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Here are just a few of the areas of the Abraham project. The bleechers to the soccer field, playground under roof due to rainy season, living quarters for many children in what we would call foster care.

Red rooves and bars on every window and door-typical.

Jared lost his first pair of glasses and had to go for his second pair

Hola de Costa Rica! Hello to my friends and family back home, and a special hello to the 4th grade class! I have been having so much fun here! There are so many fun things to do here; swimming next to a waterfall, ziplining, relaxing in hot springs, and getting to work alongside of Costa Ricans at the Abraham Project. Its amazing to see how God is working here. Seeing how God can unify people from different nationalities, and move people to accomplish things, even when it seems the odds are against them was truly a blessing to me as I cleared out a sewage ditch today. I hope everything is going ok back home, please continue to keep us in your prayers as we do have 3 more filled days ahead of us, pray that we may do God’s work here for the people and that we may grow in our spiritual maturity.
~Austin Weaver

Hola from Costa Rica!
Steph and Abby here, Costa Rica has been great so far. We have had many great opportunities and have experienced many awesome things here in the jungle of Costa Rica. Today we started our work at the Abraham Project. This is a daycare and foster home for the local Costa Rican children. We were able to help out with many projects around the Project, including digging and landscaping. It was a great opportunity to use our abilities to serve a great mission. We also got the chance to play soccer with a few of the workers after lunch, which was so fun, but also humiliating due to the locals’ soccer talents. But they were gracious and took it easy on us. Tomorrow we are hoping to spend time with the children in the daycare and have the chance to connect with them, as well as Thursday too.

Shout out to 4th and 7th grade; hope you guys are having fun back home. Keep working hard summer is almost here! 🙂 I hope you have enjoyed reading our blogs daily.
Hasta Luego!
Steph and Abby

Just after a wonderful evening meal we had a devotional time followed by some taking some time to refresh in the pool. Did I say refresh? Well at about 10PM a student whom has been injured many times before, figured I was plenty refreshed and needed a little more stress. So said individual jumped into the pool and turned their ankle (which included a nice cut/gash), just so I would have something to do. Little do most people realize that I am way ahead of these perplexing situations and so I simply asked our guide Dustin to have a look. He has studied pre-med and has a degree in Kinesiology, so this situation was well confronted. And to reassure parents…a phone call went immediately to Eric Lewis, whom then contacted the parent and then I was able to speak directly to the parent by the guides international phone, which he carries 24/7. The guide knew we had arranged travel insurance and told me that the hotel had insurance as well so we were totally covered no matter what had to be done. God is in control, and I just wanted you all to understand just how smoothly things take place when you have done all your homework and are confident in your plans.

Brett Markey

Time has gone by so fast. I am having so much fun in Costa Rica with my classmates. We started today with a great breakfast. We went zip lining after we were done eating breakfast. I was pretty scared at the beginning because I had never done zip lining before. But since my classmates and teachers encouraged me to do it, it was better for me to get started. We went on 13 lines and on a swing that is called the “Tarzan Swing”. The first time it was so scary for me to be on the tarzan swing, but it was pretty sweet. After that, we went to a place where we could see the process of ox carts. Because we had a down pour of rain all of a sudden, it was kind of hard to hear what the tour guide was saying. It was still cool to see the process of their work. After that, we went to the shop to buy suveniors. All the things that are in Costa Rica are so unique and hand made as well. After we were done eating dinner, we had a devotion time. A leader named Paolla shared her testimony with the girls. It was really special and I was so happy to hear her story. It really touched my heart. So far, I have realized that God has provided so many things for us. All the experiences that I have made with my classmates and teachers will be a treasure in my life. I can’t wait to spend more time here in Costa Rica for the next few days. GOD IS GOOD! ALL THE TIME!

SungJu “Sunny” Park

The past few days have been pretty sweet. All of our air traveling went off without a hitch and we arived in one piece. After getting a good nights rest from the previous days activities we woke up bright and early to go zip lining. When we arived to Ecoglide (ziplinging place) we were acqeaninted with our guides who quickly strapped us into our harnesses. After a very brief instructional speech we did a short practice line. When we were all finished there we pilled into a truck and headed up the mountain. Ziplining was a blast. Flying on the lines you could see miles around. By far the biggest adrenaline rush was the tarzan swing. After being strapped into the lines and jammed up aggainst the gate, the gate was released, you were told to sit and off you went. Describing this experience into words will not do it any justice. Later in the day we headed to a shop and a ox cart facotory. We were being given a tour of how the facotry origonated and functioned but due to the heavy rain we could barly hear our guide. After roaming the shop for a while we made our way to dinner and eventually to a small shop were we could get light snacks. These past few days have been awesome and I am sure there is more to come. Tomarrow we are heading out to our first work day which I am looking forward to. We are all doing well for the most part and having fun.

Adam Macbeth