We actually moved to Costa Rica on May 25th. We had a time getting here as obstacles kept getting in our way, like cars breaking down, and being flagged for a random security check at the airport in Orlando. It was an adventure just getting to the country! But we made it here, safe and sound! Praise God!
Our first week here was about finding a house to rent, and then moving in and getting needed household supplies.
Our second week was PVM Staff orientation and training. We are working with Pura Vida Missions here, an organization that coordinates short term mission trips for groups from the states.
Our third week we received 68 people from 4 different churches and did ministry and drama training here at the PVM base camp. Our fourth week we sent those teams out around the country to do work projects and children’s ministry.
Our fifth week we received 119 people from 4 different churches and did ministry and drama training here at the PVM base camp. Our sixth week we sent those teams out around the country to do work projects and children’s ministry.
Our seventh week we received 74 people from 6 different churches and did an abbreviated version of training and sent them out to do work projects and children’s ministry.
The eighth week we received 96 people from 6 different churches and we are doing ministry and drama training here at the PVM base camp. The ninth week, (starting this week) we will send those teams out around the country to do work projects and children’s ministry.
The tenth week we will receive another 80 people from several different churches and we will be doing ministry and drama training here at the PVM base camp. The eleventh week we will send those teams out around the country to do work projects and children’s ministry.
Thus by the middle of August our summer facilitating large groups through PVM will end. Then we as a family will hit the books hard to learn to speak and understand Spanish. Our hope and desire is to stay in the country, and live amongst the beautiful people here as we learn to communicate in Spanish. Please pray with us that this will happen, we need to have more monthly financial support coming in through Globe International in order to make this possible. – Thank you for partnering with us in prayer!
Our time here has been awesome so far, we have completely fallen in love with the beautiful people, the mountainous countryside, and yes, even the extremely busy city. The churches we have worked with here have been welcoming with open arms, and very encouraging towards us. We have begun to make friends, and as we are visiting different churches with the different teams we are getting to know the Christian community here. We are starting to learn their hearts desires through offering prayers and fellowship. The Costa Rican Christians are a loving people who are ready to dive into wanting to know Jesus better, they long for the power and presence of God to reside in their land. I believe it already does, and it will as we seek God together. He is faithful to pour out His presence on His children who seek Him. Prayers are for family members for work and salvation. We pray to strengthen marriages, and for children of single parents. 1 out of 4 pregnancies here are to young single mothers. We pray for young and older men alike to rise up to the occasion, and become strong disciples of Christ. Please join us in our prayers for Costa Rica. Bless You!
Missions with a Heart for Costa Rica
Our move to Costa Rica
I have just read an incredibly inspiring book called “Daring to Live on the Edge” by Loren Cunningham (the founder of YWAM). It has challenged me to believe God for what He has told us He will do in Costa Rica. Loren says the key to living by faith is Hearing God’s voice and obeying what He tells you to do, then trusting Him to do what you cannot do yourself. God wants us to have aggressive faith by being obedient to the will of God!
God has spoken to us to move our family to Costa Rica and reach out to a specific group of people - single moms, and underprivileged children. We are in the position of having to believe God for the means to do so as we do not have the provision ourselves. We believe that if we step out in faith to act on what God has told us to do, then He will bring in the necessary provisions. So here we are, aggressively believing what God has spoken to us, and being obedient to His call for our family by stepping out and moving to Costa Rica this Memorial Day weekend.
We are asking you to consider becoming a part of this awesome vision for ministry that the Lord has revealed to us. Your family may not be able to move to a foreign country to do missions work at this time, but you will be able to take part in the blessings of the work that the Lord is doing by praying for us, contributing financially on a monthly basis, or a by giving a onetime gift. You will be part of a valuable team working to spread the gospel throughout the world. By contributing to the Robinson family through Globe International you will be putting 8 workers in the field in Costa Rica to bring the Harvest into the Kingdom of God. Each member of our family has a place to serve in Costa Rica; each of us is needed to fill a place of ministry at Pura Vida Missions (PVM).
