A Glimpse at the Wolfe's week

June 5--We loaded three large trucks from the warehouse in Mt. Cristi this morning. It was all medical supplies for the Baptist hospital in San Cristobol and the public hospital in San Pedro. There are still supplies for the Baptist Hospital in La Romana to be loaded. We were informed today that the cargo with food arrived in port this day.

June 6--The Dudley group (Dwayne Bedingfield and Jim Price) arrived from Ga. The team includes medical surgeons, construction and evangelism persons for this next week. The surgeons will work in the Good Samaritan Hospital in La Romana and the rest of the group will work in Mt. Cristi.

June 7--We took the entire team to Jumbo to purchase food. They bought enough for 35 families. Pastor Manny met us and helped while I took the treasurer and we exchanged dollars for pesos at 34 to 1. We took all of the food to Mt. Largo, a poor village where Manny is planting a church with some good success. There was a brief presentation of the gospel to around 70 adults and many children. The bags of food were passed out. The group also brought new clothing; the young girls all received new dresses and the boys received shorts and pants. Every young child in the village received new clothing. This village will be one to receive weekly food distribution in our larger program, which will start in a few weeks.

June 8--This morning we take the construction and evangelism team to church at Mt. Cristi while the medical team will go to the hospital in La Romana to prepare for a week of surgeries.

As things got busy, Tim was not able to keep the daily journal up, so he recapped the entire week:

I spent the week with the Dudley GA group while Evelyn spent the week with the CMMA medical group. We started each morning at Mt. Cristi doing construction and evangelism in the church with the children. It was an extremely busy and productive week. This team spent thousands of dollars on materials for MC. We did a lot of drainage, concrete, electrical and carpentry work. At the end of the week they bought a new washing machine for the casa de ancianas, bags and bags of food, had a new water drainage well dug, purchased tons of fill gravel and some tools. It was a tremendous effort that transformed the bathhouse area and cleaned up all of the water sanitation problems that we had. The casa now has two new bath and shower rooms and a safe, clean area to walk with no standing water or place for mosquitoes to breed.

There were many small and large miracles this week. One was with the electric current where God allowed that no one was electrocuted from a mistake that was made. Another was the weather; we completed the project working through two afternoons of torrential downpours. The first one allowed us to see where additional improvements should be made, the last one rewarded us with the good results. One morning we had a flat tire on the bus.

The evangelism team reached many children and they had a wonderful time teaching and playing. One of the men who worked with was saved; he had been talked to for a year by other groups and this day he made a decision to follow Christ. This team went above and beyond anything that has been done in the past; their hard work, generosity and sacrifice was exemplary.
I was not with the surgical team in La Romana but they performed at least 16 surgeries per day saving and helping many people. I heard many wonderful comments on the effort of the group of 12. Everyone is making plans to return next year.
We were all treated to a concert last night at SCORE by the group Wings of Mercy; they are an outstanding group.