Shopping in Spanish; Worshipping in Spanish; A Tour of Old San Jose; Will You Pray for Pavas?...  Read More

Up we go into the wild blue yonder... Pura Vida on the Patio at Pops....  Read More

18 hours to wheels-up... "Sigue a Jesús a Costa Rica"... "Vamanos"... God's Got the Final Prep......  Read More

YouTube has produced a skit that features the 11 disciples after Jesus' death. They confess to having stolen Jesus' body from His tomb and were discussing how they would say He had been raised from th...  Read More

Thomas is not mentioned very much in the Gospels. In fact, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, he is only in the lists of the disciples. However, in the Gospel of John, he is in two important stories. When Je...  Read More

Philip, the apostle, is not mentioned in the first three gospels other than in the lists of the apostles. However, he is a frequent character in the book of John.  Philip had been among the followers ...  Read More

Matthew was a tax collector in the service of Herod Antipas, tetrarch  of Galilee. As such, he was hated by patriotic Jews and the general populace. Tax collectors most often increased the amount of m...  Read More

Thaddeus was born to a Jewish family in Panias Galilee near where Jesus grew up. He was a farmer by trade, his mother was a cousin of Jesus’ mother, Mary, and his father was a brother of Joseph and Ja...  Read More

A little known fact is that John’s cousin was Jesus. His mother was the sister of Mary, Jesus’ mother. When Jesus called John to be a disciple, he was fishing with his brother, James, and his father, ...  Read More

James and John, fishermen and two of Jesus’ disciples, were brothers and possibly cousins of Jesus. Their mother, Salome, was the sister of Mary, Jesus’ mother. Jesus called James and his brother, Joh...  Read More

As our team prepares to go in Jesus’ name, we would deeply appreciate your prayers during this season of preparation. Lucie, Sam, Alex, Sammie, Darren, Denise, Ryan V, Boaz, Dan, Allison, Ryan W, and ...  Read More

We’re excited to travel to Costa Rica this July 18–25 to serve alongside our global missionaries, Lonney and Paula Moore, with Hope Partner International. Hope Centers are currently making a meaningfu...  Read More