November 21 2009
Baseball, Baseball and more Baseball!
We had around 200 men that we broke up into 5 groups. They performed clinics each day in different locations. Each venue had between 200-600 kids coming to learn baseball techniques from high school, college and professional players/coaches
Pastor Ken Whitten
There was much baseball to be had this week, but the November Baseball Outreach is about much more than baseball. The morning and evening devotional times really makes this trip into part baseball outreach and part men’s conference.
Many of the men, over the past 6 years, have made significant decisions during the conference time. Some have repented from addictions, some have recommitted their marriages, and some have even been saved due to the powerful teaching of the Word.
Andy Green (NY Mets)
Nardi Contreras(Pitching Coordinator-NY)
One of the greatest joy’s this week was seeing men from all walks of life coming together to accomplish the work of evangelism through sports. We had everything from little leaguers to coaches, businessmen to Hall of Famer Gary Carter.
We saw over 1500 professions of faith this week. This presents the enormous task of follow up. Please be praying for our staff and the 25 pastors who will be hard at work with this task over the next several weeks.
Thank you to all who prayed and supported us to make this week a success.
November 17 2009
SCORE is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. This video was made to show at our celebration banquet. Just thought some of you might enjoy watching it.
Please be praying for our Annual Baseball Outreach starting Wednesday (Nov. 18). We are conducting 5 clinics a day. We have over 200 men here participating in the event. There will literally be thousands that will hear the Gospel this week. Please pray for soft receptive hearts.
October 27 2009
Thanks to our dear ministry partners at Stonecrest Community Church (in Warren, NJ), Pastor Vernon now has a medical clinic, a library and a fresh coat of paint on his church building. Catalina de Bani (where the church in located) is a community built along a highway system and has very little to offer the community. The new clinic and library are significant tools for he and his congregation to reach their community.
Stonecrest is also helping Pastor V. and family build a new house. Most of the block is now laid, but there is a lot more to do to complete the job. Interested in working on or donating to this project? Contact me on facebook or my e-mail (ryan@scoreinternational.org) for more details.
Pictures-church/clinic(down stairs)/library(up stairs) buildings, inside view of clinic, dedication service for clinic/library, views of Pastor V’s house.
These are two new chuch buildings built in June and July. Both have since been painted inside and out. One was built for us by Parkway Baptist Temple in TN and the other was built by CWE out of Tampa, FL.
Our church planters have been very busy this year as they have planted 5 new churches and have about 8 disciples training to be pastors and workers in the future church plants. Antonio is a Dominican who was save at Word of Life camp in 2008. He was discipled by our team and is not being commissioned to start a church plant in a new village this year! Please be in prayer for a building for our church plant in Juan Dolio. It is still meeting in the SCORE Complex.
September 26 2009
On the Road
Currently we are back in the States traveling on the East Coast presenting SCORE’s ministry to churches and individuals. We have been in Virginia, Vermont, New York, and West Virginia. We will be back in the Elkhart area during the month of October. If you would like to contact us about speaking to your youth group about KOSMOS (SCORE’s missions conference on the mission field) which this year is in the Dominican please shoot Ryan an email at ryan@scoreinternational.org. Hopefully we will be uploading some of our photos of our travels in the next couple of days.
May 27 2009
What a blessing to see new believers being baptisted. Seeing this man from the Los Fundos church plant (pastored by SCORE missionary Nathan Jude) is particularly encouraging because very few men in the villages are interested in church.
There were 5 from the Los Fundos church and 1 from the Monte Largo church who gave testimony and followed in obedience to Christ in baptism on Sunday.
While my brother (Ray) was in Peru, my dad had a week off from work so he came down to visit us in the DR. We had several projects for him to help us with. Due to many bugs and 1 tirantula in the house, we made our priority to put screens on all the windows and to screen in our back porch. The porch ended up being a bigger job than I had expected. Even though we bought treated wood, it would not have been a good idea to let it sit in puddles of water, so we had to pour some concrete. Yes, I had joy of mixing the conrete and dad poured and leveled it (all in the rain!).
It was a joy to have my dad down for the week. I enjoyed working side by side with him and showing him around a little bit.
Sporting the Bears hat in the sun, that’s my dad. We would have finished all our projects if we would have had more days like this one.
We meet a lot of people through out the year (about 3500) so we get pretty used to saying goodbye. It can be hard to do at times especially with our interns who spend anywhere from 3 weeks to 6 months. Jara is from our hometown and has been down for 5 months. Megan began meeting with here weekly for discipleship since we arrived in March, so it was difficult for us to say goodbye this last week. We miss Jara already as she was a very hard worker.
The foundation for our new church plant in San Pedro is really starting to take shape. In the previous update I shared that property had been prepped, but now the trenches are dug, the footers have been poured, the floor level is being layed and the bathroom walls are all up. As I also said previously, we just have to have the foundation ready for CWE by early July and they will take it from there.
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