Panama City Airport, Panama Plane change @ Airport	Hotel View View of building in San Jose	Hotel Room	Hotel View	San Jose Street Sunday Morning Street in Front of Church
Church Entering Church	San Jose	Witnessing	Park Activity	Church on Wednesday
Bats @ Hotel	Bats @ Hotel	Witnessing in Town Square	Fellow Believers	Town Square
San Jose Catholic Church	Avenue Central in San Jose	Coffee Bean Roaster	San Jose	San Jose
San Jose	Up the Mountains	Mountain driving	En Route to Volcano Crater	En route to valcano crater
Volcano Sign	Near Volcano crater	Owl eye butterfly	Morpho Butterfly	Climbing the falls
Rain forest vegetation	Beautiful	Falls	Witnessing to children & parents	Church in Limon
Near Quepos	Deep Sea fishing boat	Fish On!!!!	YAHOO!!!!!	Haul him in
A valient Fight	I was blessed too

I had been blessed with the ability to venture out to Costa Rica on a missions trip.  My church, Liberty Baptist Church, and several of its members lead and served on this trip.  This was my first missions trip and I was glad I went.  No diving, so if you traveled to this web page looking for diving discussion, pick another report.  If you would like to read about service to other believers and the lost please read on.

We drove by church bus to Orlando.  This was the hottest part of the whole trip.  I don't think the A/C had any coolant.  It sure blew out hot air.  Mind you we were traveling south.  Ah!!! But that other dimension.  We loaded up 70 bags of missions supplies (shirts, ties, toiletries, tracts, bibles, puppets, etc.).  As always, I got on board and promptly fell asleep.  I did get some reading in.  Obviously, the flight and change-over was uneventful.  The pilot did have to go around in San Jose because of fog.  Apparently, a frequent event.

Once in San Jose we were met by a missionary, a bus and a prayer.  Somehow, I can't explain it, everyone and every bag made it on the bus and an SUV.  A pretty safe, but none-the-less interesting ride to the hotel.  One more time to unload, or so I thought.

Lodging:

We stayed at the "Apartotel Sesteo" on the southeast side of San Jose.  It was near the major town square (old airfield).  It turned out to be really central to everything we did.  The hotel staff was friendly and helpful.  Two guests that I spoke with were from the US and had retired to San Jose.  One was in the merchant marines and the other did something with computers.

Churches:

While in Costa Rica we assisted three churches.  Some attended services and gave our testimony, others conducted children's bible study and still others lead adult bible study.  Templo Bautista de Tibas

Iglesia Biblica Bautista

Primeria Iglesia Bautista Jerusalen

Food & Land Entertainment:

Ate at the hotel many times and the food was good.  The rice and beans were especially plentiful.

Cuban sandwiches,

La Paz Waterfall Gardens

Sun Burst Coffee

My aunt had received some Costa Rican coffee from Meeks, so one day we tracked down the maker and got a good education on on the coffee bean process

Parque Nacional Volcan Poas

We climbed to the volcano rim

Deepsea Fishing

The charter that Chuch arranged was excellent.  The picked up at the hotel @ five am.  Took an amazing drive to the Pacific coast.  God made some magnificant mountains, waterfalls, beaches, and on and on.  We crossed several bridges that were, literally, the width of the Mercedes mini-van and no wider.  The driver told us that tractor-trailers traveled across these bridges all the time.  Saw many aligators in the rivers, I prayed the bridge would hold.

On the Carribean side the fields were full of pineapple.  Lots of construction going on. 

Shopping

I pray that, if it is God's will, I can work on other missions trip (samaira).  If you would like to here the good news, let me know.

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