{"id":14,"date":"2019-04-03T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/global\/venezuela\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:04:36","slug":"dr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/04\/Dominican_republic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/04\/Dominican_republic.jpg 331w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/04\/Dominican_republic-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission in the Dominican Republic was founded following Hurricane David in 1979 through the efforts of Puerto Rican Brethren who came to the aid of Dominican families in the Viajama community. Numerous Puerto Rican and US Brethren offered support and guidance throughout the past 30 years. Today, there are approximately 1,650 members in 21 congregations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Active evangelism and church planting continue with energy and vitality\u2013most churches have at least one daughter church or preaching point. The Iglesia de los Hermanos in the Dominican Republic continues to work in their respective communities and the work of the Lord Jesus continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News from the Dominican Republic<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"feedzy-7172bdb9f62bc505b31626c94a075b7e feedzy-rss\"><ul><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/global-mission-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"New executive director speaks at Global Mission Dinner\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/NigerianContingentwithSharonNorton-DSC_1370-byDonnaParcell-600px-150x150.jpg\" title=\"New executive director speaks at Global Mission Dinner\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/global-mission-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">New executive director speaks at Global Mission Dinner<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>There were many languages spoken around the tables at the Global Mission Dinner held during Annual Conference, as international guests from several countries joined Sharon Brugger Norton, the new executive director of Global Mission for the Church of the Brethren, under the umbrella of Rev. 21:1-5, \u201cThe leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/edf-grants-to-israel-hamas-war-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Emergency Disaster Fund extends aid to organizations working in response to the Israel-Hamas war, in addition to other grants<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>Recent grants made from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) have been directed by Brethren Disaster Ministries to extend aid to organizations working in response to humanitarian needs created by the war between Israel and Hamas, with the violence now extended beyond Gaza into the West Bank and Lebanon<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/international-guests-at-annual-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">International guests at Annual Conference come from churches in Burundi, Dominican Republic, India, Nigeria, Spain, Venezuela<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>International guests at the 2024 Annual Conference include top leadership from several Church of the Brethren sister denominations around the world as well as a number from B.E.S.T. in Nigeria.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/aid-for-displaced-haitians-in-dr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Brethren Disaster Ministries works with church in the DR to aid displaced Haitians<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>The staff of Brethren Disaster Ministries and Iglesia de los Hermanos (the Church of the Brethren) in the Dominican Republic (DR) are working together on an effort to aid displaced Haitians. A grant of $5,000 is being requested from the Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) to provide emergency food to Haitian citizens fleeing across the border to the Dominican Republic and away from the violence in Haiti. Haiti and the DR share the same Caribbean island.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/global-mission-representatives-visit-dr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Global Mission representatives visit the DR to discuss the separation in the church\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/DRMeeting-600px-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Global Mission representatives visit the DR to discuss the separation in the church\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/global-mission-representatives-visit-dr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Global Mission representatives visit the DR to discuss the separation in the church<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>From June 9-11, as part of an ongoing attempt by the Global Mission office of the Church of the Brethren in the US to encourage unity and reconciliation in the Church of the Brethren in the Dominican Republic (Iglesia de los Hermanos Republica Dominicana), retired pastor Alix Sable of Lancaster, Pa., and Global Food Initiative (GFI) manager Jeff Boshart met with church leaders.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/edf-grants-given\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"EDF grants given for tornado rebuilding project in Kentucky, aid for Ukraine refugees, among other needs\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/BDM-Dawson-Springs-Oct-2022-by-Sammy-Deacon-600px-150x150.jpg\" title=\"EDF grants given for tornado rebuilding project in Kentucky, aid for Ukraine refugees, among other needs\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/edf-grants-given\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">EDF grants given for tornado rebuilding project in Kentucky, aid for Ukraine refugees, among other needs<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>Brethren Disaster Ministries has directed grants from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) for a tornado response and rebuilding program in Kentucky, aid to Ukrainian refugees and others affected by the war, a hurricane response in Honduras, projects of the Church of the Brethren in the Democratic Republic of Congo, among other needs.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/global-church-of-the-brethren-meets-in-dr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Global Church of the Brethren Communion holds meeting in the Dominican Republic\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GlobalCoBCommunionMeeting-byEricMiller-3-350px-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Global Church of the Brethren Communion holds meeting in the Dominican Republic\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/global-church-of-the-brethren-meets-in-dr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Global Church of the Brethren Communion holds meeting in the Dominican Republic<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>For the first time since 2019, leaders of the Global Church of the Brethren Communion met in person, hosted by the Church of the Brethren in the Dominican Republic (DR). Leaders representing Brazil, the DR, Haiti, Honduras, India, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Spain, and the United States met for five days, including days of meetings and visits to agricultural projects.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/hurricane-ian-causes-devastation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Hurricane Ian causes devastation across central Florida, Hurricane Fiona relief continues in Puerto Rico\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/NOAASatelliteImageOfHurricaneIan-600px-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Hurricane Ian causes devastation across central Florida, Hurricane Fiona relief continues in Puerto Rico\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/hurricane-ian-causes-devastation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Hurricane Ian causes devastation across central Florida, Hurricane Fiona relief continues in Puerto Rico<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>Brethren Disaster Ministries staff and the Atlantic Southeast District leadership are continuing to reach out to affected churches and communities to learn of the impact of the storm and the needs that have developed. So far there are no reports of injury among church members, but there is news of minor damage in two churches.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/brethren-in-dr-make-small-important-steps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Brethren in Dominican Republic make small but important steps toward reconciliation\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/DRConference-PresentationofPastors-500px-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Brethren in Dominican Republic make small but important steps toward reconciliation\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/brethren-in-dr-make-small-important-steps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Brethren in Dominican Republic make small but important steps toward reconciliation<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>Small, but important steps were taken this year in the life of Iglesia de los Hermanos (Church of the Brethren) in the Dominican Republic.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><div class=\"rss_image\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2020\/global-mission-creates-country-advisory-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\" title=\"Global Mission creates Country Advisory Teams\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/world-map.gif\" title=\"Global Mission creates Country Advisory Teams\" style=\"height:150px;width:150px;\"><\/a><\/div><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2020\/global-mission-creates-country-advisory-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Global Mission creates Country Advisory Teams<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><p>The Global Mission office of the Church of the Brethren has instituted a new communication tool named Country Advisory Teams (CATs). These teams are a way for the Global Mission leadership to stay informed and better understand each country or region where Church of the Brethren partners are involved.<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul> <\/div><style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{float:left;position:relative;border:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image span{display:inline-block;position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;background-position:50%;background-size:cover}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{margin:.3em 1em 0 0;content-visibility:auto}.feedzy-rss ul{list-style:none}.feedzy-rss ul li{display:inline-block}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission in the Dominican Republic was founded following Hurricane David in 1979 through the efforts of Puerto Rican Brethren who came to the aid of Dominican families in the Viajama community. Numerous Puerto Rican and US Brethren offered support and guidance throughout the past 30 years. Today, there are approximately 1,650 members in 21 congregations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}