Category: Costa Rica
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Moving to Colorado for the Summer & Urushiol
It’s hard to believe that 9 months ago we first moved to Costa Rica. It’s been an incredible journey, filled with more blessings and trials than we ever expected. The friendships we deepened and the new ones we made are without question foundational life relationships. It’s amazing how adversity and change creates depth and bonds…
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Passover in Costa Rica
It’s incredible how easily documenting our journey gets pushed to the bottom of the list – I apologize for the delay and GREATLY appreciate the healthy nudge and encouragement from a few of you to get back on top of it. We’re thankful for everyone’s continual prayer support as well as for praying for Seeds…
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We’re Moving
We’re moving… but not back to the US. This week we had to move to from our cabina as our landlord decided to move back into her cabina here in Esterillos forcing us to find another place to live. We had been looking for a new place and praying about it for a few weeks,…
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Breaking New Grounds with Aquaponics – Part III
To read part II click here. Having community buy-in and most of our major raw resources gathered for the aquaponics system we were finally in a place to begin building. Well, there is nothing like doing construction by yourself in Costa Rica to bring home the slowness of this country. After weeks of late nights…
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Breaking New Grounds with Aquaponics – Part II
To read part I of how we are breaking new grounds in Aquaponics click here. Since then we also connected with an organization called Seeds of Hope which by Father’s incredible timing just moved it’s headquarters to little ol Esterillos, below is only the tip of the iceberg, you will hear much more about them…
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Breaking New Grounds with Aquaponics – Part I
Despite Costa Rica being a place of lush rain forest and bright green jungles there is a dramatic gap in healthy and sustainable food. Most of the food available throughout the country, and especially Esterillos where we are, is equivalent to what you would find in a remote gas station/mechanic shop somewhere in the middle…
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The First Few Weeks in Costa Rica
Without hesitation I can say that up to this point our journey has been a two parallel path of seeing Father provide through unique and miraculous ways we never imagined; and being more challenged in all areas of our life than we ever expected. Due to not so hot travel arrangements it took us two…
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Moving to Costa Rica For a Bit
This news will probably surprise you as much as it surprised us. For more than a year We have been praying about what we should do next, and up until 2 weeks ago we thought we were supposed to move into a house in Denver where we could serve our neighbors in Denver more effectively.…
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PuraVida Church
The Leon family and Pura Vida church have a deep tie in our story. Esterillos is not only the place we became engaged, but also the first place Megan ever visited outside the country, and both Kenn and Megans first mission trip was to Estrillos Costa Rica. Not only has the villiage and community captured…
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Pura Vida Church’s Core Values with Dennis Leon
We got the opportunity to sit down with Dennis Leon the Pastor of Pura Vida Church in Esterillos, Costa Rica. In the video Dennis speaks about the founding core values they hold themselves to; and takes a look at what it looks to live in community and do relational based ministry.