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The race was meant to promote exercise among the men and women who minister in churches across the Caribbean.
September 14, 2024 | Punta Cana, Dominican Republic | Libna Stevens, Inter-American Division News
Dozens of Adventist men and women, each one a pastor or a pastor’s spouse, woke up at dawn to be part of a 5K run, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, during the Inter-American Division’s (IAD) ministerial retreat last week.
The run was meant to promote exercise in a profession that has many pastoral couples in a rat race every day as they minister up to 20 churches in their district, organizers said.
The race was meant to promote exercise among the men and women who minister in churches across the Caribbean.
September 14, 2024 | Punta Cana, Dominican Republic | Libna Stevens, Inter-American Division News
Dozens of Adventist men and women, each one a pastor or a pastor’s spouse, woke up at dawn to be part of a 5K run, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, during the Inter-American Division’s (IAD) ministerial retreat last week.
The run was meant to promote exercise in a profession that has many pastoral couples in a rat race every day as they minister up to 20 churches in their district, organizers said.
“This is not a race just to run, but a race for ministerial health,” said Isaías Espinoza, publishing ministries director of the IAD in charge of the activity, as he addressed the more than 100 persons before the race started.
“We have a great deficit in the ministerial body of pastors who do not exercise and that is of great concern because we know that the body unites with the spirit,” said Espinoza. “Remember what we think is reflected in our actions so the wish of the church in Inter-America is for more pastors to have a healthy lifestyle not only for the body but in the three dimensions that the church highlights: body, mind and spirit.”
To reward the three top winners for the men and the women separately, there would be cash prizes, announced Espinoza, Prayers were offered moments before the race started.
