Can you think of anything more important than saving someone from dying?

At LoveServes, we get to be part of God’s work of saving lives—not only the physical but also their souls for all eternity. God is saving lives from drug addicts, children being trafficked, and women being abused. Read more about a one-legged madman whom God used to save a life.

This story starts with a young Dominican named Luis Rodriguez whose mother left to escape the abuse of his father. His situation at home, with an alcoholic father and no mother to nurture him, got so bad that Luis hit the streets. He became a class-A drug dealer and leader of the most dangerous gang in Bonao. After suffering a mental breakdown and attempting suicide, Luis was taken in by the Church Primitiva and turned his life over to Christ. He met his wife, Marioli, at church and graduated as an electrician through the technical ministry.

One evening, while Luis and his new bride were eating in a restaurant, they saw something frightful. Just outside the restaurant was Hipolito, a one-legged drug addict, with a bottle of rum in one hand and a machete in the other, demanding food from a street vendor. Luis risked everything when he approached Hipolito and began to share how Jesus loved him. Love him? Hipolito was a self-proclaimed madman who was wanted by the police, never bathed, and spent his days hopping on one leg, starting fights and threatening with his machete anyone who got in his way.

Luis Rodriguez in blue shirt and Hipolito on far right