Katia Alvarado flew into Santo Domingo from Mexico on June 3 and will spend the summer in the DR leading these teams. She's the ideal person as she's bilingual in English and Spanish, and knows STEM well -- she worked in our office while a student at Bethany College of Missions and led a number of teams for us.Now that she’s graduated, Katya and some friends are setting up an evangelistic coffee shop in Guadalajara. Her church has released her to work with STEM for the summer, and we’re very grateful to have her!
In February Katya traveled to the DR with Jim and Cherie Levin to set up plans for the summer relief teams. We’ll be working with a church-plant from a church we’ve already partnered with in Sabana Perdida on the edge of Santo Domingo. The daughter church is in a very poor community. As usual it’s the poorest who are hardest hit by disasters like hurricanes. The goal is to build them some much-needed latrines, at the same time as building up God’s church. (Can you imagine a place without even this basic necessity of life?)
Watch this space for more news of our summer relief teams to the DR!
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