly hour, also known as i need some red bull, also known as five minutes before i am leaving to meet the team from cross point at the airport.

it is early.

but, i am excited…i feel privileged to take another out-of-the-country trip into a land which will stretch me far beyond my comfort zone. humbled at the chance to serve some with some amazing people.

the dominican is not far away. a quick trip to miami, then right into santiago. we’ll be arriving there about the same time you’re eating lunch.

your prayers are so needed for this trip. we have a pretty large group (26) going and with luggage and some camera equipment and well, just 26 people, logistics can get hairy.

please pray specifically for…

–our health & safety. this one always makes me nervous. especially after my roommate in africa had to go to the hospital in uganda while we were there in february. my asthma has been flaring up lately too…so yes, please cover us and some in this area.

–logistics. sometimes, luggage gets lost. it’s not the end of the world, but can distract us nonetheless. it was a miracle nobody’s luggage got lost with all the connecting flights we had to africa. please pray for smooth logistics.

–hearts. most importantly, our hearts. there are a lot of first-timers going on this trip and going to a new country and doing hard work out in the sun, away from comforts and family can do many different things to a person. please pray that we will keep our hearts open and flexible to ministry.

thanks everyone…i’ll update when we have some down time, and hopefully, i’ll be able to send short updates via twitter…so you can follow me that way too.

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before we moved to nashville, pete emailed me and told me to call him after i left work because he had something exciting to share. (this, please note, was before lunch time…and the suspense throughout the day was killing me!)

on my way home, i called him and he asked if i’d like to help lead a trip cross point is taking to the dominican. no question about it — yes!!

so, next tuesday, pete, myself, and a group of others (we are in the process of gathering all their blogs for those who have them) will be headed down to the dominican until july 22.

we are working on doing something similar to the compassion bloggers trip i went on, sharing with words, photos, and videos what we are doing and experiencing there.

if you’d like to pray for us, i know we would greatly appreciate it. and if you’d like to share our journey with your blog readers, you can find different sizes of the above image here at this link.

i hope you’ll follow us!

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