Puerta Plata – A Day of Relaxation and Reflection

Hey Everyone! It’s Cole and Amanda back with more stories from the DR from Thursday! Bright and early, the guys woke up again and got a card workout in up on the roof. Then our first start to the day was breakfast with our wonderful cooks Maria and Sandra. They made us pancakes and bacon!! …

Our Last Day in the Bateys

Hey family and friends! This is Sami and Em! First thing’s first: At 6:00 am, a few of us were up and at ‘em working out. We had an intense HIIT circuit that had some of us crawling away from the basketball court, haha! After the workout, Kevin gave his testimony to us. It was …

Tuesday in the Bateys!

We started off our day with a cardio workout at 6 am at the church basketball court in Batey Neuve. This was followed by breakfast and devotional time. This allowed us to learn more about the importance of mentorship and how we are called to mentor others towards Christ. This was a great way to …

Still on the Way to Batey Nueve…

(Note: This was written on Monday night. We were not able to post the last couple of days while we were distributing Sawyer water filters, so we’re going to post a few times today so you know what we’ve been up to!) Just messin’, 14 hours later we have arrived to the beautiful village of …

Dios te bendiga

Hey everyone! Justice and Syd are here today to talk about the highlights of our day. We had a packed day today, but are thankful for each moment we had. We started off the morning with a nice, but challenging, body weight workout that consisted of using a deck of cards. The workout was 109 …

We made it to Santiago!

Hey everyone! We made it to Santiago! This is Brooklyn and Joe and we will take you through day 2 of our DR trip. We arrived and were settled at the GO Ministries Medical Center, bright and early, at 4am. Our team had breakfast and met Brett, who is our GO Ministries sports leader. For …

It is here!!

Hello family and friends, it is here! Welcome along to our 2024 seed Dominican Republic trip!! This is Ruby and Andrew and we are going to walk you through our first travel day. First bright and early we awoke and arrived to the one and only Devos parking lot to feast on some good ole …

The last day(s!)

By Maddie McCreery, Elisa Melville and Dan Romano Once we got back from the resort Monday night, we waited for dinner by playing Mafia, a fun group game but always causes light-hearted feuding amongst our competitive group. Jean Carlos and Alguiris, two GO students and members of the baseball team on the complex, joined us …

A day of rest.

By Ali DeWeerd, Brady Swinehart, Zac Carlson Sunday morning, we had the amazing opportunity to attend a church service at the church we visited in The Hole the day before.  It was a super unique experience to get to see how that church worships, and be in community with everyone during the service. This Sunday …

A Trip to the Hole.

By Eric Hoogland, Paolo Alcala, and Emma Dekker Today we started off the morning with some delicious breakfast (once again) before heading off to the GO Ministries compound to help out with different sports camps. We split up into two groups, one that went and played basketball and one that went and played soccer. At …