Dove Missions

We have so many opportunities on facebook.com that will give you the information on our organization and photos with the accompaning stories that can be quite engageing.  I encourage you to check it out.  This is our latest facebook.com with some links at the bottom to give you a better idea of what I am talking about

www.facebook.com  enter your information and only your friends can see your profile.  Look us up at Dove Missions.  You may find many of your friends have pages and it is quite fun!

I am picking your family for you! 2:46pm

I have been asked by a few people to pick the family to sponsor for a year. Others have made their requests known so here are the basics:

To sponsor a family of any size is a financial commitment of $30.00 US dollars a month. We will choose the most basic needs first. If there is a certain need that is a larger donation and you want to sponsor that, we will keep you informed.

This sponsorship is for one year. It is a pilot program to help set up a vocational school to train these boys in a trade, so in a year they will be able to provide a better living for the family and maybe you could sponsor a newer needier family at that time. If you would like to extend one year or cancel prior to a full year commitment, we can make adjustments.

The participating families have a responsibility to the surrounding area of the central community to participate in cleaning, rebuilding, painting or anything that they can volunteer an effort to help better the community and help this vocational school get started. Lack of participation must be for medical reasons; otherwise they could jeopardize the monthly sponsorship. This helps validate to the neighbors that they are “earning” the money, not just a handout and they may possibly have an opportunity to be a sponsored family if they volunteer and participate in cleaning up the neighborhood. Like a block watch program of sorts.

Richard’s family is sponsored by Lisa Mastain’s family
Jose (not pictured yet but on the website) is Kelly Willey but this has not been confirmed
Alberto (not yet pictured) is sponsored by John Lally’s family
Manuel (Tati) will be sponsored by Todd Evans
Manuel will be sponsored by Carolyn Santora

Did I miss someone? Please let me know.

I have some other requests from people not on facebook, so I will update when I have confirmations

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 Todd Evans at 3:08pm November 18

Ok that sounds great , let me know when you want the cell phones

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 Karen Polaschek at 5:49pm November 18

Beautiful! I’m so glad that this program is already working. You forwarded me an email from Kim H about the Little Flowers group. Do you have specifics for that or should I just have them make up the packages generically? Let me know.God bless you!

 Dove Missions at 6:52pm November 18

I love what you and the Meilhan family are doing with the Christmas packages. That would be perfect. Maybe they could collect things they like and put their age on the bag. I assume it is all little girls, right? We have many opportunities here to make sure everyone gets something at our Holiday parties. They don’t do just Christmas, also gift giving on New Years and Jan 6th, Epiphany. So, we have our hands full! Keep up the good work, Karen! God Bless you too!

Merry Christmas! 

Or it could be for someone who has little hope, nothing to eat and possibly no place to sleep.  I think about Jesus, with Mary and Joseph having to leave their families (under circumstances that where very shameful) with no support, go to a place where there is no place to sleep and to give birth to Jesus in a cave and then having to flee to a country and go into hiding for years.  Here I thought I was having a tough go of things!  During a season of Thanksgiving for what we have been given and the celebration of our Lord and Savior’s birth, we ask that you remember where Jesus came from.  Who were the strangers that must have helped him and his family during his childhood years? Now I understand why he loved the poor and brokenhearted so much!  He was always with them, and mentioning them countless times in the bible.

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world”  James 1:27    

Are you doing this in your life?  You can.  Here is how.  We are setting up and opportunity for you to sponsor an orphan for Christmas.  It could be a one time gift.  You could even send a gift of your choice. How about sponsoring an entire family for the Holidays?  This could be another one time gift.  Still better, you could commit to sponsoring a family for a year, getting pictures and reports on exactly where your donation monies are going and why. 

THE BEST IDEA YET-SPONSOR A FAMILY FOR ONE YEAR AND COME ON A MISSION TRIP WITH YOUR FAMILY TO HELP THEM!  Now that is what I am talking about.  This work is person to person, family to family.  Complete interaction.  It is an investment in your children and their children.  On Friday, November 14th, I will be posting on facebook.com under Dove Missions all of these opportunities and the approximate costs.  On Facebook.com, you will be able to receive photos, updates and see other families doing the same.  Everyone will have an opportunity to help.  Please email me if you are interested. dovemissions@msn.com.  There is still time to ship gifts and I can explain that process to you in the email.

In great love for Christ,

Liz McKie 

The Orphan Train.  Ever heard of it?  Not many people have.  It was so long ago in American history.  Seems almost irrelevant being that most of the Orphans are now dead.  Like my Grandmother Mary.  I didn’t know her as well as I would have liked.  I remember how much she loved us and what a joy it was to sleep at her house when we were in town to visit her.  The beds were thick and old and you all rolled into the center.  Usually three to a bed as I am from a family of seven children.  You had to go in the closet with a pail at night to go to the bathroom, because they had an outhouse and it was usually to cold to go outside.  Grandma didn’t know much about her past.  She was in a New York orphanage until the age of 13.  Every year during harvest time they would gather up the children who could work and send them across the

My Grandma became a housemaid to a family that did not love her, but made sure she was well cared for.  We were able to find out more information later about her parents, but the details are skewed and sketchy.What does this have to do with this picture?  Most of the children on the orphan train had parents but could not keep them or they would be deported.  Or they were too poor.  This is the case here in the

The Peace Corps is a United States agency created to promote world peace and friendship by training American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service overseas.  I had the honor of working with Stephanie here in Puerto Plata, reviewing the programs she has spent the last two and a half years creating.  Stephanie will be leaving in a couple of weeks, along with another Peace Corps worker named Mark who works in the town of Imbert.  Both have done a tremendous job in the communities they have served, by education and implementation of new ideas to promote a better way of living.   I have such hope for the 18-25 year old generation.  I am inspired by their ability to act when they see someone in need. 

