Our Local Rockford Partnership with Rock House Kids

Pastor: Dola Gregory

Personal Detail: Dola has a heart for the transient population of children in downtown Rockford. She moved down among them nearly ten 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.

Projects: Vounteers from Northeast have help on Wednesday nights. They have teach, cook, serve food, lead singing, play games, and mentor young hearts.

Future Needs: The possibilites are great! The restrooms need to be upgraded and the Chapel needs remodeling. Dola has dreams of opening up the ministry to the children more nights of the week, only the manpower is holding them back.

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www.rockhousekids.org

Our Dominican Republic Partnership

Pastor: Francisco "Rafelito" Garcia Rodriguez

Spouse: Griselda

Children: Ruth, Josue and Noemi Doris

Personal Detail: Rafelito is a young man 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 which enables Rafelito to concentrate on ministry full-time. We have purchased a van for their family and completed construction of a church building which they used for various forms of worship with a feeding center. We have provided some teaching tools and training, and have done dental clinics.

Interested in sponsoring a child at the Guandules Feeding Center? Click here.

Future Projects: Building a home for Rafelito's family, helping the church expand it's ministry in the community and possibly starting a school.

Our Haiti Partnership

Pastor: Lucne Jean Pierre

Spouse: Marie

Children: Daughters Nerline and Anjuola

Personal Detail: Lucne pastorsa 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 have provided solar panels and lights for their church building which proves to be the only electric energy for 50 miles of the church. We have recently increased his support in order to expand the feeding program running out of the church.

Future Projects: We hope to make improvements to their church building and expand the feeding program. We are praying 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 meet and look for ways to encourage Lucne and his family.