Our Costa Rica Team of 36 Volunteers: Vacation Bible School Team

12/31/07

Vacation Bible School Team

The team will present a 5 day Bible School to the children in the orphanage and the children living in the area. The theme is Hot-Air Balloon On the Loose, Getting Home!
It is a bilingual program with music CDs and story CDs in Spanish. Each Day the children learn how God brings them closer to Him through covenants, forgiveness, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and The Community of Believers.

Background Information

Our work group of 36 volunteers under VIM leader Beverly Nolte will travel to Costa Rica from Jan. 5th through the 18th to help with designated projects. We will be working under the leadership of Charlie Strong who with his wife have established Strong Missions to assist the children of Costa Rica. Charlie is a registered individual volunteer with UMVIM. One of the main focuses will be working with Hogar Vista de Mar (View of the Sea Home), an orphanage housing eighty children ranging in age from infants to 12 years old. Many work projects will be available which will include painting at the orphanage, building a home for a family, renovating a Methodist Church in San Jose, caring for the medical needs of the people, presenting a 5 day Bible School, providing hair cuts and taking part in a children's feeding program.