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We thank the Lord that HE is still calling laborers into His field. Jeffri and Pamela Polanco are currently on deputation and are excited about working together with us to start this new church plant. The Lord has brought us together with the goal of establishing churches in the Northern Dominican Republic and training national pastors and young men to go out and do the same.
I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was ten years old when I came to the United States of America. As a child, I was introduced to numerous different charismatic churches and made a promise that I would never go to church again because I saw people speak in tongues and many other things. When I was thirteen years old, I was pursuing a dream of making it to the MLB, and therefore began to look for baseball teams to play for. I was introduced to the High School baseball team that Woodlawn Baptist Church had and at my first practice, I heard a clear presentation of the gospel and accepted Christ as my Savior. After that, I began to attend church faithfully and sat under the preaching of Dr. Ron Fenwick. His preaching transformed my life.
I met my wife on a missions trip in the Dominican Republic in 2013 and we got married on May of 2016. Pamela was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. She grew up in a family that never had any religious practice and where they had atheist influence. She got saved and is a product Iglesia Bautista el Faro, a church planted by a BIMI missionary. Ever since she got saved, she told herself, “If someone was willing to leave all that he possessed in America to come to my country to win the lost to Christ, the least I can do is likewise.”