Important Information and Updates:
New Board Members
Our team is excited to welcome Kristie Sidwall to our team. (Board of Directors). Kristie is the Senior Ministry Director of Masterworks Dance Studio (YFC) in Winnipeg and has been on a number of D.R. trips with her older dancers (teen girls leadership program). She is married to Kyle and has 2 sons.
Deen Krol is a committed Christian businessman from Vancouver Island, married with 2 sons. He is a partner in a landscaping company and also active in his church. Deen has been on 5 build trips and is well acquainted with the ministry in Arroyo Seco. He usually brings 3-4 men to help build to give them a vision to help the less fortunate.
New Projects Delivered though DVI:
Arroyo Seco Land Project
“Prayer mountain”
Our ministry is working on acquiring this hill (the Dominicans spend much time praying on this “mountain” ) and the surrounding land and praying for strategy and Dominican partners to develop the land.
Garden
In 2020 we got possession of 1 acre of land behind the pastors house to develop for the ministry. Dominicans collaborated to till the land and plant vegetables. They had to depend on God to send the rain, and were able to yield some to eat and some to sell for the ministry. The village well does not have enough water for this project.
New Well
We are looking forward to a construction team from Vancouver Island to help with the new well, including building a well house to protect it. The well is necessary in order to have a successful garden. The well house will have solar panels on the roof and inverter batteries inside that will power the well. There will be pipes laid that transport the water to our fields, and to future buildings we will build on that land.
Colegio Cristiana Divina Misión y Iglesia
Our school and church in Arroyo Seco is one of our primary ministries. They provide school classes for the primary grades, meals, clean drinking water for 90 students.
“Education is the key to breaking the relentless cycle of poverty.”
Colegio Cristiana Divina Misión y Iglesia
Our school and church in Arroyo Seco is one of our primary ministries. They provide school classes for the primary grades, meals, clean drinking water for 90 students.
“Education is the key to breaking the relentless cycle of poverty.”
Child Sponsorship
Learn moreBuild Groups
DVI is a Christian based ministry and this is a great way for church groups to reach out to the world with God’s love. However you do not have to belong to a Christian organization or church to join these build groups. We encourage couples to come and work too, or do a vacation/work combo. It will change your life as you help others.
Leadership Teaching Retreat
DVI’s Leadership Teaching Retreat is having a significant impact in the Sosúa region. Every May enthusiastic leaders from many churches along the north coast of Puerto Plata province gather and are bused to a simple retreat center (camp) in La Vega.
University Fellowship
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Helping the community. Yearly trips at the end of January.
(Formerly Vacation With A Purpose)
BUILD AND MISSION GROUP 2022
We were surprised and blessed to have a brave group come and
help us with the next projects. These consisted of digging a well and building a well house, building a recording studio and working on the garden which had been
planted last year. Five people from our Team of 7 came on the trip and we also invited 2 men, John Krueger and Cavy Braun, to come and advise us as a
Team. As well, 8 others from Winnipeg and Vancouver Island joined
us to help build.
