Jessica Obando

Business as ministry is taking us on adventures from dangerous San Jose neighborhoods to the indigenous reserve in the jungle!! Marlon and Pablo in San Jose TURRIALBA THE VALLEY OF OPPORTUNITY The people of Turrialba have been quite negative about where they live. "There are no opportunities. We have the most corrupt municipal government and justice system. It's impossible to find work here. The only businesses that survive are using drug money." The general consensus on finding good...

2 young men died in a motorcycle collision on their way to work early on a January morning. It was so tragic. One of the young men, Randall, we had known since he was a 10 year old. The ambulance took two hours to reach them and they both agonized and died of traumatic head injuries right on the pavement. Randall When we arrived to Costa Rica in the middle of December, there were two young men in the ICU after a horrible motorcycle accident. Jean Carlos, the son of one of our childhood...

Our first trip to the farm in December gave us a big surprise. Fifty of the abandoned coffee plants that usually have a life span of a few years, were covered in dark coffee berries! I had wondered what the rush was to get to Costa Rica before January. Now, I knew that God hadn’t wanted us to miss this great harvest. It turned into a family project. We want to be as self-sustaining as possible as a family. It was definitely exciting for the teenagers to realize that their work would give...