We arrived in Costa Rica on Thursday, Feb 21, and stayed at a mission house in San Jose known as the AMCA house. This mission house is sponsored by Latin American Mission and houses mission teams, provides a place for meetings and Bible Studies, as well as hosts English Classes for Costa Ricans. Since Brooke taught English here last year, we had a connection with this place, and therefore decided to start our journey here.
While in San Jose, we visited friends we had connected with the previous year, such as our host family and former tutor. We also caught up with a couple of the missions we were involved with in La Carpio and Casa Café.
La Carpio is a precario, or shanty town, which is known as one of the most dangerous squaters villages in San Jose. Brooke helped establish a kids ministry with fellow language school students back in the Fall of 2006. There are still groups from the language school that bring Christ’s love to these kids every Thursday. The missionaries that run a church/community center in the area of La Carpio known as La Cueva, or “the cave,” are Steve “Lalo” Edwards and Antonio Yervis with Community of Faith Mission based out of Houston, TX. Throughout the year they coach a championship soccer team for a little league of 12 year olds as well as a team for high school kids. They also host short term medical missions with their sponsoring churches from Texas.
We also caught up with Keith Britton, a missionary with Commission to Every Nation. Brett worked with him last year in another precario in San Jose known as Los Guido and also at a men’s rehab center known as casa C.A.F.E., which stands for “Casa de Amor, Fe, y Esperanza,” or “house of love, faith, and hope.” We visited C.A.F.E. to see about helping them design a bathroom addition. Brett had helped design and oversee part of the construction of a bedroom addition last year, when there were about 24 residents at the center. Now there are only 4 residents because of some issues with their facilities…they have to build more bathrooms in order to host more residents.
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The main focus of the woodworking portion of our mission is to complete projects for local churches, their members, and people in our community. The aspiration of long term training of locals has not yet been realized.
Churches buildings in Costa Rica have recently been subject to additions to and a more strict adherence to the building code. To help with renovating existing campuses, we have undertaken architectural surveys and drawn plans of several church buildings in the Northern Zone. These surveys can then be utilized in renovations and modifications, to avoid closure by the Ministry of Health.
Several days a week, we work with middle and high school students to assist them in remedial learning and all current subject matter. This work has been realized in a number of communities around Ciudad Quesada. We are also assisting students in a home schooling program developed by the Minstry of Education, known as "Maestro en Casa." The program was designed to facilitate the advancement of people who want to persue their education from home.
We a variable number of classes at any one time. Brooke´s one-on-one classes with students in our community have been especially effective. We have also been teaching a larger class in the church in Ciudad Quesada. We have found that the setting of the English class has allowed us to form close relationships with the residents in our community.
We are youth diresctors of our local church in Santa Rosa de la Palmera, The youth are a group of middle and high school students. On Sunday mornings during the regular service we meet with them to read the Bible, discuss scripture and pray. Saturday evenings we try to combine fun activities and games with scripture lessons and group discussions. We focus on how to apply biblical lessons to their everyday lives. The group usually consists of 8 to 12 participants.
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- Brooke and Brett
- We have been serving as missionaries in San Carlos, Costa Rica since February 2008, thanks to the help of various churches that support us. Our mission has been several fold. Using woodworking, architecture, tutoring, english classes, youth work, and direct involvement in our community, we pray we will bear fruit for the Kingdom.
Brett and Brooke Gerbracht
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WOODWORKING
The main focus of the woodworking portion of our mission is to complete projects for local churches, their members, and people in our community. The aspiration of long term training of locals has not yet been realized.
ARCHITECTURE
Churches buildings in Costa Rica have recently been subject to additions to and a more strict adherence to the building code. To help with renovating existing campuses, we have undertaken architectural surveys and drawn plans of several church buildings in the Northern Zone. These surveys can then be utilized in renovations and modifications, to avoid closure by the Ministry of Health.
TUTORING
Several days a week, we work with middle and high school students to assist them in remedial learning and all current subject matter. This work has been realized in a number of communities around Ciudad Quesada. We are also assisting students in a home schooling program developed by the Minstry of Education, known as "Maestro en Casa." The program was designed to facilitate the advancement of people who want to persue their education from home.
ENGLISH
We a variable number of classes at any one time. Brooke´s one-on-one classes with students in our community have been especially effective. We have also been teaching a larger class in the church in Ciudad Quesada. We have found that the setting of the English class has allowed us to form close relationships with the residents in our community.
YOUTH MINISTRY
We are youth diresctors of our local church in Santa Rosa de la Palmera, The youth are a group of middle and high school students. On Sunday mornings during the regular service we meet with them to read the Bible, discuss scripture and pray. Saturday evenings we try to combine fun activities and games with scripture lessons and group discussions. We focus on how to apply biblical lessons to their everyday lives. The group usually consists of 8 to 12 participants.
SEWING
Brooke led two cross stitch courses, one with the help of a local woman, Doña Teresa, and another on her own. During the first class, Doña Teresa taught the sewing portion, while Brooke led a Bible Study. Twenty women were attending by the time the course ended. Since then Brooke has trained a small group of women, so they can in turn teach others in the community of Linda Vista.
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