We are all connected.  We share the life force within us that bring us together.  That life force is love.  With the different types of love that there are, that just reinforces in me how powerful it is.  Paul talks about the three most important virtues to have; Faith, Hope and Love.  The greatest of these is Love.  IT IS THE GREATEST!  Exercising love is the most powerful way to help us in this ministry.  I see it everyday here, in some small way, I witness an act of love that almost brings me to tears.  For example, last night we drove down the Melacon to see if any of the street boys were out.  We try to do this every night so if they are out we make sure they know we are watching and care about their safety.  Well, last night 5 boys were on the street looking for trouble and we stopped them.  We started with the questions like “what is going on, why are you out so late, where is the shoeshine kit we just bought you?” and so on.  In the middle of this discussion a very old skinny woman with no teeth and no shoes walked up to me and asked me for money.  I sharply replied “No”.  I didn’t want to be interrupted by anyone to show how serious the matter at hand was.  One of the boys who was a  Haitian, who had just explained they didn’t have the money for the motoconcho home, handed her 5 pesos.  I felt so little.  I think God has chosen me to be driven to humility.  This act of charity is what I am speaking about.  It is a seemingly small act with a powerful witness to others.  We need your help.  Anything that you could do to help us would lighten our load and encourage us to continue in love in this ministry.  When I receive a response to a blog, or a phone call from back home my heart is filled with joy!  I know that the poor and the forgotten are being thought of and prayed for.  I know that what we are doing is connecting people worlds apart with the greatest gift-Love.  Will you walk with us in this ministry, please?  Will you pray with us to end poverty, disease and hunger in our lifetime?  Search yourself and ask yourself if there is anything you can do-write a email, gather much needed supplies, come here and walk with us, sponsor our mission, raise awareness in your workplace and communities.   Anything to help us “feel the love”

The writing on Alberto’s front door says “together with hope”  How profound.

We started a youth group about 2 months ago when we moved into our house.  We meet every Thursday night.  We are on the edge of Cristo Rey, an average Dominican community that is also known as an area of high crime and drug activity.  We have about 15 young people with the average age being 16, come to our house and we teach them contemporary Christian songs in English.  We start with prayer and fellowship, sing songs we learned from weeks before and introduce 2 new songs.  Oh how they love to sing!   Most of these kids have a general education and an opportunity to make a difference in this country.  Our hope is that this experience will show them that we care about them and the community, and that they will reach out to others in a positive, caring way.

“Our first task in approaching another people, another culture, another religion, is to take off our shoes, for the place is holy. Else we may find ourselves treading on people’s dreams. More serious still, we may forget that God was there before our arrival.”
- Max Warren

Culture is what holds a community together. It is the total way of life of a particular group of people at a particular time in history. This way of life includes the groups intellect, customs, ideas, traditions, symbols, social structures, values, language arts and mores. We are all shaped by the culture in which we were raised. Our cultural inheritance comes to us without our asking. When we approach other peoples in their cultures we are not in any way to belittle them, but we begin with an attitude of respect because those cultures are the fruit of generations that have tries to preserve life, to beautify it, and somehow to respond to the demands of the Spirit of God present everywhere, a preservation of life and a renewal of reality.

• Thank You’s from All Nations International

  All Nations International would like to thank our new friends in the Dominican Republic for meeting with us on our recent visit. A special thanks goes to:

  Mrs.Rosa and Mr.Fausto at Integracion Juvenil

  Sam and Liz at Dove Missions

  Mrs.Sandra Tineo

  They are hard at work helping disadvantaged children in the Puerto Plata area. They play a active, vibrant, welcoming and responsible role in the communities they serve. They extend these communities with others by sharing the tremendous beauty of the people, history, and culture of the Dominican Republic.  All Nations International is committed to helping our partners create a lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged children. 

  www.allnationsintl.com

YOU ARE BLESSED

*If you have money in your wallet or in the bank then you are in the top 8% of the world’s wealthiest people.

*If you have food to eat, clothes to wear, and a warm place to sleep than you are better off than 75% of the world’s population.

*If you have more health than illness then you are ahead of the one million who will not survive the week.

*If you do not have to endure battle, imprisonment, or torture than you will have a better day than five hundred million of the world’s population.

*If you attended a church meeting this week without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death then you are more privileged than 3 billion other people in the world.

*If you can read this flyer than you are ahead of the 2 billion who cannot not read.

YOU ARE BLESSED

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