Kristin
Wolford
Missionary to the Dominican Republic
Year-End Report 2017
Praises!!
Wonderful things that God has done in 2017.
·
Evan Isaac was born on April 9, 2017 – happy and
healthy!
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Five new youth joined our team in 2017. Each one has been a GREAT addition to the
team. We can see how their presence has
made our team stronger.
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Our youth team ministered to children and
families in six neighborhoods throughout the year, hosted a special
parent-child day, responded to needs after Hurricane Irma, hosted a hygiene
clinic and began to visit parents and families in their homes each week after
class.
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Four groups, for a total of 22 individuals,
completed the discipleship book , Foundations,
and are now equipped to begin discipling others with this book.
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Three churches we support completed the study of
the book of Luke using the Community Bible Study materials.
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Three mission teams visited our ministry: Bethel
University, San Diego (October), Our Savior’s Lutheran Church (November), and Resurrection
Lutheran Church (August).
·
Repaired and added a room to a home in Santo
Domingo, provided a donation towards the rebuilding of another home in
Consuelo, provided a donation towards new chairs for a new church building in
Santo Domingo, provided a donation to build a fence around a new school
building in El Valiente, donated food for hurricane relief.
·
Our largest group ever, 42 individuals, attended
the Global Leadership Summit in Santo Domingo.
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We started the process of legal incorporation of
our ministry in the Dominican Republic with the name of Ministerio Ramas Vivas Internacional, which means Living Branches
Ministry International.
Plans, goals and prayer requests for 2018
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Rent/buy a larger building for our youth team in
Hato Mayor.
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Complete the incorporation of our ministry.
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Increase our monthly support by $800/month by
finding 6-12 individuals who will invest $50-$200 a month in our ministry. Faithful monthly support allows us to make
plans and add programs with confidence because we know that the money to
support the new ministries will be there each month.
·
Be intentional about supporting leaders in new
communities – sending two leaders to supervise, encourage and guide new teams
twice a month.
·
Be intentional about getting to know and support
each individual on the ministry team – will do individual meetings with each
individual quarterly to listen, set goals, provide feedback & pray
together.
·
Develop our new ministry to adolescents (13-17
years) using workshops (crafts, wood working, music, English, etc) and weekly
Bible study.
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Host two new discipleship classes.
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Start a small business selling the crafts &
sewing projects we’ve learned to make.
We praise God for what He has done, is doing and will do in and thorough our ministry.
Thanks to each of you who have prayed, visited or donated to make this ministry possible.
You are an important part of our team. May God bless you more.
