The Cercadillo Project

Bethany Plante from Massachusetts is here this week leading our women in Moms in Touch workshops.  This international program encourages mothers to gather once a week to pray specifically for their children and their children’s schools and teachers.  The training was well received and the women are planning to meet on Thursday afternoons to pray.

These women who live in the nearby village of Vietnan also participated in the workshop and are planning to have their own weekly meetings in their neighborhoods.

Hope College students spending their spring break in the DR with TIME Ministries visited Cercadillo on Wednesday and brightened the day of many children with group games . . .

and lots of individual attention.    Thank you,  Hope College students!

Two couples from Minnesota, Brian and Ann Ferro and Terry and Jean Hayward, decided to spend their winter vacation helping in the DR with TIME Ministries.  One of their many projects was to make three cutting tables for our women in Cercadillo.

The taller tables were warmly received by the women who often spend several hours bent over a table cutting out the project of the day.

Some of the women of Cafe y Coser posing for a photo with one of the new cutting tables.

A team we often refer to as “The Chicago Sewing Ladies” just left this afternoon after being here for a week.  Their leader, Jacque Spencer, always comes with many marketable projects for our women to make.

Jacque Spencer with Jacquelin and Elida

During this past week the women of Cercadillo received instruction in beading, new variations on macrame bracelets, more ideas with crocheting and card making, and two new sewing projects.

Allie teaching Anively to macrame.

MAYBE WELLS THIS WEEK?  I promise to post pics as soon as it happens!  Please keep praying!