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| Bridget and Paul with ICDI in Costa Rica. |
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| Aero Vital delivering supplies for building a bridge. |
There are a couple of reasons we are making this change.
First of all, Helimission lent us to ICDI to help start a helicopter flight
program in Costa Rica.
Aero Vital (the name of the flight service) has been approved by the Costa
Rican government and is operational, so that part of our mission has been
accomplished. Secondly, since coming to
Costa Rica Paul has had some health problems that prevent him from flying. These
two factors caused us to reevaluate our purpose on the mission field.
We prayed, sought advice, and came to the conclusion that the
Lord has equipped us to serve Him long term in Costa Rica with ICDI, so we applied
for membership, and were approved by their board of directors. We are committed
to serving as long term missionaries with ICDI in Costa Rica and will continue to
raise our own financial support.
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| Bridget playing a game with the children in Grano de Oro. |
ICDI missionaries work in an isolated, mountainous region of
Costa Rica
on different community development projects (health, education, economic,
infrastructure, etc.) in order to meet the needs of the Cabécar people and
their non-indigenous neighbors and to share the love of Christ with them.
This type of mission fits with what we desire to do.
Over a year ago Dr. Alekcey Murillo, director of ICDI, asked Paul
to manage
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| Paul fixes many different things. |
We will keep you posted as usual on our blog https://paulnbridget-thejourney.blogspot.com. You can also go to ICDI's website www.icdi-cr.org for information on our mission, our community development projects, and how to begin or continue supporting us financially.
Please pray for us as...
- Bridget prepares lessons for children’s English and homeschooling missionary kids.
- Paul studies the Bible with Julian.
Serving our Savior and Lord,
Paul and Bridget
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Costa Rica? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Costa Rica in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez
Dear Emilio,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments. We will mail a letter to you this week.
Paul and Bridget