About a year ago, Eddy and I needed to start searching for a new church to attend. After visiting a few different churches we started regularly attending ICC (International Christian Church). We were welcomed with open arms into their church family and have found a home there. We have gotten involved in some of the church's ministries over the last several months.
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, Eddy serves on the praise team. The church is focused on building relationships with other churches and serving the community. The church is sometimes asked to help with a "campaña". Campañas are very common in the DR and are used as an outreach. Basically you set up in the street in the community near the church hosting the campaña and have a worship service or a concert right out in the street with the purpose of evangelism. Sometimes campaña are just for one night, sometimes they are for several nights.
When helping with one of these campañas, it is always a little bit of an adventure. You are out in the street at night in a barrio. Things go wrong and changes need to be made. The important thing is to be flexible, go with the flow, enjoy yourself and give all the glory to God, because God does find a way to move and work in that space.
I put a few pictures below of these kinds of campañas. In the one you will see that there was no stage, so they just set up in the back of the pickup. In the other, it started raining in the middle of worship so we got rained on for a little while and then when it picked up, we moved into the church. None of those hiccups hindered God and what He meant to do.
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| Monte Cristi |
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| Monte Cristi |
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| setting up in Pekin |
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| This is about when it started raining. |
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