On the Friday night after we had gotten into the Dom. Rep. we were scheduled to minister at this little church. It was a Friday night, not a normal church night yet the church was packed. It was in a typical neighborhood with a little bar down the street. The first year interns did a good job of sharing their faith and we got to minister to people which is always a thrill. My heart was touched by this pastor pictured with his wife. He and his wife live in a small room behind the church. You can see that church is just a stick structure with corrugated tin around the outside and nothing inside. In fact, a recent missions group tore down the structure and built this tin building. This pastor has a job working on a road construction crew, and pastors after work and on weekends. He and his wife also take in abandoned children and raise them in their home. The real shocker came when we were invited back to the pastor’s quarters and saw that he and his wife lived on a dirt floor with a portion of the room partitioned by a sheet for their bathroom. You will be happy to know that HOF is concreting their floor and building them a new bathroom. That is the best $500 we have ever spent.
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