El Mirador 19

About the Trip

A team from Harbor of Hope community will be heading to El Mirador in the Dominican Republic in March 2019 as the third trip as a part of Harbor's partnership with Food for the Hungry in El Mirador. To hear more from some of the team that was on the first trip in August of 2017, listen to their time sharing with their church community here.

See more about what Food for the Hungry did with their initiative Striking out Poverty, which visited El Mirador in 2017, watch the ESPN feature below (El Mirador is featured at the 3:38 mark):

About El Mirador

In October of 2016, Harbor of Hope launched a 10 year commitment through Food for the Hungry to partner with the community of El Mirador, in the Dominican Republic. The community is located in a rural area about an hour north of Santo Domingo, DR. The partnership has the ultimate goal of mutual transformation, both for El Mirador and Harbor of Hope. We believe all of us are impoverished in different ways in four key areas; spiritual, social, physical, and community. We hope as a church to learn from where El Mirador is strong, and that they will learn from us where we are strong.

The community of El Mirador is a rural community, that is lush with greenery. They are a community that loves baseball, and their schedule seems to revolve around it. They are filled with great leadership who is guiding the community to develop through this partnership. God has been working through that community long before we were there, and we are excited to continue to see him work in this partnership.

About Our Partnership

The partnership is guided by the idea that El Mirador already has most of what it needs to succeed. It does not need us to do things for them. Instead, we will be there to walk alongside them and learn from them. We follow the guidance of Food for the Hungry on when the community needs anything additional to that. Food for the Hungry has many people on the ground who are there every day, and are far more effective than we are in helping the community.

Learn more about our partnership below:

Read about our partnership on our website -http://www.harborofhope.org/global/

Read a blog post from Food for the Hungry about our vision trip - https://www.fh.org/2016/10/03/massachusetts-church-finds-fit-missions/