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Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Guanacaste
My good friend Hector invited me to go home with him to Guanacaste, a providence in Costa Rica, to spend Christmas and New Years with his family. Another friend of ours, Sarah, who was also away from friends and family back in the US came with us as well and we had a great time. This was our Christmas dinner that we made.
This is us singing praise and worship around a bon fire on Christmas night.
We also hiked part of the way up Volcan Arenal, a highly active volcano in Guanacaste. You can see hot lava tumbling down the volcano.
We also did a canopy tour that had 10 ziplines through the jungle. It was awesome!
We also went horseback riding.
And played on waterfalls!
We also had our unexpected adventures. This iguana ran through my legs into the bed room where it crawled through my clothes and refused to get out. It took us a good while to get him out.
Costa Rica
SAN JOSE
I spent Thanksgiving with my best friend from high school, Sean and his family. Sean and his wife Lindsey are in language school and will eventually go to be missionaries in Honduras. It was nice to not spend Thanksgiving alone and eat some good ol american food!
While there in San Jose, I also got involved with Campus Crusade in Costa Rica. They eventually invited me to come stay in the ministry house where I stayed for the rest of my time in San Jose. Some of the guys in the house are musicians and we played worship at many crusade events and church services.
SARAPIQUI
I was invited to go on a mission trip organized by the Rotary Club where we put on Christmas Parties for children in poor villages along the San Juan river between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In the picture to the left we are loading hundreds and hundreds of wrapped Christmas presents onto boats to take up the river.
At these parties we sang Christmas songs, put on puppet shows, played tons of games, gave out presents and also gave a gospel presentation.
There was a monkey at the mission where we stayed that took a liking to me. The monkey has been known to bite people, but he just wanted to cuttle with me. Maybe thats cause I fed him papaya and scratched his belly.
One thing that I really liked about the mission is that it is almost completely self-sustaining. Most of the food comes fresh from the gardens or animals there. And money for gas comes from the selling of cheese that we made there or bananas from the finca on the property.
Every morning we got up around 5am for prayer and then worked on the farm either milking cows, getting eggs from the chickens, working in the garden, or whatever other chore needed to be done. Then after lunch, we would boat to a village to put on a Christmas party with the kids.
This is the Sarapiqui Team. But after this trip, almost all of these people headed back San Jose, but I stayed for another week to continue the mission into Nicaragua towards San Juan.
SAN JUAN
This is the San Juan team that traveled into Nicaragua doing more Christmas parties with villages along the river including an indigenous people group called the Ramas. This picture is at a place where the San Juan river dumps into the ocean.
Giving out Christmas gifts.
A Rama indian family. The father was completely drunk, but really wanted a Bible. So we gave him one and there he is reading it. Alcoholism is a big problem among the Rama indians.
Leading worship at a Christmas party.
This is me preaching at a church service.
Ok this is a coral snake that was found on the ground near my tent. These snakes are highly venomous!
I spent Thanksgiving with my best friend from high school, Sean and his family. Sean and his wife Lindsey are in language school and will eventually go to be missionaries in Honduras. It was nice to not spend Thanksgiving alone and eat some good ol american food!
While there in San Jose, I also got involved with Campus Crusade in Costa Rica. They eventually invited me to come stay in the ministry house where I stayed for the rest of my time in San Jose. Some of the guys in the house are musicians and we played worship at many crusade events and church services.SARAPIQUI
I was invited to go on a mission trip organized by the Rotary Club where we put on Christmas Parties for children in poor villages along the San Juan river between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In the picture to the left we are loading hundreds and hundreds of wrapped Christmas presents onto boats to take up the river.
At these parties we sang Christmas songs, put on puppet shows, played tons of games, gave out presents and also gave a gospel presentation.
There was a monkey at the mission where we stayed that took a liking to me. The monkey has been known to bite people, but he just wanted to cuttle with me. Maybe thats cause I fed him papaya and scratched his belly.
One thing that I really liked about the mission is that it is almost completely self-sustaining. Most of the food comes fresh from the gardens or animals there. And money for gas comes from the selling of cheese that we made there or bananas from the finca on the property. 
Every morning we got up around 5am for prayer and then worked on the farm either milking cows, getting eggs from the chickens, working in the garden, or whatever other chore needed to be done. Then after lunch, we would boat to a village to put on a Christmas party with the kids.
This is the Sarapiqui Team. But after this trip, almost all of these people headed back San Jose, but I stayed for another week to continue the mission into Nicaragua towards San Juan.SAN JUAN
This is the San Juan team that traveled into Nicaragua doing more Christmas parties with villages along the river including an indigenous people group called the Ramas. This picture is at a place where the San Juan river dumps into the ocean.
Giving out Christmas gifts.
A Rama indian family. The father was completely drunk, but really wanted a Bible. So we gave him one and there he is reading it. Alcoholism is a big problem among the Rama indians.
Leading worship at a Christmas party.
This is me preaching at a church service.
Ok this is a coral snake that was found on the ground near my tent. These snakes are highly venomous!
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