From July 4-17, 2010, Pacific Crossroads Church (PCC) will be sending a team of six men and women to San Jose, Costa Rica to partner with Tom and Sara Marcus, local missionaries from Huntington Beach, CA. The Marcus family moved to Costa Rica nearly 8 years ago when Tom was offered the school administrator position at Portantorchas (which translates to "Torchbearers" in Spanish). Portantorchas is part of the Capernway Torchbearer International (http://www.torchbearers.org/) ministries, which has 26 centers located on 20 countries. Each center takes students on a two year study on the person and work of Jesus Christ. The unique part of these courses is that they are taught in the native language of the country hosting the center.
For the first week of our trip we will be working at a local orphanage...painting the inside and outside of the orphanage as well as teaching VBS and English to the kids at the orphanage. During the second week of our trip, we will be fixing and cleaning the house of a local disabled woman in the community. Additionally, we will be working at local drug rehabilitation centers and homeless shelters.
We are excited about this opportunity to serve the people of Costa Rica and see how God is moving throughout the country and its people. We want to thank each of you for your support and we ask that you continue to cover us with your prayers during our time in Costa Rica. We created this blog to allow each of you to see and experience everything we are going through in Costa Rica. You are an extension of our team and we want to take each of you along with us on our trip. Additionally, we will be posting information about our trip and updating prayer requests through this blog. We will try to update this blog as frequently as possible.
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