Interns - Session Dos!

Four new interns arrived at the beginning of July to join Emily and Paul and have hit the ground running (Picture L-R: Catie Houser, Jennifer Domingue, Sarah Haugh, Sarah Penn)! After some orientation, community building, 27 Waterfalls and a retreat, they were in charge of developing and leading school. Sarah H. and Jennifer (both UT students) proposed a co-project with art, and therefore the theme of school was discovering the beauty of God's creation through art. Each day of school, two or three days of creation were discussed and portrayed through various art projects such as watercolors, vegetable stamping, chalk, and other mediums. Now, Jenn and Sarah are going to do follow-up "workshops" with the older kids that have showed the most potential/interest in art.

Catie is our UT pre-nursing intern and is assisting Cara at the school with tending to minor injuries, taking kids to the local clinic and a couple of more serious cases to the hospital. She is also observing/researching ways to better Makarios' knowledge and treatment of minor injuries at the school.

Sarah P. is one of our Pennsylvania Biblical University interns and is developing curriculum for school to teach some basic business and entrepreneurship concepts to the oldest class. Our other PBU intern, Paul Weitzel, with the continued participation of the interns, is continuing the development of relationships through summer Kids Clubs at the Wharf (downtown barrio of Puerto Plata) and a village behind the Mak house that we so affectionately call Poopie's Place due to one of the little boys named being Poopie.

Emily Falk, our full-summer Harvard intern, is continuing with her sociology research as well as building beautiful relationships with the children at school and the wharf, our neighbors at Poopie's, and of course the staff.

Your prayers are greatly appreciated as the interns have only a couple weeks left in the country and with each other and seek to finish strong for His glory. These are definitely some of the most flexible, joyful and passionate people I've known in quite some time and hope you are as honored as I am o their work with Makarios.