miguel and jennie

Perhaps this is an introduction for some of you. For some of you, maybe we've been able to meet you on a work team that has recently come to the Dominican Republic. Miguel and I work behind the scenes in the DR alongside Makarios....kind of like the people "behind the curtain." I'm ashamed to say that Sharla has gently urged us to contribute to the blog before on several occasions, and its just now that I'm taking up the duty. I have to be honest in saying that we're not very good at this kind of thing and it took my little brother going to Iraq (not part of the military), and being able to read his blog to inspire me to start one as well. I now realize what an important form of communication it has become to post blogs every now and again. So we start out introducing ourselves in this blog with hopes of more entries to come. Miguel is Dominican and we were married at the end of this past January. I've lived here in the Dominican Republic for between 7 and 8 years, and have known Sharla since 1998 when we were both teaching at Santiago Christian School here in the DR. I met Miguel about 6 years later while living in the batey of Caraballo. We do various things for Makarios, and usually each new day is pretty different from the previous one. I do a lot of running around paying bills, price checking on supplies, buying needed ministry materials, taking people to the hospital and making sure they get proper medical care, managing finances DR side, etc. While Miguel also does various things such as teaching electricity classes, Makarios house and vehicle maitenance, and we both have taught a Bible class in a little campo called Arroyo Leche over the past year. (Right now we are on summer break but will start up again in the fall). What has been occupying Miguel's days recently is managing and working on the school house project in Tamarindo. Hopefully it will be up and running by this coming September. So that's it in a nutshell! Post comments if you have any more questions about either of us! Until next time, Ciao.