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LoriAnn Filbrun’s Baptism Testimony

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About a year ago I was starting to look more into God’s word. The more I looked, the more I realized I am a big sinner! Without Christ, I am filthy! I would go to hell forever if Jesus was not King of my life. I do not want to go to hell. I do not want satan in my life.

I know that only through Jesus Christ, I am saved, through faith. I know only God can forgive my sins. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” I believe that Jesus is God’s Son and that He died on a cross and rose again for us. I want the world to know this!

Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist to set an example for all of His followers to be baptized. I want to be like Jesus. I know that baptizing me does not save me. By being baptized today, I can express to the world my love to God and that I am a saved Christian. I no longer live in fear. I have everlasting life!

Greenville Grace

Queko (Eneko) Izaguirre’s Baptism Testimony

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When I was five years old my mother passed away and during this time people would tell me that she was in a better place and that I would see her again someday. Everybody would tell me that she was in a place called heaven. This event caused me to ask questions about this place, I wanted to know about it and I wanted to know how to get there so I could be with my mother again. My dad told me that the only way to get to heaven is by believing in God, because of my age I did not completely understand the importance of the Gospel of Christ, but I knew that God existed, so I said the sinner’s prayer and thought that I was saved. I started to attend a Catholic church even though I did not really understand the message. At that moment I only wanted to have a relationship with God because I had been told that it was what I was supposed to do to go to heaven and be with my mother again, this was my only motivation. But when I was seven years old God used my grandmother to make me realize that my motivation for having a relationship with Him was wrong, and that my only motivation should be what he did in the cross for us. This was the moment when I started to realize how important that was, when I started to understand the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, though I was still too young to understand some things. I was eager to know more about Him, and my grandmother taught me many things about God, one of the most memorable things that she taught me is that I did not need a priest to talk to God, that I could do it myself. This is the main reason why I stopped attending Catholic Church. I could not go to any Christian churches because there weren’t any close to where I live. Even though I stopped attending church, I did not stop having a relationship with God.

When I was fifteen years old I decided to become an exchange student, and by God’s grace I ended up living in Greenville, with a family that had just started attending Greenville Grace Church. This church has helped me to fully understand the importance of the Gospel. In only eight months I have learned more about Jesus Christ than what I had before in my whole life. I know that I did not end up leaving (living) in Greenville just by chance, I know that he wanted me to know more about Him, and that this was the right place to do it. I also got the opportunity to serve Him during a mission trip in the Dominican Republic last March, where I got to know other people from this church that I had never met before, I got to share the Gospel with people that had never heard it, and I also worked with a medical team.

I got baptized when I was a baby, but the reason why I am doing it today is because I want everybody to know how thankful I am for Jesus dying on the cross to save me from my sin. God has been watching over me for my entire life. He brought me here so I could learn more about Him, and has always been so good to me.

 

Greenville Grace

Rebecca Leensvaart’s Baptism Testimony

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Revelation 29:11 says “…they overcame him (satan) by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony…” I stand before you today to testify that the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is not just a story of something that happened a couple thousand years ago. This gospel that you hear preached Sunday after Sunday still has the power to change lives. I would like to share with you how this Jesus has changed my life.

I grew up going to church; my parents tried to teach us the bible. But for whatever reason, I viewed God as a harsh judge; angry, distant and not pleased with me. At a very young age, I began to fear this God…not a healthy fear, but a “he might strike me dead at any moment” kind of fear. I lived in constant dread of His wrath.

When I was nine years old, I remember sitting at the table one night; my dad was reading the bible. Suddenly, I had this strange realization that I was not just flesh and blood, but an eternal soul. I got this panicky feeling that started in my stomach worked throughout my body. I knew in that moment that though my flesh would die, my soul would live forever. And I didn’t know where I would spend that forever…though I had a pretty good idea. This is where my quest began; my quest to appease an angry God.

I started reading my bible, thinking that would please God. Problem is, I was programmed to read the bible as a list of rules. So I concluded that I just needed to try harder to be good; to stop doing bad things. And I did try really hard…for a of couple weeks. But I couldn’t keep it up. This started a pattern in my life. Try really hard to be good…fail…despair…then try hard again. This always ended in failure and defeat.

