2015 Mission Team of 18 Selected!

Trinity Cares International has selected its 2015 Mission Team that will go to the Dominican Republic in June of this year. Team 2015 will provide Medical, Dental and Construction help.  2015 will have the biggest team yet at 18 individuals including 5 of our Youth!  MARK YOUR CALENDAR's: Saturday April 11th at 5:30 will be our annual dinner-show fundraiser.  Always a great time! Please come out and support Team 2015! Every dollar raised goes directly to supporting Team TCI! Thank you for your continued partnership with us.....

Mission Completed!

13 team members and 3 major projects, all complete!  Praise be to God as he kept us healthy and strong through the entire week.  Kudos to every team member for a job well done.  I was so proud to be part of this work.  A shout out of thanks to everyone who gave of their time, finances and prayer for us to be able to make this happen.  The work we did will literary changes lives.  JUNE 2015!
Are you in?  Stay tuned until this Sunday July 13th as TCI 2014 Mission Team gives a report of all God did this mission trip as well as presents a video recap.

Friday Day 5 TCI Mission Team

Yesterday we had a word earful time reconnecting with our sponsored children. Some TCI Mission Team members it was the first time meeting their sponsored child. It was a wonderful experience for all of us. 

Last night at Mt Zion we showed the movie Jesus. The community all came and filled the church. Afterwards Pastor and the church set up a celebration party and everyone who worked with us this week was invited. There was music, pizza and other foods. It was like someone got married. Mt Zion presented Trinity Church with a beautiful plaque of appreciation of our partnership. There were many tears of joy of what God did this week in the next step of our partnership. Pastor said many churches support them by providing for them in different ways but very few come to build friendships, relationships that last a lifetime. We officially have a sister church, our extended family. See you all soon as we leave today. 

Sharon kills Fred throws him off the balcony

We have had fun with Sharon and Laura with their adventures with Fred here in the DR. Things went south and Laura said Sharon threw Fred off the balcony. Now some claim Fred was already dead before Sharon threw him off the balcony but that I guess we will never now. It would probably just be probable cause evidence at this point. Team TCI is conducting an investigation into Fred's demise. Fred patrolled the grounds in and around Sharon and Laura's room all week. He actually keep their room bug free. If you haven't figured out yet Fred was the pet Gecco. We were all sad to see Fred go but his service to Laura and Sharon will never be forgotten. All charges against Sharon have been dropped.

Construction Crew Gives a New Floor to a Family

Todays highlight was the Construction Team pouring a floor for a local family consisting of a Mom and five children.  This was a really practical work today providing a very basic need for this family as the home had a dirt floor.  The guys had joy doing it in spite of the hot sun.  The medical team continued to see patients and had wonderful stories which I will save some for them to share with you.  I will share one as an elderly gentlemen named Juan came in to the clinic holding his tattered Bible.  His blood pressure was very high so the team had him wait for about 10-15 minutes before they took it again.  While Juan was waiting Linda saw the man squinting to read his Bible.  With that, she grabbed a pair of the glasses we brought to bring to him.  He can SEE!  He started praising God and thanking him for his provision.  Tomorrow we visit San Pedro de Macoris and our sponsored children from Compassion International. Hard to believe the week is almost over but God has given us many opportunities to love and serve here in the Dominican Republic.

Day 3 TCI 2014 Mission Team

Day Three and the bakery walls are taking shape. The construction team is working hard in the hot Dominican sun and doing a great job.  Each team member is making friends working alongside their Dominican brothers. Pastor Julio explained to me that the community has been preparing weeks for us to come and was so excited for the opportunity to work alongside us!  The security team were mounting cameras and actually starting to test the equipment.  The monitor, power supply and cables are all run. Tomorrow the rest of the cameras are to be mounted and calibrated.  The medical team continues to do a bang up jog taking care of the community medical needs.  Today we went over to Consillito a Batey about 15 minutes from Consuelo.  The team saw many little children today as mothers brought the kids to see the doctors.  Kudos to Sharon and Laura for an awesome job today as they hung in there until 5PM in the hot sun!  Photo album is posted to Facebook to see more information.  Here are a few of todays children.

Day Two 89 patients

Day two was great as we settled in to work.  Medical Teammates were not only helping patients but getting to know them and praying for them.  There was a sense of connection with the community with our whole team. The construction team are doing the grunt work raising concrete blocks.  You can see the progress each day!  The Security team did an amazing job as well with many obstacles they have overcome.  So far God has been good to us. No sickness in the group, everyone is healthy and we still like each other!  Here are a few pictures from today.  For more pictures please visit my Facebook Page: Christopher Kiley,  Send a friend invite and I will accept it tonight. Blessings All!

Baseball with the kids

Today the youth in between taking blood pressure test with pitch baseballs to the kids. Here is Laura with the Bball gear

Day One Consuelo

Here are some photos to share about today's work. Will write more later 

Team TCI on the Road

Team TCI had the opportunity to Skype within the Trinity service today. It was so cool to participate from a distance. We left this morning to go to LaRomana to see our good friend Moises Siefren at Good Samaritan Hospital to pick up Meds. The hospital is amazing. In only 2 years it is fully staffed and serving many people providing medical services not available to the poor at public hospitals. We then picked up supplies at Jumbo and had lunch. Finally we arrived at Mt Zion to survey the bakery and cooking institute upstairs for the security installation led by Tim Kiley. The medical team is now assembling and setting up for day one of the medical clinic. We anticipate helping 100 patients tomorrow. 

The team is excited to get started

Team TCI off to DR

Team TCI is loaded up and on our way to JFK. Thank you Trinity Church and everyone who made this trip possible! Stay tuned to our blog as we will post all week about our work. Http://teamtci.blogspot.com

Friends in Partnership for the Gospel

We landed in Santo Domingo at 4:45 last evening.  travel was uneventful, smooth and good.  At the airport we had a Dominican welcoming committee greet us.  I realized that in our church to church partnership these relationships we are building had really meaningful.  It was GOOD to see our friends again in partnership for the Kingdom of God.  We have the plan is place for this week but open open to any changes God makes to our itinerary.  We are so grateful to the support we have recieved from Trinity Church and our family, friends in this journey to make the world a better place. ( yesterday I was commissioned by my daughter Shannon to go forth and make the world a better place!). Thank you to all who have sacrificed to make this possible for all 13 team members to come and work here in the Dominican Republic. A special thank you to Pastor Miles and the Mens Ministry who prayed us off yesterday in our send off. We felt so cared for, loved and supported.  We really appreciated you being there.  I will blog later as the day unfolds but wanted to reflect on what God has done so far and thank you all ,for being part of the Trinity Cares Mission!  God Bless you all!