Pura Vida Mission Trip

Well, Jessie and I arrived home safely after a great trip to Costa Rica with Pura Vida Missions. A large group came from Beach United Methodist Church, about 25 people. Jessie lead a VBS team, and over the course of 5 days, lead 10 Vacation Bible schools with as many as 100 kids. I lead a construction team that laid concrete floors into homes in a poor neighborhood where the people were living on dirt (see the videos below for tours), when all was said and done, we laid 7 floors down, and got pretty sunburned doing so. Overall, we had a great trip:

We saw an active volcano (arenal)
We went to relaxing hot springs
We rode zip lines through the rainforest
We saw a beautiful waterfall (las musas)
We hiked through the rainforest to a river
We went to a rodeo
God was glorified through the work that we did!

I've added pics through the link to the side labeled "My Sweet Pics" and there are 8 videos below, you may have to look through the archives for April of 2007 to see all of them.

Pura Vida Video 8

This is the river that we came to after a one hour downhill hike through the rainforest

Pura Vida Video 7

This is a video tour of one of the houses that got a concrete floor upgrade

Pura Vida Video 6

This is some of the kids at the VBS in the Bajo neighborhood singing praise!

Pura Vida Video 5

Here is another roh-day-oh video, it's shorter and a little more intense than the previous one.

Pura Vida Video 4

This is a video from the rodeo. They don't have the same safety concerns in Costa Rica as here apparently, cause they just let whoever jump in the ring...as evidenced by the video.

Pura Vida Video 3

This is a video of some of the kids from the VBS doing the limbo or jumping rope with Josue and Captain.

Pura Vida Video 2

Here is a video of Las Musas waterfall, I stood under it. Jessie passed since the water was freezing, but she's done it before.

Oh yeah, and sorry the video is sideways.

Pura Vida Video 1

This is a video of Mickey and myself in one of the houses that got a concrete floor upgrade.