So I began to resent God for having such rigorous standards. I didn’t see myself as that bad of a person…in fact; I thought I was pretty good compared to other kids around me. I had no understanding of the fact that I was a sinner in need of grace. And since I didn’t know I was a sinner, I didn’t know I needed a savior either. I was just trying to stay out of hell.

When I was 15, I decided to get baptized. I thought maybe getting baptized and joining church would take away the guilt and fear. Maybe then God would be pleased with me. Of a truth, I went into the water a dry sinner and came out a wet one. Now my life was governed by a new set of rules…codes of dress and an exhaustive list of does and don’ts added to the ones already in the bible. The weight and burden of all I had to live up to was getting heavier and heavier as I sank deeper into despair. Jason Grey puts it so well in one of his songs: “all that religion ever made of me, was a sinner with a stone tied to my feet…it never set me free.”

I lived here for years, keeping up the façade that everything was fine. I looked and talked like a Christian; I went to church. But inside I was dead. I really did want to be free, to be good, to stop messing up…I just didn’t have the power to do it.

It took getting married and having kids for me to really start to see my sin. After 5 years of marriage, everything started falling apart. I came to the end of myself…I simply didn’t have anything left to live for. All the things I’d used to try and fill the void in my heart just didn’t satisfy anymore. I had the husband, the house, the kids, all the stuff I thought would make me happy. The lure of pleasure and entertainment didn’t take away the loneliness, the emptiness. I longed for something more.

Two and a half years ago, God brought a woman into my life…someone who cared about all the pain and confusion in my heart. David and I spent a week with her and her husband…and this is where my story begins to change. Because that week, I met Jesus.

For the first time in my life, I was able to talk about some really hard things that had happened in my childhood; things that kept my heart locked up. I had so much anger and bitterness inside that was controlling my life. You see, I thought that holding on to these things would make me stronger. But in reality, it was killing me.

As we talked that first day, they invited me to lay all the shattered pieces of my life at the feet of Jesus. All I had to do was surrender, let go. Bowing my head, I began to pray. Tentatively at first; then, like a flood, all the pain, frustration, anger, confusion…it all came rushing out. Like Jonah 2:2 says “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress and He answered me”. Jesus met me there, in my brokenness, and for the first time in my life, I felt His love, His grace, His abundant mercy.

As I prayed, I pictured Jesus taking all my ugliness, all my sin and carrying it to the cross; while I walked away pardoned, cleansed, forgiven. Immediately, I felt the burden of my sin lift. Gone was the fear that had governed my life. Gone the guilt and shame. In its place peace, joy…

It was like scales fell away from my eyes and I saw God for who He really is; not distant or angry…but compassionate, gracious and full of mercy.

That was the day I began falling in love with Jesus. Not a “box of chocolates” kind of love, like Danny mentioned, but a deep, unmovable, satisfying love. A love that makes me want to give up everything to follow Him. Falling in love with Jesus broke the chains from me.

And so today… I live because He died. I have hope because He rose…and I will overcome because He lives inside of me. Thank you Jesus!

 

Greenville Grace

DR Missions Trip Support Opportunity

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On March 2-10, the Fourman Medical Team is taking a group from Grace, other area churches and students from Cedarville University to the Dominican Republic for a week long mission trip.  While there, they will be providing medical/dental and construction services to the people of the Dominican Republic and most importantly, proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ.

While it is too late to get involved by going on this trip, it’s not too late to support their medical and missionary efforts.  There are a number of ways you can support this trip, most importantly through prayer.  Please be praying that God would be working in the lives of those that will be ministered to, that He would open hearts to hear the truth.  Pray for those going that they would be willing servants of Jesus Christ and pray that all would be done to the glory of God!

