Thursday, Day 4 (from the coach)

Today was baseball free. In the morning, we loaded up the bus and headed to Jumbo (a supermarket) to buy food for families in a sugarcane village. Each of the boys gave $10 of their own money, the adults chipped in some too and FCA and Global Baseball provided even more. In the end, we purchased $300 (about 9000 pesos) worth of food; enough to feed 22 families, each for 3 to 4 days. Each family received a bag of rice, bag of beans, coffee, three cans of tuna, cooking oil, chicken buillion and salt.

When we arrived at the village, the boys played soccer and basketball with the local kids. As you can see by the picture below, the kids in the village loved having the visitors. After playing for a while, we unloaded the food and met in their local church. As you can see, the pews were full. Spencer gave his testimony and then Rodney Clingan presented the gospel using the Evangecube. At some later time, I’ll provide a description on the blog. At the end, two of the village adults accepted the gospel.

After the village, it was back to SCORE for lunch and then into Santo Domingo for site seeing, shopping, and an authentic Dominican Republic dinner. It was fried chicken (awesome), frijoles (rice and beans), avocado salad and fried plantains. Most everyone really enjoyed it. One of the claims to fame for Santo Domingo is that that Christopher Columbus settled there. The picture below is in front of a status of him and the oldest church in the new world. It was established in the 1500’s. We walked around and also saw the house that he and his wife lived in.


We made it back to SCORE around 7:00pm and the boys headed for the pool (as usual). Tomorrow, we visit a local orphanage and play baseball in the afternoon.