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STUDENTSInternational
Costa Rica |
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Boys & Girls Club — La Casa Verde
- Site Leaders: Juan Centeno and Cailah Pritchard
- Prayer Requests:
- Safety in the community
- New and fresh ideas in the ministry site
- Follow through and follow up with the youth
- Spiritual growth of the students we work with
- Suggested Donations:
- School supplies: pens, colored pencils, markers, pencil sharpeners, white glue
- Craft/Art supplies: yarn, popsicle sticks, tape, paints/acrylics/watercolors, paint brushes, other general materials for crafts
- Tape: scotch, masking, duct
- Materials for learning English
- Outdoor play equipment/games
- Educational games in Spanish
- Puzzles
- Board games, other games in Spanish ages 4 - 18
- Drill bit sets
- Wood Sand Paper (#80, #100 y #120)
- Wood glue
- Bikes: bearings, handlebar grips, brakes, seats, tires and inner tubes (16, 20, 26), patches and glue
- Site Description:
- The Boys and Girls Club is located in Las Fuentes, a small diverse community of Costa Ricans and Nicaraguan immigrant families. This is a multi-faceted ministry that offers a variety of activities for children, youth and their families. Activities include: aerobics classes, baking, bible lessons, bike club, crafts, sports and recreational activities, table games, tutoring and practicing English, and wood working projects. Each day at the Social Services site holds something different, and outreach participants will work alongside SI staff in all of its activities, ministering and demonstrating God's love through the giving of their time and presence.
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Creative Arts Workshop — Los Guido
- Site Leaders: John Buterbaugh and Daniel Calderon
- Prayer Requests:
- Wisdom to get closer to the people at the workshop
- God would continue working in the hearts of the individuals that attend the site
- Suggested Donations:
- Sheet sandpaper and 5-inch sanding discs for an orbital sander with velcro back (various grits)
- Acrilic paints
- Paint brushes
- Canvas for paints
- Site Description:
- This ministry site works with people of all ages ranging from young boys and men to middle aged women near the community of Los Guido. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the arts through paint, guitar, and woodworking classes. Our goal as a ministry site is viewing Jesus as the great artist and creator of everything we can see and feel around us. Outreach participants will be able to jump in and help with these classes as well as help create and finish a few projects during their time here.
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Education — Tutoring Center
- Site Leaders: Lily Azofeifa and Vanessa Baltodano
- Prayer Requests:
- Safety in the community
- God's provision for the children's families who have lost jobs recently.
- Children to learn the needed material despite the recent interruptions in the school year.
- Spiritual growth of the students we work with
- Suggested Donations:
- Puzzles for kids (48-100 pieces)
- "Sticker Art"/ "Sticker Mosaics" Activity Books
- "Hidden Picture Books" Activity Books
- Cupcake liners
- Fun Size candy bars or chocolate for prizes
- Individual size snacks for kids: granola bars, raisins, cookies
- Peanut butter
- Stickers for kids
- Dry erase markers
- Whiteboard erasers
- Construction paper
- Colored pencils (small boxes)
- Erasers
- Craft Supplies: pipe cleaners, pompoms, paint/watercolors, brushes, craft sticks, glitter, sequins, googly eyes, cotton balls
- Site Description:
- Children come to receive help with their homework and to study for exams at the Tutoring Center, located in the community of Los Guido. In addition to homework help, kids can come for art classes, baking, library time, and a discipleship time for 4th-6th grade boys and girls. Woven into the make up of the Tutoring Center is a strong desire to teach kids that God has dreams and good plans for their lives. Outreach participants will assist in all of the activities of the Center. They will have opportunities to work with school age children to develop their learning abilities and their knowledge of God. They will demonstrate Christ’s love by their patience and attentiveness.
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Sports — Sports and Recreation
- Site Leaders: Daniel Gamboa and Willy Lopez
- Prayer Requests:
- Safe and fun activities for the students
- Continued good relationships with the two public schools we work with
- Unity and energy for our staff
- Spiritual growth of the students we work with
- Suggested Donations:
- Soccer balls #5
- Soccer cleats for children, Under 13
- Dodge balls (3 or so)
- Foursquare balls
- Cones for athletic training (but not the short disc cones)
- Site Description:
- The Sports and Recreation ministry in Costa Rica works with children and youth and rotates among the three communities of Los Guido, La Capri and Las Fuentes. This site incorporates a variety of recreational activities with the goal of teaching and mentoring, and ultimately seeing the lives of young people changed for Christ. The most popular sport is soccer, but we also integrate everything from team handball, basketball, volleyball, baseball, and general fitness to Ping-Pong! Outreach participants will build relationships while playing sports, assisting in coaching exercises, and participating in devotionals with the various groups of children and youth.