The team will be taking much needed supplies with them and are asking for your help in obtaining them.  The following are items that you can donate to support their efforts:

For our Missionaries in the the DR:

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  • Disposable Diapers (sizes 1-5)
  • Baby Wipes
  • White wash cloths
  • Bear Creek Soup Packets (cheddar, potato cheese, navy bean, wild rice)

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  • Pie Filling (peach, cherry, blueberry, pumpkin)
  • Disposable “Swimmers” (sizes 1-5)
  • AA/AAA Batteries
  • Shelled Pistachios (Bob Nilsen’s favorite)

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For Ministry Donation:

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  • Shampoo
  • Hair ornaments
  • Colorful stickers
  • Small toys

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  • Soap
  • Combs/brushes
  • Spanish coloring books
  • Pencils/pens

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Medical Supplies for our teams:

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  • Antibiotic ointment
  • Wal-Mart Equate Tussin DM & Tussin CG
  • Tylenol Cold (Equate brand is great)
  • Tums
  • Reading glasses
  • Any strength prescription glasses
  • Avery 5160 Labels (30 per page)

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  • Anti-fungal creams
  • Tylenol/Advil
  • Pepto Bismal tablets
  • Zantac
  • Diaper rash ointment
  • Ziploc snack sized bags
  • Sharpies

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All donated items should be placed in the tubs (labeled ‘DR Trip Donations’) under the table in the narthex at Grace Church.  Deadline for donations is Sunday, February 26.

Greenville Grace

Diane Gayman’s Baptism Testimony

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It was about three years ago that God opened my eyes to His gospel and I repented and placed my trust in Jesus Christ.

I was actually baptized around ten years ago as a teenager.  At the time I was going through severe depression.  The gospel I heard preached to me then was a life enhancing gospel.  It was a message that was watered down in its content.  The problem with this gospel was that it could not save me.  It had only deceived me into thinking I was saved.  Whether I realized it at the time or not, I was very works righteous.  Inside I felt like a hypocrite because I could never be good enough.

It was three years ago when I listened to a sermon from a preacher on YouTube, talking about a God who was just and punished law breakers.  I realized I had broken God’s law.  The Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die, and then judgement (Heb. 9:27).  I was aware that I would have to give an account to God for my sins.  I also heard how this God who was both holy and just was also rich in mercy.  He sent His very own Son, the God Man Jesus the Christ into the world.  Jesus kept the laws that I broke and lived a life of obedience.  He willingly sacrificed Himself on the cross and died to pay for my sins.  The Bible says, “Greater love has no one than this, to lay down ones life for his friend” (John 15:13).  God poured out His wrath on Jesus so it didn’t have to be poured out on me.  Jesus not only died for my sins, but three days later rose again from the grave.  The Bible says, “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21).

It was God’s kindness that led me to repentance.

Ephesians 2:8-9 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”  It was this gospel of grace that saved me.  My sins were forgiven and God made me a new creature in Christ.  That is why I am being baptized.

Greenville Grace

Alex Dearing’s Baptism Testimony

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This is not the first time I will have been baptized.  I was baptized about 10 years ago but I feel like I didn’t know what it meant to be a Christian.  I know now that God doesn’t protect you from bad things but instead puts you through them to strengthen your relationship with him.

I grew up in a Christian home and always went to Sunday school and didn’t think much about heaven or hell.  I realize that we also live through a hell on this earth that is covered in sin.

When I was entering the sixth grade, I was at my weakest in my relationship with God, my parents split and new temptations had come to me.  After that terrible year I didn’t think anything was gonna get better and I wasn’t looking towards God for the answer.

During my first year at the Junior High, kids started getting into new things like parties where they relied on drugs and alcohol.  I avoided it because I was scared and I didn’t know what to do because I was alone.

Then something happened halfway through my 7th grade year, my cousin, Ike Sowers, invited me to youth group here at the church.  I didn’t know what to think but I thought I would give it a try to get him off my back.  I went and it was the first time I met Matt Strader who didn’t make a good first impression being a Michigan and Florida Gators fan.  If you ask anyone at youth (especially Matt or Justin Palmer) they will tell you that I was a complete spaz in Junior High and even my freshman year, but when I reached my sophomore year after going on a few trips with the youth, I realized that I shouldn’t go to youth to hang out with friends, I should go to let my faith and my relationship with Christ grow.

These past couple years have made a huge impact on my life, especially now that I feel called to ministry After getting into the Word with youth group, church, guys I meet with, and just myself reading and learning, then praying and asking God for guidance and wisdom, I realize that it isn’t anything that I do that saves me.  It is only because I believe that an all powerful, merciful God sent His only Son, born of a virgin to live the perfect life that I could not [live] and then sent Him to die and even die on the cross.

