2010 Costa Rica Trip Information // July 24-31

This trip will continue the work begun last year in San Jose with the construction of the Methodist Children's Home and providing vacation Bible schools to local neighborhoods. For more information, please contact trip leaders Robert and Debra Foster at rlf06261963@yahoo.com.

Informational Meeting // January 24 at 12:15 p.m. in Room A107

Learn more about the ministry of this trip, ask questions, and sign-up with your $100 deposit. This is the perfect chance to get more information if you’ve been thinking of joining the team!

2009 San Jose Trip Update

AUMC's first trip to Costa Rica went very well! We accomplished a lot at the Methodist Children's Home in terms of preparing the first building's foundation, updating the caretaker's home, building a retaining wall, and more! Each afternoon, we had the privilege of serving children from two neighborhoods in San Jose through a VBS ministry. The kids were excited, affectionate, and most of all ready to have fun. We enjoyed doing crafts with them, singing our newly-learned Spanish children's songs, playing games and being ministered to by their warm and open hearts. We look forward to next year's trip and seeing the progress at the Children's Home, as well as reconnecting with our new friends! Please continue to be in prayer as missionaries Will and Ella Faircloth pray for the Home's house parents, as well as for our new friends in the churches of San Jose who are worshipping and serving the Lord with great joy! -Trip Leader, Rebecca Duffield

Costa Rica Project Background

AUMC recently partnered with Will and Ella Faircloth, missionaries from Georgia who have served the Methodist Church of Costa Rica for the past five years, to help with the construction of a Methodist Children's Home in the capital of San Jose. The goal of the Home is to provide a safe, nurturing environment for children who have been declared legally abandoned. The Faircloths hope by early 2010 to receive about 25 children, who will live in three houses with a set of house parents in each house. We are very excited to be involved with the very beginnings of this project, and look forward to working with the Faircloths (along with several other churches around the country) to see it to completion.

More information about AUMC-supported missionaries, Will and Ella Faircloth