After Christmas break last year, Laura recounted to us her harrowing mission stories from her time with her 8th grade class and sponsors as they and Arthur had just returned from the Dominican Republic. Laura shared her life-changing experience of helping orphans and conducting two vacation Bible Schools daily, for around 250 kids total. Arthur was working with almost 100 Maranatha volunteers building a church from scratch. We just praise the Lord they survived to tell the tales as Arthur almost cut his legs off with a masonry saw that had a sticky power switch and Laura got to see 12" spiders in the building where she