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Sports — Women's Health & Fitness
- Site Leader: Grettel Padilla
- Prayer Requests:
- Pray that our ministry can continue to be united as we grow closer to God, and for protection for women that experience psychological and physical abus with or in their families.
- Suggested Donations:
- Journals (for women in our bible study & support groups)
- Nuevas Misericordias Cada Mañana (devotional for women's bible study)
- Women's Tennis Shoes (1 pair size 40 euro and several for sizes 36 & 37)
- Women's Socks
- Exercise bands with handles
- Site Description:
- Participants in the Women's Health and Fitness site will help run a Women's "Boot-Camp" with ladies in the community of Los Guido. Grettel continues to build quality relationships with the women and families in the community through the Health and Fitness classes, lessons on nutrition, and weekly Bible studies. Participants will be asked to help and participate at the level with which they are comfortable. The main goal for participants is to be an encouragement, have fun, and hang out with the individuals that attend the site on a weekly basis.
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Women's Social Work — Microfinance
- Site Leaders: Cindy Arias and Heydi Vargas
- Prayer Requests:
- God would provide work for the families and continue to expand their businesses
- God would continue working in the ladies’ hearts
- New projects for 2023
- Suggested Donations:
- (Items listed by section and in order of need within each section)
- Sewing Class
- Thick nylon straps for bags, thick elastic for pants
- Paint for clothes
- Pins
- Different thickness of cord/rope to make bags
- Seam rippers
- Overlock machine
- Lace and fabric
- "Patrones" magazines/catalogues
- Needles for a sewing machine: #9, 11, 14, 18
- Batting
- Binding
- Cooking Class
- Baking paper
- Garlic presser
- Hand blender
- Whisks, different types
- Blender
- Teflon pans, different sizes
- Pyrex rectangular glass pan (large and medium)
- Kitchenaid artisan mixer
- Kitchen knife set
- Cake mixes
- Jewelry Class
- Assorted jewelry (chains, rings, springs)
- Pliers for jewelry
- Scissors and cutting tools for jewelry
- Elastic to make bracelets (nylon elastic, white and black)
- Types of thread for bracelets: waxed, mercerized, rat tail, hemp, nylon (different colors) embroidery
- Wire for jewelry
- Beads, can be forms of flowers, leaves, round, rectangular, pyramid, square, oval, tear, tube, spiral, etc.
- Crochet Class
- Vodiye Crochet hooks, 89 piece crochet hooks set with case as found on Amazon
- Hot glue gun, glue sticks (thick and thin)
- Yarn
- Rubber gel
- Nippers for nails
- Transparent and white nail tips
- Stamping
- Nail glue
- Cuticle oil
- Liquid monomer/nail liquid
- Acrylic paints (apple barrel) different colors
- Others
- An acoustic guitar
- Blood pressure monitor
- Vitamins for children and women
- Make-up
- Hair clips
- Any kind of beauty supplies
- Jewelry for birthday gifts
- Site Description:
- In the Social Work/Microfinance site we work with women from various communities in Desamparados. Our activities include bible studies, craft projects, and discussing various topics related to our communities and business training. We also offer loans to help women begin or expand their businesses. During the week, different people in our communities lead workshops on sewing, cooking, and exercising. Through all of these activities, women are encouraged to care for their health, families, and communities. We also maintain contact with different girls that were previously part of a teenage mothers group. Our hope for the site is to see how lives and families are transformed as women discover their value and identity in Christ, receive love and support as they reach personal and business goals, and provide a safe community for women who would otherwise be isolated.
- General Donations:
- Laptop Computer (New or gently used)
- Bluetooth speaker (New or gently used)
- Cake and/or brownie mix
- Chocolate baking chips
- School supplies: White Board Markers & Erasers, construction paper, college ruled lined paper, notebooks, etc.