Chatted With Edwin & Jessenia

Chrissy and I had a good chance to catch up on some news from Costa Rica. We talked with our co-workers Edwin & Jessenia Guerra for about an hour. Jessenia shared what's going on with worship in the church at Tres Rios, and she seemed encouraged that the musicians and singers are improving in their technical skills. She's planning to have them all over to her house on Friday to just be together and talk a little about where they find themselves as a ministry. Jessenia also mentioned that she taught last Monday at a ladies' get-together. She said it was a challenge, but I know she did a great job. Edwin told us about a little Mother's Day bash (Mother's Day is August 15th in Costa Rica) at which the men served the ladies. The great thing about this occasion, though, was that a large number of men/husbands helped out that don't usually attend, or have only shown minimal interest thus far. Many of those men then have showed up at church on Sunday. It's only been 5 months since the Institute phase of the project finished, and so that's really good news as the congregation is gaining its own identity.