Greetings from Costa Rica. We are all back together in Costa Rica in the midst of our second trimester of language study. We came back very refreshed and re-energized from our awesome time back in Illinois. We were welcomed back here by all our new missionary and local friends and are excited to "finish strong" with language school as we also are making plans for the move to Santiago, Domincan Republic the end of this August!! Our Spanish is improving daily and we continue to grow in our understanding and appreciation of the Latin American culture.
We continue with our discipleship/mentoring relationships and are so blessed by them all. We've included pictures of some of those God has brought across our path. Please pray that these relationships continue to grow in depth and mutual encouragement.
A highlight of our trip back to Bloomington was that one of our very large initial one time gift donors has agreed to continue supporting our ministry with that same amount or more on an annual basis. What a blessing. We have been praying that those who helped us with initial one time gifts would feel led to continue financially partnering with us monthly/annually now as we enter the field.
As always, we thank you all for joining us on this journey. We continue to be amazed at all the love that comes our way through you all. A special thanks to Ray and Raquel Kralis, (Ray is the women's golf coach at ISU in Normal, Il) for the great huge umbrellas and rain jackets. As we are now in the rainy season with tropical downpours daily, we are so grateful for this gift!!
Please read our prayer section to see our specific prayer needs. And check out our upcoming short term team schedule. We encourage you to make a trip down. We have also included some videos of some of GO's ministry sites and interviews with missionaries over 40 (including Dave and I!!) entitled "Master's Revival to Missions".
And...please keep in touch...we love your emails!!
By God's grace and for His glory,
Dave, Cherry, Rachael and Rebekah