We cannot do this alone, we need your help. Will you consider supporting the work of the Lord by giving a monthly financial donation? Will you pray about supporting us on a monthly basis in whatever way the Lord leads you to do so? We thank you in advance for being obedient to the Lord in this matter - whatever He tells you to do. We look forward to including you as a member of our support team. Please feel free to let us know what you have decided. Whether you are able to give at this time, or are just able to pray for us, we value your friendship and prayer support as we walk through this challenging time of stepping out in faith and are being obedient to what the Lord has asked of our family.
Thank you, and much love,
Bill and Chris Robinson,
and Family
To make donations or correspond:
Mail a check to Globe International,
P.O. Box 3040 Pensacola, FL 32516.
Or give with a credit card at www.gme.org
List our names in the designation/memo box.
God has spoken to us to move our family to Costa Rica and reach out to a specific group of people - single moms, and underprivileged children. We are in the position of having to believe God for the means to do so as we do not have the provision ourselves. We believe that if we step out in faith to act on what God has told us to do, then He will bring in the necessary provisions. So here we are, aggressively believing what God has spoken to us, and being obedient to His call for our family by stepping out and moving to Costa Rica this Memorial Day weekend.
We are asking you to consider becoming a part of this awesome vision for ministry that the Lord has revealed to us. Your family may not be able to move to a foreign country to do missions work at this time, but you will be able to take part in the blessings of the work that the Lord is doing by praying for us, contributing financially on a monthly basis, or a by giving a onetime gift. You will be part of a valuable team working to spread the gospel throughout the world. By contributing to the Robinson family through Globe International you will be putting 8 workers in the field in Costa Rica to bring the Harvest into the Kingdom of God. Each member of our family has a place to serve in Costa Rica; each of us is needed to fill a place of ministry at Pura Vida Missions (PVM).
We cannot do this alone, we need your help. Will you consider supporting the work of the Lord by giving a monthly financial donation? Will you pray about supporting us on a monthly basis in whatever way the Lord leads you to do so? We thank you in advance for being obedient to the Lord in this matter - whatever He tells you to do. We look forward to including you as a member of our support team. Please feel free to let us know what you have decided. Whether you are able to give at this time, or are just able to pray for us, we value your friendship and prayer support as we walk through this challenging time of stepping out in faith and are being obedient to what the Lord has asked of our family.
Thank you, and much love,
Bill and Chris Robinson,
and Family
To make donations or correspond:
Mail a check to Globe International,
P.O. Box 3040 Pensacola, FL 32516.
Or give with a credit card at www.gme.org
List our names in the designation/memo box.
Preparation mode!
Preparations being made for the big move -
We have been busy preparing, cleaning, going through, and getting rid of lots and lots of "stuff" in working towards our big family move to Costa Rica this spring. You never think that moving is going to be so hard, or take so long, but when you have a family of 8, things really accumulate. I don't know where half of all of this stuff came from, or when it decided to take up residence in my house, but it is time now for it all to go. I have found borrowed books that I need to return to their rightful owners, and books that I have not looked at for a long while and forgotten that we had, among other long forgotten about items. Let me tell you, it is very tedious work for me, but very rewarding. I have been trying to lighten my load now for a long time, and I just never spent the hours needed to get it done. Now I have to do it, as we are only taking 2 trunks per family member with us to Costa Rica.
We are very excited about our up and coming move, the kids finally joined in the anticipation when they heard that candy and pizza is widely available (practically on every corner) of the city. We will be living near the capital city of San Jose, in a city called Heredia. It is about 30-40 minutes by car, but 1 hour by bus. The buses in Costa Rica go everywhere, through all of the cities, towns, and on all of the mountain roads. It is really amazing! The bus system is widely used, so there are people walking everywhere all of the time to get to a bus stop.
There are stray dogs everywhere as well. It is really amazing. Most of them are friendly, not that I petted any, but they seemed to be so. The dogs in Costa Rica actually look both ways before they cross the street! It is true, we saw it happen! I am trying to find a good home for my 2 dogs here in the states, because they would probably get hit by a car if they got out of the small yard that we will have in Costa Rica. We are also going to be living in much more of a city environment, and we will not be home very much as we will be very busy working at the ministry base.
We will be working with Pura Vida Missions this summer. We cannot wait to get there, (May 27th is moving day!). Leadership training starts June 1st. PVM organizes meaningful ministry opportunities and connects short term missions groups with local churches all over Costa Rica. Their trips combines training, ministry, and purpose. Any kind of group can book a trip with PVM, but the summer will be full of hundreds of youth age teens from all over the US. It will be very exciting to work with teens on missions trips! It is so awesome to see the light come on in their eyes, and feel the enthusiasm when they experience the Lord work through their own lives to reach others for Christ!
