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Local Rockford Partnership with Rock House Ministries
Pastor:
Dola Gregory
Personal Detail: Dola has a heart for the transient population
of children in downtown Rockford. She moved down among them nearly
eight years ago and has shared Christ's love openly ever since.
Area Served: Downtown Rockford near Broadway and 7th is
a more challenged area of Rockford. There is a lot of drug related
crime and prostitution. It is estimated that there are hundreds
of "homeless" children in this area.
Past Projects: Vounteers from Northeast have helped on
Wednesdays for over three years now. They have taught, cooked,
served food, led in singing, played games, and mentored. Volunteers
from Northeast are working on building and furnishing classrooms
for the children so they can break up into age appropriate areas
to learn more effectively.
Click
here to see us at work building these classrooms (this is a 15meg
Windows Media Video).
Future Projects: The possibilites are great. The restrooms
need to upgraded. The kitchen needs to be upgraded. Dola has dreams
of opening up the ministry to the children more nights of the
week. Only the manpower is holding her back.
Our Dominican
Republic Partnership
Pastor:
Francisco "Rafelito" Garcia Rodriguez
Spouse: Griselda
Children: Ruth (11) Josue
(5) and Noemi Doris (1)
 Personal
Detail: Rafelito is a young man of thirty-eight with a great
heart. His wife is very supportive and active in his ministry
especially in the area of children's ministry. They currently
rent an apartment in their area of service.
Area Served: Los Guandules is an area of intense poverty
on the outskirts of Santiago. This land is not deeded and families
live on top of each other on the hillside surrounding a river
valley. It is not unusual for many of the makeshift homes to be
destroyed by flooding.
Past Projects: We provide a monthly salary whih enables
Rafelito to concentrate on ministry full-time. We have purchased
a van for their family to use both personally and for use in ministry.
We recently completed construction of a church building which
they used for various forms of worship and a feeding
center. We have provided some teaching tools and training,
and have done a dental clinic.
Interested
in sponsoring a child at the Guandules Feeding Center? Click here.
Future Projects: Finishing work on the church building,
further developing the feeding program, or possibly building a
house for Rafelito's family.
Our Haiti
Partnership
Pastor:
Lucne Jean Pierre
Spouse: Marie
Children: Daughters Nerline (9) and Anjuola (11)
Personal Detail: Lucne
is a pastor in his early 40's. He pastors a congregation of about
200 people in Phaeton, a town on the northern coast of Haiti.
 Area
Served: Phaeton
is a fishing village on the northern coast of Haiti. It is about
two hours from the border. The town has a population of approximately
2000 people. The people survive on fishing. Haiti is one of the
least developed countries of the world. Travel is difficult due
to very poor roads.
Past
Projects: We
provide a monthly salary, which enables Lucne to concentrate on
ministry full-time. We recently made a gift of several Haitian/Creole
Bibles and some personal items. We have also provided solar panels
and lights for their church building which proves to be the only
electric energy for 50 miles of the church.
Future
Projects: We
hope to make improvements to their church building. We are hoping
for the political situation in Haiti to improve so that we will
be able to enter Haiti soon. When we make visits to our Dominican
Partner we always look to encourage Lucne and his family in some
way.
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