After the Charleston team left, we moved into our new home just up the road from the camp. It is the future retirement home of Pastor Jerry Russell from Maryville, TN. Jerry has been bringing teams from his church to the camp since the early 1990s. We were so blessed to discover we had housing arranged for us when we arrived, thanks to Jerry, who also is involved with the nonprofit organization, Samaritan Hands, through whom we send the majority of our financial support.
Amanda from Rockville stayed with us until Wednesday of this week and continued working as a missionary on the construction sites at the new cabin and in Santa Rosa. Amanda will be returning to the camp in May to search her heart to see if this is the place where God might be calling her next. She feels the same peace and sense of calling here that I felt when I first arrived in Costa Rica over 3 years ago. Please pray for her as she searches her heart for her next step on her walk with Christ.
Part of Brooke’s responsibilities this week was to help clean cabins to prepare for the next group of teams, as well as tend to some dogs. The camp is an animal shelter to a certain degree, in that locals drop their dogs off when they don’t want them anymore. This means the camp has to care for about 15 dogs at any one time. A girl from the Charleston group adopted one of the dogs, known as Mamacíta, but she had to get all the dog’s rabies shots and certificate of good health a month before she could take it to the U.S.. Luckily, there is no quarantine once the dog arrives in the States, so after all the paperwork in Costa Rica is done, the process is fairly simple. If Brett and I decide to come home in May to visit, we will bring Mama with us, and she will be a bilingual, US citizen. Brooke had to get Mama’s rabies shots as well as take another dog, Sunshine, to get medication for mange. Since we have been at the camp, 3 puppies have been abandoned at the camp. Thanks to God, we found homes for all 3 of them. Although they do bring a lot of joy to the camp, it is a weekly task to find homes and properly care for these dogs.
We have been going to church in Santa Rosa, and Pastor Giovanny has already put us in his books as members, so I guess God has already provided us with a church home here!
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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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