So We Went Fishin

Well I think I felt more at home this day than I have since I've been here! We went fishin.  Pretty simply we bought some strong fishing line, hooks, and chugged a few waters to make us some hand lines.  The Dominican fishing way is to wrap fishing line around a bottle, tie a hook to the end and put a weight on it. Then with some bait on the end (in this case we caught some crabs) like a cowboy swing it around your head and cast it into the deep.  Not a hard concept but still can be effective as long as you can keep your line from getting tangled! Needless to say our Haitian buddies LOVED it. Only one of them had ever been fishing before so it was a fun teaching moment and after a little instruction and tying on a few hooks for them, they were off and going.  Unelle (guy in the 4th picture down) was in charge of catching the crabs for our bait and he was good at it! once we caught our first little bait fish we just cut it up and used it for bait.

 As you can see from the pictures it was a gorgeous day and the Lords creation kept us in awe once again!

We look forward to doing this more and more with these guys.  They have become such good friends and we have enjoyed hanging out with them! These men love Jesus and are learning what it looks like to truly follow Him and what it means to make disciples.  A day like this day just takes me back to the times when Jesus hung out with his men fishing on the lake. The small conversations about Gods creation and just the example of a life on life transference is priceless! We pray that these men continue to catch a vision for discipleship and how they have the potential to reach the world for Christ!  We later found out that the rest of the small fish that we caught were used in a stew back home that night for dinner! Ha welcome to the D.R.