Kenilworth Union Church

Los Ticos! 

We are the staff for the week! Laura, Yahaira, Nazareth, Sammy, Cristian, Henry, Roxana, Jacqueline, Ronnie, and Fio are here ready and excited to serve with you all! We can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store for everyone! 

This will be an amazing week! 

We made it to Costa Rica safe and sound! 

We ate delicious food! We are ready! 

Three buses, all packed up, and lots of memories to make here! 

This week has begun! 

We made it to our host church! 

We were received with a warm welcome and so much love! We can’t wait to start this week of service alongside Pastora Ivania in Puerto Viejo, Sarapiqui! 

We had our Orientation meeting. The PPM Staff members helped us remember how to stay healthy to be ready for the week! 

We had an amazing church service this morning. We danced with the dancing girls and it was an amazing God moment when the church sang Way Maker, our trip song theme! 

We spent sometime with Pastora Ivania. She opened her heart and shared with us her life and struggles. She is such an strong woman of God who has trusted and has listened to the Lord! 

Today we did food distribution in Rio Frio. We got to visit 3 homes. One of the ladies we visited is Tamara. She and her family serve in church. They have been through tough times but the Lord has always been with them.

In this construction site, we were able to sand the walls of the church’s columns. We will be preparing all the walls to give a new look to the church. We also are working on the new ceiling of Pastora’s office! 

Part of the team went to a school at El Amigo to spend time with the children.

We shared a story about Moses and the Israelites and how God protected them from the Egyptians. Then we played games with the kids! 

This morning we went to Estero Grande School and we had a great time with the children! 

We played "What time is it Mr. Fox" and we enjoyed watching all those kids running and laughing! 

After that we shared the story about Daniel in the Lion's den. 

The construction project has not stopped!

The group has worked hard to ensure that the bases of the kitchen are well done. 

Today we began working on the kitchen floor of the church and also we painted the living room and kitchen of Pastor's house.

We are working to serve in the best way possible.

Today in Rio Frio we meet Ivannia. She has 3 beautiful children and she shared her impactful testimony with us. God has used all the hardships and struggles to make her a strong woman but she never forgets that without God we can do nothing.

Today, we had so much fun learning with the kids about the story of Daniel and the Lion’s Den. The students perform the story and the kids loved them so much! We had a time to play, for the craft and also to worship the Lord. 

Today in VBS we learned about the good samaritan and how God wants to care and love for our neighbors. We also sang happy birthday to one of the day care kids.

We kept working on the walls of the church. We are now painting the church but we are also cleaning the yard at the church. 

Yesterday in the morning we had VBS at the church in El Amigo. 

Many kids from the commuinty came to share with us, we had so much fun playing games and we also were able to relate with them through laughter! 

Yesterday in the afternoon we continue working hard to finish part of the kitchen!

Even the rain didn't stop us to work for the Lord, we are more than blessed! 

Yesterday during food distruibition we meet two wonderful ladies who shared about their path in the Lord and how He preformed powerful miracles in their lives! 

God used those testimonies to increas our faith in the Him! 

This morning we went to the school for VBS, basicly it was our last day of ministry and we didn't want to wast no time! 

We enjoyed watching the kids running, laughing and hugging us while we were saying goodbye!

We had our last day with the kids, we learned about Jesus calming the storm, played with chalk and bubbles, and then had to say good bye. We're sad to leave them buy we're happy we got to know them and that we had quality time with them sharing the love of God.

We worked hard this week and we were able accomplish our goal. Pastor Gerson and Pastora Juliette are very gratefull with God and our team for everything that happened this week.

We had an amazing final day of ministry. Many things happened and God was glorified. 

In the Agape site, we kept working on the painting, we had an amazing time with the kids at Magdalena and blessed three amazing ladies from the kitchen!