Yesterday we had a cookout with several UWM people in the area, and one of our national colleagues who has lots of connections invited a well-known Costa Rican musician and composer. He shared with us a little more about the history of the annexation, and how Guanacaste had gone between belonging to Costa Rica, belonging to Nicaragua, and independence. When it decided to join Costa Rica, it had been independent, which is good, because we've already had (and continue to have) many border scuffles with Nicaragua. He also shared for us a song he composed, "Soy Tico" ("I'm Costa Rican"). That was a fun cultural experience, though I felt a little embarrassed of myself for not learning more about the history of the day beforehand. I feel like history generally goes in one ear and out the other for me though...
Anyway, things were relatively quiet at the Grupos Pequeños stand at church this past weekend. Only three new facilitators signed up, but I'm excited about them! I expect the stand to be busy to swamped the next 4 weekends as we sell the booklets for our series starting August 20-21, encourage everyone who is not in a small group to join one, and encourage more people to become facilitators of small groups. Thank you for praying with me for God to strengthen and grow my church through small groups!
May God continue to strengthen and grow your relationship with Him as well!
Carrie
1 comment:
Good morning, how are you?
My 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
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