Thankfully we will be able to dive right in this summer with out speaking fluent Spanish, but come September we will be hitting the books hard to learn the language well. It is absolutely necessary for us to be able to communicate with the people to whom we are ministering to. It is going to be a high priority this fall for us to totally immerse ourselves in speaking Spanish. We have a decent understanding of the language from taking Spanish 1 and 2 at the local college last summer, but we realized how much we were lacking in vocabulary mastery during our trip! We do know enough to get around, but not enough to really share Christ with someone in Spanish. That is our goal, by next year!!! We have our work cut out for us!
Please pray for us, and the ministry in Costa Rica!
See Globe Internationals web site at http://www.gme.org/missionaries/view_missionary.php?mid=144 to find out more information about missions, or to make a donation towards lives being changed in Costa Rica.
See Pura Vida Missions web site at www.PVMonline.org for more information about the mission that we will be working with, or if you are interested in coming with a team to Costa Rica this summer.
We have been busy preparing, cleaning, going through, and getting rid of lots and lots of "stuff" in working towards our big family move to Costa Rica this spring. You never think that moving is going to be so hard, or take so long, but when you have a family of 8, things really accumulate. I don't know where half of all of this stuff came from, or when it decided to take up residence in my house, but it is time now for it all to go. I have found borrowed books that I need to return to their rightful owners, and books that I have not looked at for a long while and forgotten that we had, among other long forgotten about items. Let me tell you, it is very tedious work for me, but very rewarding. I have been trying to lighten my load now for a long time, and I just never spent the hours needed to get it done. Now I have to do it, as we are only taking 2 trunks per family member with us to Costa Rica.
We are very excited about our up and coming move, the kids finally joined in the anticipation when they heard that candy and pizza is widely available (practically on every corner) of the city. We will be living near the capital city of San Jose, in a city called Heredia. It is about 30-40 minutes by car, but 1 hour by bus. The buses in Costa Rica go everywhere, through all of the cities, towns, and on all of the mountain roads. It is really amazing! The bus system is widely used, so there are people walking everywhere all of the time to get to a bus stop.
There are stray dogs everywhere as well. It is really amazing. Most of them are friendly, not that I petted any, but they seemed to be so. The dogs in Costa Rica actually look both ways before they cross the street! It is true, we saw it happen! I am trying to find a good home for my 2 dogs here in the states, because they would probably get hit by a car if they got out of the small yard that we will have in Costa Rica. We are also going to be living in much more of a city environment, and we will not be home very much as we will be very busy working at the ministry base.
We will be working with Pura Vida Missions this summer. We cannot wait to get there, (May 27th is moving day!). Leadership training starts June 1st. PVM organizes meaningful ministry opportunities and connects short term missions groups with local churches all over Costa Rica. Their trips combines training, ministry, and purpose. Any kind of group can book a trip with PVM, but the summer will be full of hundreds of youth age teens from all over the US. It will be very exciting to work with teens on missions trips! It is so awesome to see the light come on in their eyes, and feel the enthusiasm when they experience the Lord work through their own lives to reach others for Christ!
Thankfully we will be able to dive right in this summer with out speaking fluent Spanish, but come September we will be hitting the books hard to learn the language well. It is absolutely necessary for us to be able to communicate with the people to whom we are ministering to. It is going to be a high priority this fall for us to totally immerse ourselves in speaking Spanish. We have a decent understanding of the language from taking Spanish 1 and 2 at the local college last summer, but we realized how much we were lacking in vocabulary mastery during our trip! We do know enough to get around, but not enough to really share Christ with someone in Spanish. That is our goal, by next year!!! We have our work cut out for us!
Please pray for us, and the ministry in Costa Rica!
See Globe Internationals web site at http://www.gme.org/missionaries/view_missionary.php?mid=144 to find out more information about missions, or to make a donation towards lives being changed in Costa Rica.
See Pura Vida Missions web site at www.PVMonline.org for more information about the mission that we will be working with, or if you are interested in coming with a team to Costa Rica this summer.
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