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First Call for January 2013 Evangelism Trip to Costa Rica.

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Would you like to travel to Costa Rica with us in January for a week of adventure, evangelism, outreach projects, fellowship and worship?

This is Joshua One Ministries’ first call for CR4C January 2013, Costa Rica For Christ’s upcoming week-long adventure

If you have a possible interest in joining our team, please read the following information and respond to let us know you are interested.

If there is no way you can join us, please become one of our senders! Really! Please!

Last year we came up way short of the funds we needed. At the last minute, a couple of wonderful churches and a couple of very generous individuals wrote some large checks to make it possible for us to proceed. Even then, we had to make some cuts in the ways we were able to bless the churches we were visiting.

OK, I admit it. I need to do a much better job of fundraising this year! So here I am, starting right now, asking for your help. Will you help get us off to a good start by writing a generous check right now? We need your support in a big way to do everything I know God wants us to do while we are in Costa Rica in January.

DETAILS OF OUR UPCOMING TRIP

This will be the sixth consecutive year we have made this journey. We have taken groups ranging in size from 13 to 39 people in previous years.

• Dates: January 21-28, 2013. That’s Monday to Monday, exactly four months from now.

• Travel: We will fly from OKC through Dallas or Houston to San José, CR. If you are closer to another large city, we may be able to arrange for you to fly from there and connect with us in Dallas or Houston.

• Lodging: We will stay in an economical hotel in or near San José. Probably the Hotel Maragato (www.hotelmaragato.com), where we have stayed previously.

• Cost: We are still developing the budget. Cost was $1750 per person the last two years and will be close to that this year, depending on airfare and hotel costs.

• Passport: You must have a passport, so if you don’t have one, please get the paperwork started now.

WHAT WILL WE BE DOING?

We are visiting with Rodrigo Rojas, our senior evangelist in Costa Rica, about how we can make the most impact for the Kingdom this year. In previous years:

• We have done construction projects, such as a Classroom/Dormitory building for our Bible Institute in San José, a restroom facility for a church in San Miguel, and a Sunday School classroom addition for a church in the village of Santa Elena.

• We have offered free health clinics in impoverished rural villages, with Costa Rican doctors and U.S. nurses providing health care and our team members playing various supporting roles.

• Each year we conduct a Leadership Seminar for CR pastors and pastors’ wives.

The highlight of our visit is the three-day Preaching and Teaching Convention we most for believers from all over Costa Rica. This is one of the most ambitious and expensive parts of our adventure. We rent a meeting place large enough for several hundred people and we rent buses to go out to all the villages to bring our Christian brothers and sisters to the convention.

This is something they look forward to all year. We were heartbroken last year to have to cancel some of the buses because of lack of funds, which meant some believers who wanted to attend were unable to.

WHAT CAN YOU DO ON OUR TEAM?

If you love the Lord and you love others, we can definitely use you on our team. Even if you have no specials talents or are in less than perfect health, if you have love in your heart, we’d love to have you.

If you do have a special skill — translation, construction, medical, children, music, preaching, teaching — all the better. Each year we look forward to seeing who God calls to join our team and then we find ways to use each person in a unique way.

But the most important thing we bring to Costa Rica each year is our love. The No. 1 purpose of this trip each year never changes:

Loving fellowship with our Christian brothers and sisters in CR. We want our fellow Christians in CR to know that we love them and are praying for them. They really look forward to our visit each year, and we really look forward to going! We go so that we and our CR brethren “may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith” (Rom 1:12).

You can do that, can’t you?

HOW DO YOU JOIN OUR TEAM?

First, please send me an email: to terryhull@joshuaone.org , letting me know that you want to go or that you are interested. Or use our online Contact form.

Second, send a $100 nonrefundable deposit to hold your place. Soon we will need to pay deposits to hold our airline reservations. So we need to hear from you and we need your deposits. Additional payments will be due in late Oct, early Dec and early January.

Can can mail your deposit — or if you are sender, mail your donations — to:

Joshua One Ministries  *  P.O. Box 8464  *  Edmond, OK 73083

Or, you can make a donation online right now on our Contact page.

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Construction Projects Completed at Two Villages

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January 2012 Evangelism Trip to Costa Rica
Part 4: Construction Projects


Larry Suazo of Lawton on our construction site.
Larry Suazo of Carriage Hills Christian Church, Lawton, OK, surveys progress on our project at Santa Elena.

We accomplished two construction projects this year:

• At the San Miguel church we completed a restroom facility begun in 2011. We brought the project to within 95% completion and left behind the necessary materials for CR believers to finish the work.

• We bought the materials and began the work on a classroom addition at the Santa Elena church.

Marcy Hynd of Edmond Christian Church paints a classroom.
Marcy Hynd of Edmond Christian Church paints a classroom on our 2010 trip.
A children's Sunday School class at San Miguel
Children have Sunday School during our 2012 convention in the classroom our team built during our 2010 trip.
Steve Driskill and Jovanny Baez cut a metal beam
Steve Driskill, minister of Canton (OK) Christian Church, and Jovanny Baez, a pastor in San José, cut a beam for the Santa Elena classroom addition.

