Welcome to our Mission Blog! We hope you will follow along on our journey as we travel to Costa Rica to serve as the hands of Christ. Our group leaves on July 15th and returns on July 23rd. Please keep us in your prayers as we prepare, travel, serve and especially when we return. May we forever have the heart of a servant.
Our Bi-District Team includes youth and adults from the following NOVA churches: Sudley UMC, Bethel UMC, Woodlawn-Faith UMC, Spirit & Life UMC, St. Matthews UMC, Andrew Chapel UMC and Washington Street UMC.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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We are happy that you have arrived safely in Costa Rica to a warm welcome from your hosts. Today, your first day of work, is kind of like the first day of creation, wherein God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light"! This is the light of a new day for you and a new awareness of the amazingly wide world of God's kingdom of love, which has received you so beautifully in Costa Rica.
We offered prayers for you in church yesterday as you were flying south and will continue to pray for you as your team serves as ambassadors for Christ with your new partners in mission there. We hope you will have a ball singing "the Lord's song in a foreign land" (Psalm 137:4), a land that won't seem so foreign in a few days. This is the opportunity of a lifetime that we look forward to your sharing when you return home.
We will be looking for your daily blogs as you share the good things that God is doing through your faithfulness.
Good afternoon, Missioners!
ReplyDeleteWe are happy that you have arrived safely in Costa Rica to a warm welcome from your hosts. Today, your first day of work, is kind of like the first day of creation, wherein God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light"! This is the light of a new day for you and a new awareness of the amazingly wide world of God's kingdom of love, which has received you so beautifully in Costa Rica.
We offered prayers for you in church yesterday as you were flying south and will continue to pray for you as your team serves as ambassadors for Christ with your new partners in mission there. We hope you will have a ball singing "the Lord's song in a foreign land" (Psalm 137:4), a land that won't seem so foreign in a few days. This is the opportunity of a lifetime that we look forward to your sharing when you return home.
We will be looking for your daily blogs as you share the good things that God is doing through your faithfulness.
God bless you richly in all these things!
Yours in Christ,
Jack Martin
Pastor: Bethel UMC