Start-Up House Church Receives Funding for Church Supplies and Local Ministries
From the very first time that Jon came in contact with Carla Araya Campbell, there was an instant God-connection.
Jon first met Carla on his original mission trip to Costa Rica as a second year Charis Bible College student. Carla, working with Pastor Douglas Rossman, was one of the English/Spanish interpreters. In fact, Carla was the interpreter at the home church service in the BriBri indigenous tribal village of Shiroles which became the genesis of the first church that Your Kingdom Purpose Ministries played a part in building.
Carla has been Jon’s favorite interpreter to work with while he is speaking to groups in Central America, or conversing with people in small groups.
Carla has always had great leadership qualities and a heart for God’s people. This heart for people and desire to teach and lead led Carla to join with two or three other families to form a new church meeting in her home. Her small nucleus of people also reaches out to homeless people in Limon with food, while taking the time to share the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit for healing and other needs.
In February (2023), the Charis Bible College mission team that Jon was privileged to play a part in hosting participated in the first ever service held by the small body of believers. As a follow-up to that initial service, a request came to Your Kingdom Purpose Ministries to provide all the furnishing and tools to aid the start-up church family. YKPM put together funding to provide chairs, tables, a sound system and other needs for the young church.
Praise the Lord for the resources to help this church plant to get started on the right path for their physical meeting needs.
Facts about Costa Rica
Population: Five million
One of the few sovereign nations in the world without a standing army
La Costa Rica means “rich coast” in Spanish
Leans more egalitarian than its Central American neighbors
Ranked 15th country out of 153 in the 2020 United Nations World Happiness Report
Has one of the highest literacy rates in Latin America at 97%
While considered an upper middle-income country, it still maintains a lot of inequality within its overall population
35% of children live in poverty
Only 20% of national services reach poor children
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