I know that I have a lot to learn and I want to learn everything I can about my Savior so that I can tell others that they don’t have to go through the suffering of hell and share with them that we can’t be perfect, but then again we don’t have to be because of Jesus.  God has asked us to do one thing and that is to make disciples of all nations which will bring glory and honor to Him.  I know that what I’m doing here today isn’t what is saving me but it is a way to show to all of you that I have trusted in Jesus Christ.  As I continue to grow in Christ, I will need each of you, the children of God, to remind me to be humble and keep me accountable.

“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of your who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male nor female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.  If you belong to Christ then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to promise.” – Galatians 3:26-29

Bob Nilsen

Dominican Republic Missions Update for 2011

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Dear Friends and Family,

What a blessing you have been to us this year. Anna and I have had an exciting year in 2011 in every way possible.

Medically, we were privileged to host the many medical teams that arrived to provide care and the gospel to people from all classes, but especially to the poor in the Dominican Republic. Our teamwork with the church planting team helps to gather crowds for the evangelism. We then return to the established churches to encourage the saints, time after time. It is Anna’s and my privilege to lead the medical evangelism team.

Full-Time Missionaries Include:

Bob and Anna Nilsen

Sadrac and Sarah Difren:  In addition to his Score work Sadrac has taken over his former church-(John 3:16 Church) as pastor when Miguel went home to be with the Lord.

Part Time Missionaries Include:

Dr. Tolentino

Tim and Evelyn Wolfe

Current Staff at the Clinic:

Jackie:  Nurse, assistant

Elsie:  Secretary, cleaning

Dr. Eugene and Fior Grazioli:  Optometrist

Volunteer Staff:

Dr. Fred Lang:  Ophthalmologist

Priscilla Strothers:  RN maternal child health

Facilities:

The Mike Fourman Medical/Dental Clinic located alongside the Score complex. This clinic is open weekly to the public. The clinic is finishing its fifth year of service to the local area.

Medical Clinic in the village of Monte Cristy. This is owned by the local Baptist Church, but we have been given use of it. We are currently using it for storage and to bring teams in 3 or 4 times a year. When medical missionary staffing increases we will open the clinic during the week on a regular basis.

Medical Storage Facility:  This is located in the village of Monte Cristy and is owned by the local Baptist church, although we have exclusive use of it. This is used for the storage of food and medical supplies, as well as other Score supplies, in order to improve the quality of nutrition and medical care in the DR, as well as to open doors for the gospel.

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The Nursing Home in the village of Monty Cristy:  This is owned by the local Baptist Church, but we send multiple teams there, treat patients on a monthly basis, schedule surgeries for other persons living there, supply them with medicine, and try to improve the general conditions of the facility.

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The Years Work at a Glance:

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  • We worked with 13 medical teams in the DR.
  • 1 surgical team came and operated in our area.
  • Anna and I worked with 5 different church teams that are totally separate from the other strictly medical teams.
  • 6 High Schools were involved in medical missions with us in 2011.
  • 3 different teams provided much needed Dental care under our direction.
  • In addition, 4 universities sent teams that labored with us in the DR.
  • In total, more than 577 persons were involved in medical missions with Score and Anna and I.
  • These teams treated more than 8,113 patients out in the villages.
  • The teams filled more than 32,460 prescriptions!
  • In what is becoming an expanding ministry, more than 517 pairs of glasses were distributed.
  • Spiritually, more than 1,342 professions of faith were made through the preaching of the gospel.
  • In addition, we provided the primary medical care for all the teams (nearly 4,000 persons) and missionaries in the DR.

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Mike Fourman Clinic (next to the Ministry Center)

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  • We saw 992 patients and filled: 3,698 prescriptions.
  • Maternal Child Health patients: 77
  • Eye patients seen in the clinic: 314 (We now have a fully equipped optical center!)
  • Anna assists with the pharmacy services at the clinic and continues to sew for various persons and other parts of the various ministries. Anna works with the Ladies Bible Study providing crafts for them to make. She makes hand sewn items to be sold to raise funds for the Lily House.

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I had the privilege of teaching or preaching more than 83 times in 2011. These included teaching in the Training Point church planting ministry with Score; as English pastor at the Missionary Baptist Church in Juan Dolio; in various other churches; and with the GAP programs in the Missionary Training Center.

Truly, we can do all things, through him that strengthens us’.

