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A Taste of our Ministry
By Jac | May 19, 2010
Anyone who has had the chance to come and visit us knows what a need there is here. Well, we have just had our ASL Circuit Assembly, and we attended the English Circuit Assembly and have some interesting facts to share with you about the preaching of God’s Kingdom in the Dominican Republic.
- There are now 3 English congregations in DR. One is in Santo Domingo, one in Santiago, and one in Puerto Plata.
- They are currently assessing the needs for foreign language groups in Italian, German, Russian, French. People are particularly needed in English, Spanish (in some areas) and in Creole.
- There is one Chinese congregation, and the first man from that congregation was baptized last year. Their territory is the entire island.
- 1545 were baptized last year.
- The English District Convention will be held here June 18-20.
And on the ASL front
- 1529 Deaf attended the Memorial of Jesus’ death around the country.
- There are 15 ASL congregations.
- There are 15 ASL groups.
- 7 of those 15 could be a congregation with just one elder.
- There are 6 pre-groups where they are currently interpreting.
- ASL has 182 pioneers, 21 of those are deaf, and one of those is a special pioneer.
- There are 37 ministerial servants in ASL, 8 of those are deaf.
As you can see, there is much to do in the Dominican Republic in the way of announcing God’s Kingdom. Here are a few pictures from:
That last one is me crashing on a progressive Bible study. Anton conducts the study with the boyfriend while they sit in the two chairs and I sit with the girlfriend on the bed. This day I sat down, and just fell right over, it had been such a LONG preaching day. She grabbed my camera and snapped a shot of me sleeping on the job!
UPDATE: The last student, where I am laying down, who is also featured in the Progressive Teaching post, has moved out of her boyfriend’s place and is hoping to start preaching soon!
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