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!

Can't sleep so I blog

Tonight was our last team meeting before departing Saturday for the Dominican Republic. Pastor Miles

Informed us that with the congregational giving each team members expenses are covered!  What a blessing. I am amazed once again how God provides through his people. Trinity Church has always had a big heart for missions which started under Pastor Ves Sheely's leadership and vision casting. I am truly blessed to be part of what God is doing through Trinity Cares International.  We packed the meds for the medical team and alarm equipment for the security team, the concrete team well your stuff is on site ready to go!  24 hrs and we are off. Please continue to pray God will show us the way day by day and that we will see where he is at work and join him. It is now 2:24 am and I am so wired by the spirit I don't want to sleep but know I should. Ok I will try once again. Until next blog...

Prayer Needed

First Mission Team Challenge

Please pray as Tim Kiley is on his way to New Hampshire to straighten out a snag with his passport.
Tim is leading the security alarm team and it crucial to that team.  Pray that God goes before him and he has favor with anyone he comes in contact with and this will go through smoothly and he receives his passport on time.  We are getting down to the wire.  Our God is able! Thank you for your prayers...

Put Your Life Afloat Upon God

 Today's Reflections are from Matt Parker, Team Leader Construction

 

Here is a reflection on our upcoming mission.  Shannen and I are looking forward to what God will do during the mission trip to Consuelo, DR.

Oswald Chambers writes, Put everything in your life afloat upon God, going out to sea on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and your eyes will be opened. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself— begin to have spiritual discernment.

God brings us out of our comfort zones the more we seek to know Him and follow His heart.  

God wants you to be something that you have never been. “If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know . . .” John 7:17.

Matt

Wednesday June 11th- 10 days to departure

Before I start today's reading I must acknowledge my Mothers 80th birthday today! Happy Birthday Mom!  today the thought of the day comes from John 19 where Pilate write "Jesus The King of the Jews". the Jews right away tell Pilate write he claimed to be King of the Jews, Pilate says " I have written what I have written" The Truth!  Jesus was not only King of the Jews but of Pilate and for all mankind!

Ambassadors for Christ

Todays sermon thought was so appropriate and a great reminder that wherever we go, we are God's Ambassadors.  Pastor Miles used 2 Corinthians 5:20 as his scripture text:

• 2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV

  Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
  
  
  We are praying God will use this years team as his ambassadors to bring healing both physically and spiritually to those in the Dominican Republic as we partner with the local church, Mt. Zion Church.
  
  
  Please pray for us that God will show us where he is at work so we can join him in the work of the Kingdom.  13 days till departure.

Pastor Julio Greets you!

Today we had a Skype session with Pastor Julio for planning our upcoming Team Mission Trip.
The folks in the DR are excited to greet our team and work alongside us for the week we will be there.  We have two construction teams one putting an addition on the bakery and the other wiring a security monitoring system for the whole building covering the bakery, water treatment facility and the Culinary Institute.  Our third team will lead Medical clinics for 4 days working with Dominican Medical Professionals.  We leave two weeks from today!  Would you partner with us by praying for our team and our work?  If you would like to Contribute to our work all gifts are tax deductible.
Checks can be made to Trinity Cares International & sent to Trinity Church 33 Center RD Woodbridge, CT 06525.  God bless you for your support!

Peace for the Task

Today's post is from Team Member Kathy Kiley:

For the blog, here is some thoughts from yesterday's daily devotion I read. In summary, it stated and how I applied it to our DR trip:

God is in control of every aspect of our lives and has mapped our journey.  Since he knows all things since the beginning of time, He is fully aware of each of us going to the DR and He goes ahead preparing the way for us.  He promised that he will never leave our sides.  Our job is to let the Holy Spirit guide us as he will protect us and equip us as we depend on Him. Isaiah 41:13 states "For I am The Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do Not Fear; I will help you."  

This gives me peace when I think about the task ahead. 

 KK

Many Moving Parts

Today's Thought:  "Parts of the Body"

As TCI's Mission Team is preparing for departure in a few short weeks the Lord reminded me of how uniquely he gifted each member of our Mission Team this year.  Each brings their gifts to use for the Lord's service and are all a part of the Body of Christ.  The sum of each part makes up The Church, the bride of Christ.  "The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the Body of Christ" I Cor 12:12

Live58.org

Today's Thought: "Live 58"...You have to watch the movie to find out what Live 58 means!

Team TCI has been training together as a team for the last several months to prepare for our work in the Dominican Republic later this month.  Several years ago our mission team was inspired by the book "When Helping Hurts"   In training we have done a summary of the book and watched live58 the movie together.  The movie was produced by Compassion International.  Trinity Cares has partnered with Compassion International through child sponsorship in the Dominican Republic.  We have sponsored over 100 children to date.
Live58 is a documentary movie that tells the story of many families struggling to provide the daily basic needs for their children.  The story is a story of hope as it documents the difference the church is making by reducing poverty throughout the world.  There is a lot of work still to do and the challenge is one I believe we can meet.  I would encourage you to watch the movie. Its a little over an hour long but it will help you to understand the plight of poverty and how we can make a difference.   I look forward to working with our team to make a difference among the poor of the Dominican Republic this year through this year's mission work.  Click this Link to watch the Movie:
http://www.live58.org/watch-the-film
Make a comment here on our blog after you watch the movie and let me know your thoughts and what you felt the Spirit of God saying to you. How are you making a difference in your world? How can we make a difference together? In what ways do you sense God calling Trinity Church to respond?  Share your comments below....