"The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s 29 top leaders traded their laptops and cell phones for paintbrushes and shovels on Wednesday as they constructed a church building—some for the first time—on the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic.
Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the Adventist Church’s General Conference, led the group ....in taking a break from a weeklong business meeting to assist in the project in the town of La Romana.
The new church building will provide 40 local Adventist members with a place to worship. The structure is larger than a typical One-Day project, with male and female restrooms and a freshwater well that will offer the local community of 12,000 people with drinking water.
Evangelist Mark Finley volunteered to paint the bathroom walls, and he was joined by General Conference vice presidents Ella Simmons and Armando Miranda.
Finley, who just wrapped up a five-day evangelistic series on the island that will result in 3,000 baptisms ... the last day of the PREXAD meeting, said two things were going through his mind as he worked Wednesday: painting correctly and praising God for the opportunity to serve Him.
“It’s wonderful to feel the international flavor with all of us here, to work together to expand the church,” Finley said." ANN
Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the Adventist Church’s General Conference, led the group ....in taking a break from a weeklong business meeting to assist in the project in the town of La Romana.
The new church building will provide 40 local Adventist members with a place to worship. The structure is larger than a typical One-Day project, with male and female restrooms and a freshwater well that will offer the local community of 12,000 people with drinking water.
Evangelist Mark Finley volunteered to paint the bathroom walls, and he was joined by General Conference vice presidents Ella Simmons and Armando Miranda.
Finley, who just wrapped up a five-day evangelistic series on the island that will result in 3,000 baptisms ... the last day of the PREXAD meeting, said two things were going through his mind as he worked Wednesday: painting correctly and praising God for the opportunity to serve Him.
“It’s wonderful to feel the international flavor with all of us here, to work together to expand the church,” Finley said." ANN
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20