Language School
The Spanish Language Institute in Costa Rica… the same school our director Jon Fowler attended twelve years ago, and the same school Marcela’s parents attended forty years ago!
We are gearing up to launch on our Panama missionary journey in August. But step one is actually to Costa Rica where we will attend The Spanish Language Institute for an entire year as a family to truly immerse ourselves into the Spanish language and culture.
Marcela and I actually leave tomorrow (Apr 2) to visit the school and the surrounding area to line up all the logistical details for our arrival in August. Please pray for this visit! Will share more prayer requests at the end of this blog update.
As much as our hearts are eager to get to work in Panama, we know this year of investment in language school will pay off dividends for years to come! Our director even required this as part of our process of becoming full-time missionaries with Panama, because he knows the vital importance of this step.
We truly believe that ministry is all about relationships. And to genuinely have authentic, life-on-life, disciplemaking relationships, you have to be able to communicate on a relational heart level.
Marcela and I are very excited to acquire fluent Spanish abilities, knowing the many, many opportunities we will have to be connectors with teams and others that come to Panama to serve alongside Word of Life. But also to truly become ‘Panamanian’ one day and live among the people that have become very dear to our hearts and where we sense the Lord strongly leading us to be.
Benaiah and Maja have a mixture of emotions when it comes to the language training. But kids are wired for communication and play, and they will probably pass us quickly.
This next year will also be a gift of transition into this next season of life as a family. The four of us will spend more time together, and in closer proximity, than ever before! And as we obediently follow the Lord’s calling into the mission field, we know the Lord continues this work in all four of us, preparing us for what lies ahead.
PRAYER REQUESTS…
As mentioned earlier, please pray for us as we go to Costa Rica Apr 2-6 to line up details with the language school and with securing a place to live.
Pray for our time with our friend and director Jon Fowler who will be joining us in Costa Rica for this visit. Its always encouraging to be together and we will also be connecting with a lot of other contacts we will be engaged with over this next year.
We are also in full ‘go mode’ with preparing our house to go to market at the end of this month. More on this in our next update, but please pray for the process of packing up our home and preparing it for sale. We are so grateful in how the Lord continues to provide for us in big and small ways!
Thank you friends!!! Your relational connection with us means so much knowing we are following Jesus together on this Panama missionary journey!
