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On the field Day
3 – Oh, what a night!
“Ha Fan” (霞芬),
a sister of the Mandarin church, took us to San Pedro de
Macoris to visit the Chinese there. On the way, we
visited her fruit farm. San Pedro is about 1 hour from
where we stay in Santo Domingo. After lunch, we split
into 3 groups for visitation. There are not too many
Chinese there. Basically they all run “fried chicken”
stores. (about 24 stores there). They open from 10 a.m.
till late in the night (some of them even up to 2 a.m. )
We found some of them willing to listen to the gospel.
We also came across a woman who moved here from
Venezuela and she had attended the Chinese C&MA church
there. However, we could only visit about 1/3 of the
stores there because we needed to go back to Santo
Domingo to prepare for the night gathering and we would
be hitting the rush hour. In fact, it took us 2 hours to
get back to our hotel!
Tonight we had the gathering in a different place – a
sisters’ (Ah Sheung阿嫦)
restaurant in Chinatown. Even though we were told that
it’s not too safe to be in Chinatown late at night since
there had been a couple of robbery incidents happened
recently, we decided to go, trusting that our almighty
God will provide us protection. Since tonight is the
last night in Santo Domingo, we changed our plan to
adopt part of the Saturday Fiesta program for Santiago
to make it an evangelical event.
Sister “Ah
Sheung” (阿嫦)
had prepared dinner for the event. We found not only the
restaurant was beautifully decorated, but the food were
excellent, especially the mango fruit. Like Sai said,
it’s “from heaven”! Then more people came to join us for
the dinner. It’s a good opportunity to talk to them and
get to know them. We were also excited to see a couple
of familiar faces who we knew from Santiago and now they
moved to Santo Domingo.
After dinner we started the
program. Bonnie & David led the singspiration, and
people enjoyed the singing so much. Then followed by
Celine’s testimony. People were really touched by her
sharing (from a number of ladies feedback after
meeting). After more singing, we did a drama. People
loved it! Then Christina gave a short message and made
the calling. 3 people accepted Christ to be their
Lord & savior. PTL! Everyone of our team was so
excited.
After the meeting, some people
exchanged email addresses, Skype accounts and even
phone numbers with STM team. What’s more, a sister of
the Mandarin church offered to start a Bible study with
the Cantonese sisters (esp. the new believers) every
Thursday night in the recent future. We praise God for
His provision ! By the time we came back to hotel, it’s
already past 1 a.m. but the excitement of our teammates
was still there. We concluded the day with thanksgiving
& praise to our God as we witnessed His grace of mercy
on us and the people here. We thank for :-
- the sisters’ hospitality, the nice meeting place &
good food
- God’s protection and travel mercy particularly at late
night in a place not so safe as people think. - for 3
new believers & the follow up care offered by a sister
- the willingness of the people to come to listen to
God’s message in late night where robbery happened
recently. Lord
we thank you for the night and oh what a night in Santo
Domingo! May Your name continue to be spread over the
place & be glorified! Amen.
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