NEW DOORS TO BE OPENED; NEW LABORERS IN THE HARVEST; NEW CHALLANGES TO BE FACED; GOD’S KINGDOM TO BE ADVANCED:

PRE-FIELD MSSIONARIES: These are persons whom our Lord has laid it on the hearts to labor in His harvest in the Dominican Republic.

Bill and Sally Hilchey:  Language school and deputation. Duties yet to be assigned. Para medic trained.

Frank and Jo Ogle and family:  Deputation.  Duties yet to be assigned. Organization and translation.

In addition, Jackie, Elsie, and Dr Grazioli and his wife Fior are considering more full-time status with Score as missionaries.

Elsie will be heading our new ministry-Manos Limpias y Corazon Puro, the new cleaning ministry at the large public health hospital nearby.

Keila Fenton:  a long time friend and helper of the medical ministry of Score International recently graduated from Dental School and will soon join the staff of the medical evangelism ministry.

Priscilla Strothers:  Praying about a teaming up with the Training Point discipleship program and providing training for first reponders in multiple villages.

Priscilla Strothers and Jackie:  Praying about a breast screening training program in villages, again using the Training Point discipleship program as a partner. It has been one of our great pleasures to partner with Aby and Gladys and family in the discipleship programs.

In preparing for these many changes the Mike Fourman Clinic is undergoing a massive remodeling and transformation!

Additional Prayer requests

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  • Full-time medical doctor so we can expand to the next level medically, as well as, begin retraining Dominican doctors.
  • Full-time registered nurse so we can expand to the next level and begin training or retraining Dominican nurses.
  • Medical van
  • Medical trailer.
  • Remodeling of the storage building.

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Please pray, as we look forward to future ministry advances. 2012 promises to be an exciting year in the fields of the Lord!

Anna and I are thankful for our Lord’s faithfulness through you in 2011. Our current support level stands at 65%. This coming year is our 40th anniversary and we are planning on spending 2 additional months in the US (total-August thru November). Please pray as we maintain two residences for 4 months at the end of 2012. In Addition, because we lead this ministry we incur additional expenses in insuring it is maintained. We would love to be used by our God to open other countries for medical evangelism as well. All of this comes thru the gracious provision of our Father and your supply.

Please consider supporting one of the missionaries, by name, so that we can either stay on the field or others may arrive on the field and continue the harvest in Jesus Name.

Bob and Anna Nilsen

Bob Nilsen
Director of Medical Evangelism
Score International
Dominican Republic

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New Dominican Medical Ministry

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It is with great joy that Anna and I announce to you the formation and launching of a new aspect of Score’s medical ministry here in the Dominican Republic.

All hospitals world wide experience infection rates due to microorganisms that exist inside the hospitals.  Patients enter the health care facility and contact these microbes and then are even sicker than when they entered, these are called nosicomial infections.

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Given the lack of resources in personnel and finances that exist in the public health care system in the DR, despite the best efforts of the staff, infections are a continuing problem, as the are in the US.  The amount of microorganisms that are being passed around from staff to patients, patient to patient, and patient to staff needs to be reduced in order to improve the overall health care in the country.

By God’s grace we are launching a new medical ministry called:  Manos Limpio, Corazon Puro.  English:  Clean hands, pure heart.  This is taken from Psalm 24.

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Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?  He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. – Psalm 24:3-4

Phase One

We have organized a volunteer force, utilizing local San Pedro area churches, to enter the Antonio Musa Public Health Hospital in San Pedro to come along side the staff there and clean the hospital ona weekly basis.  Elsie, Dr. Tolentino, and myself presented the new ministry recently and it was accepted enthusiastically and completely by all of the administration and department heads. Score medical is providing the supervision and the churches are supplying the staffing to simply clean the floors, chairs, beds, equipment, walls, (all the normal stuff patients and families contact) on a weekly basis.  We will be utilizing disinfectants and good ole soap and water in order to reduce the microorganism load and the resultant infections that occurs in this facility.  We all remember the ‘candy stripers’ utilized in many of our hospitals, our volunteers will wear a covering smock that Anna is making to identify them with the phrase:  “Manos limpio (on one side) Corazon puro (on the other side).

