Costa Rica

As many of you already know we took a missions trip with our church youth group this summer to Pura Vida Missions in Costa Rica. Amazingly enough the base we were staying at was just down the street from the Cowboys With A Mission base.

This trip brought back so many memories of our Mission Adventure days. The program our group went through was exactly like the MA program we ran at CWAM.

We had a hard, challenging, life changing, fun, amazing, hot and sweaty time during this missions trip.

This was our sleeping quarters for several nights during the training phase of our outreach. I ran for the bottom bunk. There was no way I was climbing up to the third bunk when lights went out.

Our outreach was at Jaco Beach with a Mennonite church that was just establishing their congregation about 1/2 mile from the beach. It was 95 degrees and 100% humidity while we were there. By far the hottest and sweatiest outreach I've been on.

Jaco Beach is a surfing town. Can you tell??
Arlan had a lot of fun kicking around the soccer ball with one of the kids from the church.

At the church we did several work projects. Fixing the moldy ceiling was one job that required you to drip in sweat.....no, let me rephrase that......get completely drenched in sweat. It was a mess.
Fixed some of the holes in the floor with concrete.Every afternoon we had kids club or vacation Bible school for the community kids. Everyone was involved with this and it was a great time to interact with all the people around us.

It was great to see the youth grow deeper in their relationship with God and go to many uncomfortable lengths to serve those around us. We are very proud of them and all they did and gave up during this trip.