Dental Evangelism in the Dominican Republic [Posted July 15, 2010]
A team of six from four different New England churches ministered recently with GDMMissions in the Dominican Republic with a series of dental evangelism clinics. The trip was arranged through a group of fundamental Baptist pastors and resulted in five clinics in the towns of Bayaguana, Carolina, Monte Plata, Guerra, and San Pedro. At two of the clinics Dr. Jack Mitchell was joined by a national dentist and at others by a dental student who cleaned teeth. Patients in each of these towns hear the Gospel from pastors and national believers as they waited for free dental care. The GDMMissions team participated in a 
special combined dental and medical clinic in the town of Quisqueya arranged by the Dominican group Misión Jesús Vino, Vive y Vuelve – MJV3 (Mission Jesus Came, Lives, and Comes Again) which conducts evangelistic clinics four times per year. The MJV3 clinic was held in a small Baptist church in Quisqueya where the dental team was joined by two dentists, five doctors, two pharmacists, and a large number of believers from churches in Santo Domingo. Many people received Christ as their Savior during these evangelistic meetings as the Word of God was shared with hundreds by faithful members of churches who volunteered to preach, teach, and witness during the day. The GDMMissions team is thankful for the generous hospitality of our hosts while we ministered in the Dominican Republic. We made many new friends and were encouraged to them living for Christ before their families and neighbors.
Update on the Ministry to the Philippines Islands [Posted June 4, 2010]
GDMMissions recently served for three weeks in the Philippines. Our first week of ministry focused on the town of Vigan where tradition runs deep. Vigan is a historic town with Spanish buildings dating back to the mid and late 1800s. Religion also runs deep in Vigan; the Catholic Church has dominated this northern region of the main island since the Spanish arrived in the mid 1500s. Five hundred years of Catholicism presents quite a challenge to Brother Levi whose aim it is to establish a church in Vigan. Our clinics were designed establish credibility and favor for the small group of believers who are now meeting with the goal of establishing a church with regular services. We rejoice in those who trusted Christ and will continue to receive discipleship.
In our second week we served in three different locations on the island of Bohol. Two of the three churches were new and in need of much strengthening. There were also a number of individual saved in each of these outreaches.
Building Up Local Churches in Mexico
In January a team to Hermosillo, Mexico worked with students from Ebenezer Bible College (a ministry of MGMI) to conduct dental evangelism clinics in churches where the team had been in years past. In San Bosco, where four years ago we had an open-air clinic in a local park and some people were saved, there is now a church with faithful attendance on Sunday services. What a blessing to have a part in seeing God build the Body of Christ in San Bosco as several of the believers now attending had their first contact with the Gospel in a dental clinic!
In March we had another exciting experience taking the Gospel to Monterrey, Mexico. Our dental clinic in Los Naranjos was set up in a mission church recently started by the Christian University of the Americas (UCLA in Spanish) where they wanted to reach people in the immediate area with the Good News. The Lord worked in a wonderful way through dental care and faithful witnessing by many students and pastors: 25 people accepted Christ as their Savior during our blessed time in Los Naranjos! We look forward to continuing to be part of what God is doing in Los Naranjos and Monterrey as He builds His Church there.
Dr. Mitchell Reports on Hermosillo, Mexico
On February 20th, 2010, a group of six set out from four churches in New England to travel
to Hermosillo, Mexico. Meeting up with our seventh team member, missionary Luis Arce, we held dental clinics in two villages surrounding Hermosillo. The first was in San Bosco. Four years ago, we worked for the first time in San Bosco in the middle of a public park. The next year we worked again outside, treating those who were invited to come. The next year a tiny church had been born and was meeting in a small home. This year we rejoiced to see that they had outgrown their first location and were already outgrowing their second one with the attendance of eighty-eight people for Sunday service!
Our second location in the Hermosillo area was a new one for us. The tiny village of San Pedro afforded us a lovely park to work in with a gazebo in the center. For two days we treated patients in the gazebo as the students of Instituto Practico Ebenezer shared the gospel with those who were waiting. Many professions of faith were made. The positive contact of offering free dental care to those in physical need, gave a wonderful opportunity to also address their spiritual need. The gratitude of the people was evidenced by those who made delicious Mexican food for us as a thank you for the care received. Now the work of discipling those who made professions has begun. How we are praying that if the Lord allows us to return to San Pedro next year, we might see another infant church planted and God’s people growing in their faith!
Cameroon Field Team Returns
The Cameroon team returned at the end of January with reports of God working in marvelous ways. The team ministered in three locations, focusing primarily on the two remote villages of Amanavil and Akwaya. Akwaya the larger village sits about nine miles from Cameroons boarder with Nigeria and is only accessible by foot or via small missionary aircraft. Amanavil sits even deeper in the forested mountains that cover this part of Southern Cameroon. Hundreds of people were exposed to the gospel. Many confessed their lost state and cried out to Christ for salvation. They said it was a blessing to see lasting fruit from last year’s ministry in Amanavil and from GDMMissions 2003 ministry in Akwaya.
Dr. Mitchell's update on the GDMMissions field trip to Micronesia, October 2009
In October our team of nine made the long trip to the Micronesian island grouping known as Yap. Yap is located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia and Papua New Guinea. We again faced a restricted access situation, but of another kind. The outer islands of Yap are normally closed to foreigners and most of them have never had a gospel witness. The Lord orchestrated our permission to work on these islands through our host missionary, Paul Zimmer. Paul has been helping these islands with solar power capability by a directive from the government. His expertise in this field has been a tremendous help as electricity is so terribly expensive there. The good relationship that he has established with the different island chiefs opened the way for our medical team (a pediatrician and three nurses) and the dental team to be allowed onto those islands. Two locations (Fais and Fallalop), each with 
populations of only several hundred people, were targeted on this trip. A medical and dental clinic was held for several days on both islands and Paul was able to freely preach the gospel during the clinic times and to hold Bible studies at night. These were well attended by about thirty to one hundred people, depending on the location. On the island of Fais, the people refused to leave after the Bible study concluded and so the gospel was shared again and more teaching done! On Fallalop, the chief asked Paul to return and teach them some more as they had never heard the Bible taught like this before. These islands are primitive and remote but there are people there that God loves and wants to save.
