Outreach Begins!

Thought I'd update everyone on what's been going on. We've officially moved into the new base, and we've officially ended the lecture phase! Whoo hoo! It's a bitter sweet moment but I'm really excited to see what God has for us now in outreach.

This week we have a four day adventure called NIKO which is a Greek word that is to overcome. As students we don't know what we'll be doing but it's the draw us closer to God and one another. We're going to Talabanca and will be in the forest for four days as students we have no idea what we'll be doing- but that's the idea. After our NIKO time we'll have two weeks outreach in Talabanca. As a team and base we've felt God has called us to have outreach here in Costa Rica. We'll be working in five different locations. I'm super excited about this time.

As a group we've really become more than just friends, but family. So I ask that you'd pray for our group that we'd listen and obey God in what He asks of us in this time!

We're Moving

YWAM San Jose is moving into a new building next weekend! This is really exciting time for this base. This building was originally for growing and processing coffee, and is now being remodeled for YWAM. It's a cool building with a lot of different levels (only two stories right now, but they hope to add two more in the years to come). The base here is beginning to take off. They are now not only having the Class DTS, Compassion DTS (which is what I'm in), but they are beginning a Soccer DTS, and an Extreme DTS. I'm so excited to see what God is going to do with YWAM in this area!!!

Tabarcia

Hey, just realized I never posted about our mini-outreach!

We spent a week in Tabarcia, a city about an hour from here, for a mini-outreach. It was so good to just take time off from classroom life and just go out there and live out what we've learned. We stayed at the Arbol De Vida Iglesia (Tree of Life Church) and participated in their activities.

One day during the week we spent time working in a church camp. The men helped remove and relocate a cabin while the women helped clean the main living areas and bathrooms. The older couple run a Christian camp throughout the year and receive 15-30 young people visit during their ministry.

We also helped out around the church one morning.

We spent time at the daycare running a program for the children involving songs, games, a drama, and a teaching from the Bible.

We helped a beginning ministry by painting, gardening, and digging the foundation for another room. This missionary family is working on having a conference center and a place to house missionaries on visits.


We also shared testimonies and stories and dramas during the three services they had during the week and finished off with Sunday School with the children.

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