Celebrations: A Wedding, Two Reunions, Three New CALL Students, Six Baptisms, and Eighteen participants in a Conference

There is much to tell since the last Webb Page Update. 

Let’s start with a wedding, but not just any wedding: a wedding between two of our long time missionary friends.  David Campos from El Salvador who serves in Haiti married Erika Chavez from the Poas Church here in Costa Rica who served until just recently in the Dominican Republic.  Anytime a missionary marries, it is a big deal, but when two marry each other, it is a BIG party!  We have known David since our days in Guatemala (10 years ago) and Erika not much less time as she has attended the La Finca Poas Church all her life.  We cannot remember our first encounter with Erika, but we imagine it was in 2008.  These two will return to the mission field in Haiti in a couple months.  They are what we refer to as a Power Couple!  Cannot wait to see how God uses them TOGETHER in Haiti. 

Congrats to Erika and David

Two former CALL students returned for short visits and had time to visit with their teachers.  Pam Tooley and Dr. Fairbanks enjoyed their talks with Profesora Gaby.  We love when our students return, and we are never surprised when they ask to see their teachers once again!  We are blessed with awesome and wonderful profs.

Nothing is more exciting in ministry than helping someone to learn and grow and then send them out to serve.  We get to do that a lot and it is always a blessing.  This month, after many hours of Spanish study, Abby Anderson completed the course and is ready to serve as a Genesis missionary in the DR.  She is training now and will be deployed shortly.  Keep her and the other new Genesis missionaries in your prayers.  (Read more about it at www.mesoamericagenesis.org).

Abby had the experience of aquanaut.  She is at the bottom of the ocean walking around. Amazing!

Three new students arrived for CALL with the MNU Student Teaching program.  We are so pleased to have Jared, Tyler and Jordan with us on campus.  They are doing well at student teaching in this new and different culture.  They have many adventures planned during their one month stay, including waterfalls, the beach and a volcano!

David traveled to Sarapiqui recently to visit the Las Marias Church. It is located northeast of the city in the middle of acres and acres of banana trees.  Hot and beautiful!  David and Pastor William went last Sunday to visit and baptize six of the congregation who have completed a Basic Discipleship class.  It took much longer than expected because the area had not had much rain this month and the rivers are a bit dry.  They drove an hour and half to find a river with enough water to baptize!  They wanted the full effect, no sprinking of water for these people! 

As a thank you, the church gave David a few bananas!

Kayley has been busy with school projects.  This is her senior year, so graduation is right around the corner in June.  In her Physics class, they used the idea of the zipline (canopy), which is very popular in Costa Rica, to study the physics of how to design the tour.  Kayley and her friend went all our using paper mache to build the mountains and the course.  Great work, Kayley! 

Kayley has made the El Alto Church her home church and is now beginning to teach Sunday School.  Here she is with her own class of teens.

Kayley made a big decision this month to attend Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) in Ohio, just as her brother did.  She is planning on majoring in Nursing.   Lots of changes ahead for her (and for her parents!).

David also has made a couple of visits to the Limon church, located on the Caribbean coast.  This port city has many issues with drugs and crime, but the Church is flourishing there.  A team from Tennessee will be arriving next week and David will be working with them to support this New Start church. 

Shelley has been translating and working with two different retreats/conferences in these days.  The Seminary Presidents from the Mesoamerica Region were on campus for one week, and then the Global Consortium (Presidents and leaders from Post-Graduate Institutions) from around the world was in Costa Rica.  We hosted both groups and it was a great time, but a busy time.  Shelley translated until she could translate no more!  We are blessed to work with such great leaders from around the world: Australia, United Kingdom, Korea, Philippines, USA and Costa Rica.

Some of the Seminary Presidents from the Mesoamerica Region

Leaders of Post-Graduate Institutions around the world

Joshua is finishing his college experience and has just two more weeks until graduation. He plans on staying in Mount Vernon for one month, and then make the move to Columbus, Ohio. Pray with us that God will provide just the right job at the right moment for him.

Coming up soon:

Evangelism Team to Limon – next week

MVNU graduation, April 30^th

Missionary Retreat in Panama –May

Kayley’s graduation – June 18

Thanks for your prayers and support.  And thanks for reading this long post!

We appreciate you.

The Webb family