Serving Further
// Jeanne DeTellis Loudon
The history of New Missions expanding into the Dominican Republic started in the early 90s with a burden for the Haitian community living in the DR.
In 1999, we began in Redemption Village— a Haitian community. Our love for God and the people quickly grew. In 2000, we felt led to begin an international church (New Life Church) and also a Bible school.
Our newest campus in Los Castillos serves Haitians from Redemption Village.
When our New Life Church facility was too small to house our Dominican services, we purchased land in Playa Chiquita in 2006, and started a Dominican church, preschool, and a health center. Dominican families began coming to church from further away in Playa Laguna.
The health center in Playa Chiquita, Dominican Republic, serves families across the North Coast of Sosua.
As a result of doing street evangelism in Bombita, we began a church and school and eventually purchased a small piece of land on the main highway. A tent was used for church and school for seven years, and finally in 2012, a campus was built. We started a home church there, and eventually built a permanent church and preschool in 2014. In 2019, we relocated the school from Redemption Village to Los Castillos where we built a campus with a church and school.
Our Bombita Elementary School and church has a new generation of leaders on the rise.
Today, in the Dominican Republic, we have five churches, five schools, and a health clinic. Our present leadership is Dominican-driven under the direction of Heather Williams Katz and her husband, Dr. Arismendy Katz. ~Jeanne DeTellis Loudon