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JANUARY 2012 EVANGELISM TRIP TO COSTA RICA

Go to Part 1: Mission Accomplished!
Go to Part 4: Health Clinics in Rural Villages

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Health Clinics in Rural Villages

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January 2012 Evangelism Trip to Costa Rica
Part 3: Health Clinics

We gave free health care to 271 people, mostly women and children, in three impoverished rural villages: Santa Elena, Frailes and San Juan Sur. We support and encourage Christian churches in each of those villages, so our clinics also provided an evangelistic boost for those churches.


We provided free treatment to hundreds of Costa Ricans at our free health clinics.
We provided treatment to hundreds of people at our free health clinics.

A mother brings her baby to our free health clinic.
A mother brings her baby to the clinic.

Our health clinics draw many women and children. Lots of kids show up — some because they are sick and some because they want to see the visiting gringos. We bring games, crafts and Bible coloring pages.

Girl at health clinic

Girl at health clinic

Big brother and two siblings at health clinic

Below, Norma Hull explains the tract, “Sobre Todo, Jesús Te Ama!” which means, “Above All, Jesus Loves You!” Who can measure the eternal impact we have on these children?

Norma Hull shares the gospel with children.

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JANUARY 2012 EVANGELISM TRIP TO COSTA RICA
Go to Part 1: Mission Accomplished!
Go to Part 4: Construction Projects Completed at Two Churches

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Word Preached. People Saved. Pastors Trained. Churches Strengthened.

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January 2012 Evangelism Trip to Costa Rica
Part 2: Annual San José Preaching-Teaching Convention

Terry Hull preaching at the convention
Several hundred people from all over Costa Rica attended our Preaching-Teaching Convention.

Several hundred believers from throughout Costa Rica attended our three-day Preaching-Teaching Convention in San José. It was the fifth year we have hosted this annual convention in CR’s capital city.

The Convention theme was “Ven, Señor Jesús!” which means “Come Lord Jesus!” (Rev. 22:20). Terry Hull brought three messages on end-times prophecy: on the Rapture, the Second Coming, and the Millennial Kingdom. Terry is pictured above, with Josué Rojas translating.
Three people answered the invitation to accept Jesus as Savior! Praise the Lord.

LEADERSHIP SEMINAR FOR PASTORS AND PASTORS’ WIVES

Pastors seminar at 2012 convention.
Terry Hull and Josué Rojas lead a seminar for about 30 Costa Rican pastors.

On Saturday of the convention, we offered two workshops: One for about 30 pastors, led by Terry Hull and Josué Rojas (pictured above), and the other for about 25 pastor’s wives, led by Leticia Baez and Norma Hull (pictured below).

Seminar for pastors' wives.
Leadership seminar for pastors' wives at the 2012 convention.
Gift bags for pastor families.
Norma Hull presents a gift bag to a pastor couple.

After the workshops, we treated the pastors and wives to lunch. We served a catered lunch for about 80 church leaders. We also presented each pastor couple with a gift bag. Norma Hull put the gift bags together, and that’s Norma aabove presenting a bag to one pastor couple.

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JANUARY 2012 EVANGELISM TRIP TO COSTA RICA

go to Part 1: Mission Accomplished!
go to Part 3: Health Clinics in Rural Villages

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Mission Accomplished!

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January 2012 Evangelism Trip to Costa Rica
Part 1: Introduction

Our January evangelism trip to San José, Costa Rica, was a great success! Thanks and God bless each of you who helped make this outreach possible through your financial gifts and your prayers.

We achieved every single one of our goals. Praise the Lord! Here is a brief report on our eight-day adventure, January 16-23, 2012:


A boy in San Juan Sur shows off his coloring page of Jesus' ascension.
Most of the almost 300 people seeking treatment at our health clinics were women and children. We reached out to the children through games, gospel tracts, and Bible coloring pages.

• Each of our 15 team members was protected from serious injury or illness. From 2008-2012 we have taken a total of 68 believers to CR, and we have brought each one home safely and without serious mishap. Praise the Lord our Protector!

• Several hundred people attended our Preaching-Teaching Convention.

Terry Hull preaching at the convention
Several hundred people from churches throughout Costa Rica attended our three-day Preaching-Teaching Convention in San José. Three people answered the invitation to accept Jesus as their Savior.

• We gave free health care to 271 people in impoverished rural villages.

• We accomplished two construction projects at two churches.


A San José girl receives a hot dog at our "block party" at the San Miguel church.
We hosted a “block party” at the San Miguel church on Thursday evening. An estimated 300 people in the neighborhood of the church showed up for free hot dogs and chips. It was the first time many of them had ever stepped foot inside the church.

Photos and more details on the next pages give you a glimpse of our evangelism experience. Thanks for giving, thanks for praying, and thanks for caring. Please continue to keep our friends, pastors, and churches in Costa Rica in your daily prayers.

If you are interested in joining us for our January 2013 outreach to Costa Rica, let us know so we can keep you informed, and watch this website for more information.

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go to Part 2: Word Preached. People Saved. Pastors Trained. Churches Strengthened.