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Noah Purington Video
Hey all, this is Jim. The Lord provided in such miraculous ways in the DR while we were assisting the Haitians. Not the least of those provisions was Noah. There were alot of old Orthopedic Surgeons, used to arriving in an operating room with the patient prepped and draped. What we REALLY needed was young, [...]
Sowing Seeds in the DR: Earthquake update
Hello friends and family,
After I heard about the Earthquake I began to think that some of you are probably wondering if I’m ok since I am on the same island of this catastrophe. I did not feel the earthquake, one of my friends did feel moving of the ground a little but nothing intense. I [...]
Sowing the seeds in the DR: 2010
January 2, 2010- my first holidays spent away from my family was definitely different from the norm. Christmas Eve is celebrated above Christmas Day here and I got to celebrate it with Jeffrey’s family. It’s kind of a mixture of Christmas and Thanksgiving with mountains of food prepared in every house. People make their rounds [...]
Sowing the seeds in the DR: winter break
This week in the DR has been pretty productive but not extraordinary. A lot of manual labor has been used to create a draining ditch alongside the front of the property. Jeffery and I replaced a PVC water pipe that runs the water supply to Harley’s family house. It was exposed before which left it [...]
Sowing seeds in the DR: Mini Church
Saturday December 5th 2009 – I got the privilege to start a weekly Bible Study or what my home church calls a “minichurch” with eight or so high school Christians. Most of them are from my morning English class and we decided to have the study at 7pm on Thursday nights. It is very interesting [...]
Sowing seeds in the DR: Baseball Clinic
Wednesday December 2, 2009 – On the last weekend before Thanksgiving a team of high school baseball players came from New York to do a baseball clinic and help finish the electrical in the new building. These boys were hardly the stature of High schoolers from where I come from (Hawaii); they were giants at [...]
Sowing seeds in the DR: filler up
Wednesday November 11th- On Saturday Del Corazon held a raffle for the baseball players who have signed up for the winter Little League. After dividing up the donated product into size ranges the night before, Steve, Julie, Harley, Jeffery and I laid out the goods around the gym room so the kids could zero in [...]
Sowing Seeds in the DR: our excursion
Tuesday November 4th- This past weekend Steve, Harley, Jeffery, and I decided to go on an adventure to the northern side of the island. Well an adventure is what we got, but it was definitely not what we had in mind. The plan was to visit and do a medical clinic check-out for a ministry home [...]
Sowing seeds in the Dominican Republic by Noah Purington
October 24, 2009 – Hello, my name is Noah Purington. I am a 24 year old missionary from Hawaii with a degree in Psychology. I have been a Christian since I can remember, attending Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay from Sunday school to the college ministry before I left to the Dominican Republic in early October. [...]
