General Assembly and Two Great W&W Teams
We hosted a superb group from Bakersfield, CA who worked with the North district at two
locations.
San Ramon is a city where we have wanted to plant a church
for many years, and it is finally happening.
Pastor Alex is an experienced church planter, and he has begun the work
in San Ramon while he pastors his own church in Barrio San Jose in
Alajuela.
The team spent two days in San Ramon painting a children’s basketball court and doing face painting, making animal balloons and conversing in the central park. The cell group of about 10 people in San Ramon was encouraged with the work and the outreach.
This same team worked at the Barrio San Jose Church building two offices. This is a real blessing to the pastor who did not have an office of his own before. The team also worked in a local public school and their testimony was so wonderful that the director asked them to stay another week!
Then the General Assembly and Conventions took place in
Indianapolis, USA. This event has nearly 20,000 in
attendance so there is lots of preparation that goes into running a booth at
this event. Publications and materials
are developed, the designs for the booth are made, and this year we held a
SENDAS Gathering event for the very first time.
Everything went really well.
Before the event ended, we returned to Costa Rica to prepare
for the next team. The Eagle Church of
the Nazarene team from Idaho worked at the Los Angeles Church and surprised
everyone by the amount of work that got done in one week. Two concrete floors were poured (no cement
truck involved!) and a block wall was built.
But beyond that, the team of five families (half kids and teens) helped
the local church with their Vacation Bible School. What a blessing to work with the children and
to hold two sports activities at a local basketball court. The biggest blessing
was to see some new families attend the Sunday morning service from the
outreach at the court. God is good!
We feel so blessed to have successfully led (with help from
volunteers) 8 teams already this year.
There are still a few to go, but already the work accomplished alongside
the local churches is phenomenal. We
hope to have the dedication of the Los Angeles building as soon as the month of
August. That will be quite a
celebration!
We are in Iowa as I write this to speak at the Iowa NMI Convention and the Ames Church. More on that next month.
Upcoming events:
1. Preparing for the
July teams to Quebrada Grande and Muelle CR North District Center project.
2. Getting ready for
the NorCal Team for SENDAS.
3. Trying to keep up
with the daily work at SENDAS and the two districts.
4. Preparing for Home
Assignment in September and October 2017.
We appreciate your prayers for Joshua and Kayley. We are thankful they are both doing well in
Ohio, but we do miss them.
David and Shelley
Your missionaries, happily serving in Costa Rica
