CenterPoint Church Blog: FINAL TOTALS from the DOMINICAN

Total Salvations: 12,112

Total Miracles: 89

Pastor Pat Dezort wrote:

Headed back to Santa Domingo this morning. Last night of crusade was great with over 11,000 in attendance. Ended up with around 12,000 decisions for Christ for the week according to our counters. Special thanks to Centerpointfamily Church for making this happen.

Keith Mitchell wrote:

A week ago I posted that people on a mission team always seem to have special skills to handle a unexpected situation encountered...little did I realize how prophetic these words would be...late Saturday on our return trip from Barahona to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, going through the mountains, our bus found the road blocked by a terrible accident involving several semis and other vehicles. Several of the semis were engulfed in flames. Our teams went to assist, in other countries there is limited First Response teams, none ever showed up. I located a man who had been pulled from one of the burning semis and just left laying on the side of the road. One leg was almost severed, the other crushed. I raced back to the bus to grab belts for tourniquets, a first aid kit, and 25 year old CAN Jenna Bess. Jenna rapidly stopped the bleeding, and I watched in amazement as she stabilized the driver. We then used blankets as a stretcher and loaded him on our bus and drove him back an hour to the nearest hospital. Jenna did all the right things in route and kept this man alive till we reached the hospital. He is now recovering, one leg was amputated, they are not sure about the other yet .. he has many injuries .. but he is alive .. if Jenna has not been with us the man would have died .. Jenna Bess you are my hero!! I am so proud of your poise under pressure! I believe God made sure you were with us because the driver of the truck Raul, needed you to be there this night. And Raul accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior on this night. I serve an awesome God.

Ice Cream Night

Melissa Rollins wrote:

The mission field was truly amazing and life changing this week. God is so faithful. It's great to be home!

Pastor Fleming

Pastor Kathi Dezort wrote:

What an amazing week in Barahona Dominican Republic! God has been so faithful every step of the way! It is always good to come home though. So blessed!

Jessica Bowen wrote:

On our way to Santo Domingo tonight we were stopped b/c there was a huge fire blocking the road from a multiple car accident. Our guys went to see what was wrong & they found 1 survivor who apparently had been drug from his vehicle & left in the road. Jenna created a tourniquet & by acting quickly saved his life. He was badly hurt with his right leg severed. No one would help him or drive him to a hospital so we all scrunched to the back of the bus & prayed while they carried him on & we drove back to Barahona to take him to the hospital. While en route Eduardo shared w/him about Jesus and the man, Raul, prayed and asked Jesus into his life. If we had been on any later on that road that man wouldn’t be alive. Talk about being at the right place at the right time.

Jenna Bess wrote:

PRAISE JESUS!!!!! At children's crusade there were 1450 kids in attendance and SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE SALVATIONS!!!!! Now that is AWESOME!!

Chris Rollins wrote:

Ready for the last leg home. Had an amazing last day with the children's crusade and evening crusade last night. Overall, we saw over 12,000 people give their lives to Jesus this week. One of those was our very special bus driver all week.
God loves the world, but He cares just as much about the one! People are quick to understand God's power, but their eternities are forever changed when they understand His love!