Entries by ME Staff

Announcing Our New Executive Director

Mission Emanuel celebrated 20 years of ministry in Nazaret and Cielo in October 2015. We start 2016 with new and exciting news: As of January 1, 2016, Jim Sweeney is our new Executive Director. Jim has been on staff serving as the Director of Short-Term Missions since 2011. During that time, Jim was responsible for […]

The Wise Men Got It Right!

And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary his mother; and they fell down and worshipped him; and opening their treasures they offered unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. Matthew 2:11 Upon coming into the presence of the Christ Child, the wise men worshipped Jesus and presented Him […]

Mission Emanuel Celebrates 20th Anniversary

While I am glad that we have a special holiday to celebrate everything and everybody that we are thankful for, as Christians, we celebrate God’s grace and provision all year round. And here at Mission Emanuel, we now have a 20 year history to add to our reasons for celebration. I wish you could have been […]

Physical Therapy Ministry & Chariots of Cielo Update

The following article was written by our ministry partner, Deanna Lusty. Deanna and a team of therapists, technicians, and teachers have been working with us for the past several years developing our Rehabilitation Ministry for Special-Needs Children.      It’s that time of year again when our group starts making plans for the Dominican Republic! I […]

Raising the Roof

A 13-year-old dream is becoming a reality. Our new ministry center/gymnasium is going up at a record pace. The first two floors are up and the steel girders, which will support the roof, are being prepared to go on in the next two weeks. The bell tower and the astronomy observatory tower should be completed […]

The Positive Side of Sponsorship

The Mission Emanuel Child Sponsorship Program is in a great place right now! As of today, all of our children have been sponsored for this school year. Our Winter and Spring projects were full of people who became new sponsors, many for the first time. What a blessing to so many…especially the children and their families! Our […]

And we’re off!

The New Year has begun at Mission Emanuel with several groups already hitting the ground in the DR to build and bless the people there. One area that we have been gently and slowly going in to is, Quita Sueño. This community is across the river from Cielo where we usually work. In many ways this […]

A Christmas “Fiesta”

The Dominican Fiesta Hotel in Santo Domingo partners with Mission Emanuel through out the year housing Americans who stay at their hotel while they serve with us in Cielo. These photos show this year’s annual Christmas party they gave for the Cielo Preschool. The children were bussed to the hotel for a day of wonderful fun — […]

Update from the October “Open” Trip

Sponsor Children Christmas Photos For you sponsors who are in our Child Sponsorship Program, you can be looking forward to some pretty adorable Christmas cards that will arrive in your mailbox next month. Thanks to Bob Heimall and Lorraine Thoms , all the children in our schools had their photos taken for these cards that […]