Barahona, Dominican Republic Missions

From 1999 to 2005, ARBC has worked with a church in the Invivienda community of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic helping Pastor Marthyn and his church build a building and minister to their community.  We served under the direction of retired International Mission Board Missionaries Paul & Peggy Siebenmann.

Franklin Rodriguez, one of the Dominican men that we had worked with in Santo Domingo, felt God calling him to be a missionary in the Barahona area. The small town of Barahona is about 3 hours southwest of Santo Domingo and one hour east of the Haiti border.   In early 2007, Pastor Franklin and his new wife, Benita, moved to Barahona and invited us to help him the following summer with his work there. 

Since the first trip to Barahona in 2007, our ministries have included:

• Two church services one meeting in a home and one meeting under trees in a fishing community
• A medical clinic staffed by a Dominican cardiologist, pediatrician & dentists
• Bible studies
• Children's activities
• Block parties
• Caricatures
• Couples banquet
• Firemen's breakfast
• Businessmen's luncheon
• Re-tining homes
• Building walls and roofs around latrines
• Painting homes and the baseball dugout
• Sewing dresses and shorts for the children
• Youth rallies that include a scavenger hunt
• Conducting baseball, basketball & volleyball clinics

Medical Clinic	Putting tin on a house
The church in the country	Afternoon Bible Study
Church at the ballfield	Prayer walking
	To read the mission trip blog go to: http://barahonamissions.blogspot.com To see more photos of our trip go to:  http://barahona.shutterfly.com
Re-painting the verse on the dugout

If you are interested in being part of the 2010 mission team, contact webmaster@arbcgarland.com.

ARBC is working with the church in Barahona, Dominican Republic to help kids.  This project is called Niños Para Cristo or Kids for Christ.  To find out how you can sponsor a child, go to:  www.ninosparacristo.org