Flores & Faith

Sunflowers. A house painted with sunflowers on Santiago's downtown mural tour. Think I can convince Rafa to move here? I never really knew they were my favorite flower until all of the sudden, they became my favorite flower. When I was growing up, we had a vegetable garden in the backyard and then different small flower gardens around the house, by the deck. In the backyard, Mom always planted sunflowers, and I loved how tall they were, so different from the wildflowers. When I left for college, mom would text me updates on how tall her sunflowers were getting. Now living in the Dominican Republic, I think of my family every time I see a sunflower and now I’m the one texting pictures of sunflowers and other flowers. A sunflower field at Santiago's gardens! During the height of the pandemic restrictions and curfews in 2020, the days became quite lonely. I started a few painting projects, one being a big sunflower. I’m definitely not an artist, but had a lot of fun creating it an...

Hi there. I'm Jamielynn Tinkey Flores.  For by GRACE you have been saved through FAITH. And this is not your own doing; it is the GIFT of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9 After graduating from Valparaiso University School of Nursing, I became a missionary with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in July 2016. I moved to the Dominican Republic and have been serving ever since with the LCMS mission team in Latin America and the Caribbean.  January 24, 2017 - Arrival to the Dominican Republic I first came to the Dominican Republic (with a two year commitment) to serve alongside the church in this place and throughout Latin America. My main focus for my first three years of service was on missionary care, advocating for our missionaries and their families serving from Mexico down to Uruguay, in ten different countries.  Missionary women who serve around Latin America praying together at our 2018 missionary retreat As our team conti...