La Romana Mission Team

01/27/2026

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12/05/2025

Team La Romana - please share the auction with friends and family! We need more bids!

Silent auction 'La Romana Online Benefit Auction 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.

10/19/2025

We are looking for sponsors for the Walk on the Wildside. If you are a fan of the La Romana mission team and can help the team, please choose a person to sponsor and help offset travel expenses. The cost of the trip is $1600 per traveler, plus we ask each person to raise $1K towards trip costs.

Walk on the Wild Side is our annual fundraiser for First Church, and its ministries. You have the choice of walking to collect pledges for our LaRomana Mission or the First Church general fund.

10/19/2025

Today we had the youth walk with 6 of us walking the railtrail in Sterling.

10/16/2025

Team 2026, the CORI was not attached in the application, I've posted it with the application and the info guide to the google drive.

10/01/2025

La Roman Mission Team 2026, The Walk on the Wildside fundraiser website is up and ready for you to sign up and start asking for sponsorships. For every $1 you raise, $.50 will go to your travel costs and $.50 will go to the mission costs. You can raise money as an individual, or as a team/group.
There will be a community walk directly after First Church in Sterling service on October 26th at Sholan Farms with cider donuts and cider to sustain you! Or if you can't make that date, don't worry, just walk a trail from October 11th-26th, either at Sholan Farms or a trail of your choice to meet your walkathon goal. Let's all walk in October for La Romana!!

Walk on the Wild Side is our annual fundraiser for First Church, and its ministries. You have the choice of walking to collect pledges for our LaRomana Mission or the First Church general fund.

09/19/2025

This Sunday, September 21st is our La Romana Informational, both an in person meeting and via zoom for anyone considering traveling on the trip. Please join us. Files have been posted to a shared google drive for the application and the Information Packet.

Topic: Central MA La Romana Medical Mission Info Meeting
Time: Sep 21, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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07/30/2025

Happy Summer to our La Romana Mission Friends!

We have scheduled important upcoming dates as events in prep for next year's trip. If you or someone you know is interested in joining in 2026, we are targeting February vacation week.
We hope to travel Friday February 13th, 2026 and return on Sunday February 22nd, 2026.

Please join us at First Church in Sterling for a visit from Estella & family on Sunday August 17th. We ask all past and more recent La Romana travelers to wear their t-shirts and gather after service to share the mission's importance with others interested.

Our La Romana Informational meeeting will be at First Church in Sterling on Sunday September 14th, at 11:30 am.

Our La Romana Kickoff meeting will be Sunday evening September 28th at 7:00 PM, in person and virtual via zoom.
We hope to keep the costs the same - $1600.
Deposits will be due October 1st, November 1st, December 1st.

02/15/2025

The Hybrid Box Lunch Auction is up and running!!! You can see some of the baskets already, more will be added over the next 24 hours. Bid often and bid high - The La Romana Team needs your help! And please share!!!
Here is the explanation in case you haven't heard:

Friends, due to the uncertainty of this weekend’s forecast, the La Romana Box Lunch Auction is now a hybrid event!! We will have the in-person auction IF POSSIBLE…However, In case we can’t be in-person, our 32Auctions Website is up and we are adding the baskets onto the website as the descriptions and photos come in - You can ALREADY view items and enter bids! Keep in mind that new baskets will continue to be added, possibly through Sunday morning.

IF we are ABLE to hold the in-person event, we will end the online auction at 11AM on Sunday. The online bids will be honored and set as the opening bid. If we are UNABLE to hold the event in-person, the online auction will run until 8pm on Sunday.

So - if you have offered, please continue making your baskets!! Non perishable baskets can be dropped off at church on Saturday morning 10-2. If we can’t hold the in–person event, we will make arrangements for delivery of baskets. An email went out to all basket makers - please let us know if you didn’t get that email.

The Auction site also has sponsorship opportunities! We are still far from our goal of fully funding our trip, and we need everyone’s help. Remember Bid high, Bid often and SHARE!! And purchase one of our sponsorships if you can. Contact Jenn Colburn 978-333-4103 [email protected] or Erin O’Connor 617-320-3301 [email protected] with any questions.

Silent auction 'La Romana Valentine's Weekend Box Lunch Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

10/09/2024

Robin Bartlett posted this today. Thank you.

Prayer for those facing Hurricane Milton
By Miren Tirabassi

God, bless those who wait for the storm,
that grows in width and strength
with every hour.
Guide the evacuation
in its deep sadness, hurried choices,
lack of needed gasoline
and sustain those who wait
to care for ones who must remain.

As Christ walked across the waters
so walk through the storm
giving courage and kindness and hope.

Holy One, we pray for people trained
to respond to disaster
stretching to their very limits today.
And also for those called
to respond in the moment,
give wisdom in their compassion.

And we continue in our prayers
without ceasing for everyone
hunting, weeping, cleaning,
grieving, hurt, unhoused
after the devastations of Helene,
whose lives
spun out of control
in last week's winds,
and who are far from gathered again.
Tenderly guide them to offered help.

As the winds rise, bring peace;
as the world spins, bring rescue;
as the floods grow,
bring care and hope and help. amen.

07/03/2024

I love starting the day with surprise packages!! Thank you N Perez from the Bronx!!