By Jaimie Wiebe|2024-05-24T21:53:33-04:00May 21st, 2024|Compassion Experience, Outreach, Student Training|
Join us March 6-14, 2025, for a COMPASSION EXPERIENCE (previously known as Mission Trip) to Dominican Republic. This is a unique opportunity for an entry level compassion experience, done at Lighthouse Project through International Teams (ITeams). Consider joining this trip to gain insight, skills and understanding to live compassionately. The aim of COMPASSION EXPERIENCES is to equip and mobilize our churches, youth workers, and youth to compassionately live out the
By Alvin|2023-03-20T00:52:24-04:00March 20th, 2023|Alvin Lau, DR 2023|
Our 8 days in the Dominican Republic culminated in both a series of blessings and challenges. For me (Alvin), this was my second time serving with a team in the Lighthouse Project. Those 8 days consisted of: Morning devotions together on the rooftop of our residence building Delicious meals provided by the Lighthouse staff Building projects in Villa Altagracia specifically with their vocational school and first attention clinic Finishing
By Alvin|2023-03-10T10:52:34-05:00March 9th, 2023|DR 2023|
7:04 pm local time: After getting through security with some minor delays, we took off on time and have now landed in Punta Cana. 8:09 pm: We have all our bags and are on the Lighthouse bus. Plus pizza as we travel! 11:09 pm We arrived safely at the Lighthouse compound. It's been quite the travel day. With some great food waiting for us, the Dominican hospitality
By Alvin|2023-03-09T08:42:54-05:00March 9th, 2023|DR 2023|
This is the first time our entire team was able to gather together as we prepare for this Compassion Experience. After some heartfelt good-byes with parents, we centred on why we're in this, had a Spanish primer lesson led by Karla Campbell and began working through the logistics of our final preparations (including shuttling between our office and our hotel).
By wpengine|2019-03-15T23:55:10-04:00March 15th, 2019|DR 2019|
Jon (Kingsway): Today we had to say goodbye to the other two teams that were here with us this past week. Compass from Orangeville and Flamborough from outside Hamilton. One upside was that we had the facilities all to ourselves, the other is that we definitely got some larger pieces of avocado for lunch! Our work today was focused on completing a concrete ramp to allow
By wpengine|2019-03-15T01:48:51-04:00March 15th, 2019|DR 2019|
Will (Harmony): Today was quite a fun day. In contrast to the hard work we were doing on some other days, today we got to relax a bit and we visited some caves as well as go to the marketplace. The marketplace was really fun because it wasn’t a regular old marketplace. Here we had the option of bargaining and that was a lot of fun.
By wpengine|2019-03-15T23:28:05-04:00March 14th, 2019|DR 2019|
Jon (Kingsway): This morning we had the opportunity to visit the CBOQ School that teams built in 2013. The school goes up to grade 5 and has three classrooms. We rotated activities with each class. Recess, where we bounced basketballs, kicked soccer balls, blew bubbles, and face painted with them. We made bracelets with them, with different colour beads, each representing an aspect of what Jesus
By wpengine|2019-03-15T22:56:05-04:00March 13th, 2019|DR 2019|
Matthew (Kingsway): Today was our second work day, day four of our trip. The work we did today definitely felt harder for me than yesterday, however we paced ourselves well and drank lots of water, and were able to work until the end of the day, maintain our productivity. When we arrived at our worksite, the water purification plant, after lunch, we were told that we
By wpengine|2019-03-11T22:54:01-04:00March 11th, 2019|DR 2019|
Emmanuel (Harmony): Today was our first work day and it was fun! We went to Villa Altagracia. We were split into two groups and my group started off by shoveling dirt and debris and wheel barrowing to another room. After, we went to lay bricks but it had rained for quite awhile which cut into our work time. The thing that stood out to me the most was that
By wpengine|2019-03-15T22:55:01-04:00March 11th, 2019|DR 2019|
Martin (Harmony): The energy from our group today was radiant, because for most of us, it was the first sleep in 24h! Today we were greeted with an amazing sunrise. You could see the vast mountain range in layers before you. As the rest of us got up, we were greeted with the smell of pancakes and sausages, and it tasted great! Personally, I was really surprised how