American teams can help by bringing disposable supplies like dishwashing gloves (small, medium, and large)(we’re going to need a lot of these), scrub brushes (plastic with a handle for scrubbing beds, lots), toilet brushes, Mister Clean………., new empty spray bottles (20-24 oz size), a few putty knives,  small fiberous dish scrubers, etc. We also need protective medical eye glasses to use while spraying, as well as, disposible masks for spraying.   Cleaning cloths for wiping are needed also (lots of these also).  We can also use anticeptic wipes to clean surfaces (in bulk containers, not individually wrapped).

We will need a half dozen or so brand new plastic garden sprayers to spray the walls and beds with as well.

With a short training class just before, US teams will be allowed to participate in the new ministry of cleaning in the hospital as well.  The new ministry will involve no direct patient care, only cleaning, however spiritual ministry is part of the process.

The projected start date for Phase One is spring of 2012.

Phase Two

Each Dominican church will provide a ‘spiritual encourager’-chaplain in our terminology.  Phase two will begin at the same time as phase one.  We expect to have dozens of cleaning volunteers and multiple chapains in this hospital on a weekly basis involving dozens of churches.

We expect to begin in the spring of 2012.  We need the time between now and then to get organized, train the volunteers, and gather the supplies.

Phase Three

Phase three involves hand washing supplies, as that continues to be an issue in the DR, US, and  around the world.  We hope to finalize these plans next year with implementation in 2013.  Although, MUSA personnel requested we begin this one first!!  It’s that big a problem.  This will involve the installation of antiseptic dispensers in all patient care areas of the hospital and then keeping them refilled on a weekly basis.

Phase Four

Phase four will involve replacing bed mattresses with new ones and will begin at the same time as phase three or shortly after.  MUSA again requested we begin this immediately as well!

This entire plan was enthusiastically endorsed by the staff and leadership of the hospital.  MUSA has a service area of over 2 million people and is the largest hospital on the eastern side of the island.  They are eager for us to begin.

Elsie Hodge, our secretary and cleaning person, is my assistant in this new ministry and when fully operational will be financed, run, and staffed by all Dominicans.

There will be an initial financial outlay that is not covered by the Dominican Churches and we ask that you pray about this as well.  There are many new pieces of equipment and initial supplies, etc.

Please pray for this new ministry as the state of the health care here is very poor, despite the efforts of the Dominican hospital staff.  We want to come along side them, not in a critical manner, but in Christian love and service and improve the health care of the country.  The Dominican volunteers will be improving their own health care by reducing the infections in a hospital they themselves will be using.  They will also serve as an example of Christian love for others who are hurting.  This will also provide an additional ministry outlet for many individuals in the churches.
The amount of organization required by us is immense (as the number of volunteers could as many as a hundred!) and time consuming, please pray that our Lord will by glorified thru this new gospel effort.

Bob and Anna

Bob Nilsen is Director of Medical Evangelism at SCORE International, Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic.

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The EDGE: Don’t Waste Your Sports

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This morning at The EDGE, we watched C.J. Mahaney’s message titled, “Don’t Waste Your Sports.” C.J. starts out by looking at 1 Corinthians 10:31, “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” He explains that sports are a gift from God and as such should be played to His glory.

Don’t Waste Your Sports is for athletes, parents, and coaches. It provides a biblical worldview of sports so that we don’t waste this gift. “I had the opportunity to glorify God in my sports,” C.J. writes, “and I fumbled it. I wasted my sports. You have the opportunity, by the grace of God, not to waste yours.”

If you were not able to be with us this morning, wish to view it again or share with other athletes, coaches and parents, we have provided the video below.

 

Don’t Waste Your Sports from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo.

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Help the victims of sexual explotation

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About Gracehaven

This is the ministry that our brothers at Veritas are supporting through the “She Has a Name” campaign. They could be helped big time with your vote!

Gracehaven seeks through Christian love to provide shelter and rehabilitation to girls under the age of 18 who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation, and to raise awareness among young women about the issue of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) in order to educate and equip them so that they can avoid becoming victims themselves. We are in the process of completing the renovation of a house outside Columbus Ohio where we desire to establish a comprehensive integrated long term rehabilitation program for girls in Ohio who have been victimized by domestic minor sex trafficking. We are seeking this award in order to be able to hire and train the staff necessary to open our house.



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