Postcards from the Mission Field - Pacific Costa Rica: 06/26/13

Today was another long and productive work day at the church. We woke up early and stopped by the store to get more supplies. We had two crews again. The painting crew finished painting the entire inside of the pastor's house and the inside of the church. It took all day but when we were finished all the furniture was put back in place and the new paint really made a huge difference!

The trusses crew worked diligently on the 2nd truss and finished it! Tomorrow will be the last truss!

After working all day we got back to the house and had only 45 minutes to shower and get ready for youth group. It was crazy but God blessed us and we were all able to get ready with only 3 showers! We stopped by subway for dinner and then went back to church for youth group. There was about 20 youth who showed up and at first everyone was shy and did not talk much. Rubi had us play a fun get to know you game and soon our students were laughing and connecting to the youth of the church. This was an awesome night of fellowship! There were a few youth who came who had never come to church before! After bonding for about an hour we played the courageous movie in Spanish (with English subtitles). The movie seemed to move a lot of hearts and our students passed out Bibles to everyone. It was hard to say goodbye but we exchanged contact information and we hope to spend some time with some of the youth tomorrow! Pray that we can be used by God to love and encourage the youth tomorrow! Pray for those students who can who have never been to church that they would come back on Sunday morning!