Tim Høiland

After writing yesterday’s post, our team reconvened on the other side of town in Heredia in the midst of a downpour. Some were more soaked than others. We headed back towards Casa Shalom for two meetings in Varablanca, where we had church the other morning. We met first with the school board and association about the educational situation in this area, and out of this we’re working on collaborating when we meet (hopefully) with a representative from the ministry of education on Thursday. You could pray for that.

The next meeting, a briefer one, was with two members of the local community development association, with whom we chatted about housing and other areas of concern in the area. We also hope that connections can be made between these community leaders and the powers-that-be in order to help the community rebuild.

Yesterday was a great day, but an exhausting one. After these meetings we debriefed until late into the evening. Today was a big blessing, then, because we mostly have had the day off. This morning the clouds cleared out enough for us to head up to visit the Poas volcano. We were able to look down into the crater, which was steaming and hissing. Then, after a walk through the jungle over to the older crater, we had our daily devotions overlooking the beautiful crater lake. After this the skies opened up and we decided to take it easy, reading books, drinking coffee, chatting, and catching up on work in Casa Shalom.

Please continue to pray for our transportation situation. Each day has brought adventures of its own; today we only had to jumpstart a car once. But God provides and we’ve always had enough seats (sort of) to get where we need to go. We’d also appreciate prayer for the meetings and surveys yet to be done, and for continued team unity and safety. Thanks so much.