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New Playground!

As a child, did you ever say that recess was your favorite subject? Well, I can surely say it was mine. I just loved running, playing basketball, talking to people, making friends, socializing, just playing games (even now as an adult)! but this is me. What about you? Sometimes just to sit down for a […]

Feb 2018 Updates!

Rockford, IL Trip During the first week of January, a group from Rockford, IL made their annual trip to the Dominican Republic to serve with us in Cielo. Several of their team members were there for the first time, while others were returnees anxious to see their Dominican & Haitian friends and be back in […]

Back to School!

All smiles at Cielo Preschool Cielo and Nazaret Schools are back in session August 28th and September 4th The new school year is beginning and with it, some changes in the system of education. The Nazareth elementary school is adding the 9th grade, fulfilling the new requirement from the Department of Education. All the schools in the […]

Stories from Summer Staff 2017

This year, the Summer Staff, along with all their responsibilities of helping run projects, devoted themselves to studying and applying (the hard part ) the Beatitudes from Matt. 5:3-10. These words from Oswald Chambers’ devotional, “My Utmost for His Highest,” states it best: “…The literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount is child’s play; […]

Joy and hope for flood victims

Joy and Hope are the only words I could think of when I saw them. Their faces said it all, the excitement, the smiles, the look in their eyes…that was all. I keep thinking about the young mother who shouted being outside while walking out beside the two men that were carrying her new bed […]

Ground Breaking and The Christ School Trip

Opportunity Knocks We recently had a ground-breaking ceremony for what will become the Opportunity Center of Cielo, a place for community members to develop their own businesses, find or receive training for specific jobs, and acquire goods and services otherwise harder to access for the community. In a property just across the street from the […]

Feb 2017 – Women’s Trip and Medical Center update

2017 is off to a great start as we brought in the New Year with the annual Rockford Christian High School – now Rockford “Open” Trip! Their theme was “You can’t change the world if you look just like it.” They focused on this for discussions with small groups at night. Many work sites kept […]

ME’s first marriage retreat

Dominican Couples gathered for a weekend marriage retreat at Mission Emanuel, led by Kent and Michelle Sterchi. In partnership with a marriage ministry in Charlotte, NC, Two Becoming One, each couple was challenged to move from a “performance-based” marriage to a “faith-based” marriage! The retreat sessions focused on what the “Author of Marriage” teaches us […]