Well, I first want to apologize for it being so long since I last wrote! We have spent the last week in Talamanca, Costa Rica in which we did not have access to the Internet or much civilization! We first had the opportunity to minister to an Indiginous group near Talmanca (near Bribri). In order to get to these people, we had to take a canoe ride for about 15 minutes up a river and from there we walked about half a mile to the church. We spent from Thursday through Sunday ministering in this little village. We stayed in an unfinished government house for the three days. While we were there we did a lot of physical labor helping out with a building project for the church (building the foundation for a kitchen for their church). We also did a couple church services for them and on the last night we were there we did a church vigil where we prayed all night at the church. As a group we were definitely challenged, but we saw a lot of breakthrough in this community during this time.
From Bribri, we went to Talamanca to one of the three YWAM bases in Costa Rica and stayed there. Again, we did a lot of physical labor helping out with landscaping and mostly helping out with a local elementary school painting, landscaping and doing ministry there. The school was very open with us coming and allowed us to come in and take over classes for the day. We taught the kids Bible stories, songs, some English, and played games with them. One thing that I have been amazed at here is the openness of the people to hear about God. Across the street from the school was a man who lost his house in the flood. We were able to help him rebuild his home as well and at the end of the week he asked us to pray for him. God really opened a lot of doors for us to minister which was so great. While we were in Talamanca, they were having a festival for the whole city and they asked us to do a presentation on the stage in the middle of town. There were probably about 500 people there and we presented a couple dramas and then shared the gospel message with the crowd. It was pretty awesome that we could share with so many people without restriction and the people were very open to listen.
This week we are in Puerto Viejo which is on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. Please pray for us as we just got here and start our ministry tomorrow. I dont know for sure what we are doing, but we are excited for the doors that God will open for us here on our last week of outreach!
I will update more when I get the chance...sorry for the quickness but I was just told that it is quiet hours and I need to be in my room!
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