Young people get into the act.

The following was reported by Mark Grumbles, one of our veteran missionaries.

The International Youth Group in San José, Costa Rica has stepped up to the plate at the same time that they backed away from their plates. You see, around fifty teenagers didn’t eat anything from one o’clock Friday afternoon until after 7 o’clock Saturday night. Going thirty hours without food was not just a challenge or a test of faith and discipline, but an opportunity to raise support for World Vision feeding projects around the world where $1 can feed a child for one day. Their goal is $10,000!

Various youth participating in the 30-hour Famine also chose to work in one of several ministries on Saturday, Feb. 25^th while they were on their fast. Ten of them chose Operation GO. Pam and I took them to work alongside 8 adults from Iglesia Bautista Shalom in Los Guido to a neighborhood called Urowe. We prayed through this neighborhood that has more than its share of drunks, druggies and single mothers and then visited 400 homes leaving each family a gospel of John. We also gave away cassette tapes of the JESUS film to three people who could not read. I heard one tape playing (LOUDLY) as I walked by the house of a man who was stricken blind from complications with diabetes. The needs that we encountered were many, and we prayed for them. Everyone on the team got a chance to pray personally with someone.

Shalom Baptist already has some Bible studies going on in Urowe. That Saturday, sixteen more people indicated their desire to study the Bible further, and two people even turned their lives over to Christ that day! We finished the work in the early afternoon and the youth returned to their other big group activities.

One mother reported that her son said that the mission work in Los Guido was a life-changing experience…and that’s just what our prayer continues to be for the 400 families that we visited, too.