Another First!!

So after last week’s first wedding and first leadership training, yesterday we had another first!  Cristo Rey is a Nicaraguan village at the base of the volcano and right off of the main highway between San Jose and Cartago.  It is extremely poor.  We started ministering there during language school with our friends the Frederiks!  Not sure if you guys remember the start of this part of our ministry so I will give a quick review….

As we would take taxis from San Francisco de Dos Rios (where we lived during language school) to church in Cot here on the volcano, we noticed a very poor squatters village on the side of the highway.  The Lord kept moving Jacob’s heart to go there.  We spoke with our friends the Frederiks and Jacob and Danny decided to go down there together one Saturday!  As their taxi driver was dropping them off, the driver was very concerned asking them if they were sure they wanted to be dropped off there.  The driver was worried that they would be mugged and he made a motion with his finger across his throat …. if that explains his thoughts to you.  They went on anyway and from there began to go once a month to share the gospel with the people there.  After langauge school, it kind of dropped.  We got busy with the ministry here on Irazu and did not seem to have time to get all the way down the volcano to Cristo Rey.  Then perhaps a year or so ago, someone asked us if we could take them down to that village and check it out.  When Jacob returned, he was excited and knew he needed to make an effort to go down at least once a week to Cristo Rey.  He said there were believers there and no one to teach them!  So he began and continues to go down once a week!

So now you are up to date!!  Well, Jacob was asked last week if he would dedicate a baby of one of the believers to the Lord.  Her name is Mebel and her baby is Ashli.  She did not want to take her baby to the catholic church!  She wanted Jacob, just in her house, to pray for the baby and dedicate the baby to God!  So he did just that!!  We are so excited to see how the Lord keeps building His church here and moving forward!

Proverbs 22:6

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

6 Train up a child [a]in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 22:6 Lit according to his way

Here are some pictures!

Author: courtenayfolk

My family and I have been called to the missionfield of Costa Rica. Our mission is to share the message of God's grace with the Ticos there. We live on the Volcano Irazu.

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