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This weeks marks the halfway point of our committed time in the Dominican Republic. We haven’t quite processed what this means, or what our next steps are. As a halfway mark, we’ve come “home” for Christmas! We have been greeted with icy cold and cold ice. We haven’t differentiated between the two yet. We haveContinue reading ““Home” for Christmas”

Collectively, as a family, our batteries were nearing empty by June. We felt the weight of a year of online education, the loneliness of missing family, and the chaos of our own heightened emotions mixed with those of our boys. Daily life here is a much longer process than in Canada. There are many variablesContinue reading “Summer in the DR”

We have completed our first year in the Dominican Republic as teachers!!!!!!! Doulos’ mission is to educate and equip servant leaders, through Expeditionary Learning and Christian discipleship, to impact the Dominican Republic. This year we have tried our best to uphold this mission through online learning. We have had small glimpses of in-person Doulos, asContinue reading “One Year!!!”

Hello again, from the DR! Our weather is getting hotter and hotter, as summer months are approaching. We usually reach 30 degrees by mid morning. We are still online, and will continue teaching online till the end of the year. It was relieving for us to get this new, as we can now plan accordinglyContinue reading “March :)”

This week at Doulos we have been working hard at taking as much training and as many courses as we can, supplied by the Ministry of Education, to allow us to teach in person! Last week all of our Spanish speaking staff participated in a 20 hours, online course, named “Todos Abordo” (All Aboard). TheContinue reading “This Week at Doulos: April 22”

Our ministry campus is beautiful. We fell in love with Doulos right away. It has felt very disappointing to move overseas to sit online, but it has also been INCREDIBLE. We’ve met SO MANY incredible people, and we’ve learned so much about Dominican culture. I’m trying desperately never to close my fists, to always haveContinue reading “A Little more about Doulos”

Tell your mountain about your God. I read this, thought about it, and scrolled on. It stuck. Tell your mountain about your God. I read it again and again, wondering if maybe it meant tell your God about your mountain. I do that. Daily. I tell my God about my mountain(s). I have hundreds ofContinue reading “Tell your mountain about your God”

Friends! As we begin to think about next year, we are praying, hoping, and assuming we will be in person! Because we follow the American school schedule, we only have until the end of May left of this year. I am working hard to sort through classroom supplies, take inventory, and prepare for next year.Continue reading “Kindergarten”

Highlights: This month we downsized houses and moved just outside of town! This was SUCH AN AMAZING decision for us. God has tremendously looked out for us. We have friends who live just outside of town in an area surrounded by mountains and fields. We have spent lots of time with them, and in theirContinue reading “December”

November has come and gone, and it is still so warm here! We can hardly believe we’ve been here for nearly half a year. November was filled with the theme of Relational. We spent our month integrating the Biblical concept of being Relational into our curriculum, online classes, and events. We hosted a week ofContinue reading “November”