Below are pictures taken from "The Romeria". This is a walk from San Jose to the city of Cartago, however many people walk from their hometown to Cartago. This pilgrimage takes place each year on Aug. 2nd in oder for the people of Costa Rica to worship the "La Negrita" in oder to get favors or miracles in their lives. One of our collegues described the walk as a "river of humanity" on the highway to Cartago. It has been reported an estimate of 2 million people made the walk this year. Once they arrive at the Basilica, they walk on their knees to show their devotion and allegence to the statue, "La Negrita". This year we had a team of about 25, 12 our our missionaries and the others from the Palabra de Vida (Word of Life) Baptist Church of Cartago, that gave out more than 50,000 tracts of the REAL plan of salvation. We stood and and gave out tracts from about 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. and it was not even a drop in a bucket as to the multitude of people that walked that day & night. The "La Negrita" is a little black statue of the mother Mary & baby. The people here refer to Mary as the "Mother of God". It was quite an expierence seeing all the people and realizing just how far from the truth of salvation that is found only in Jesus Christ that these folks have come to believe in.
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1. Pray that Mike & Kathy will be able to share their faith in the Lord with others who need to know! (In Spanish, of course.)
2. Pray for us as we have changed countries from Costa Rica to Argentia. Mike is the new Logistics Coordinator for Argentina, which means he is in an admin. role handling housing, cars, etc. for our missionaries there. Every country has it's own culture and we desperately want to learn all we can about the people here.
3. The Spanish here is quite different and we need your prayers that God would give us the understanding and speech we need to communicate with the Argentine people.
4. Pray for us as well look for a place to live. We have certain budgets and regulations that we need to consider as we look. And, sometimes the places available don't meet the criteria.
5. Pray for Mike & Kathy's children and grandchildren in Tennessee.
2. Pray for us as we have changed countries from Costa Rica to Argentia. Mike is the new Logistics Coordinator for Argentina, which means he is in an admin. role handling housing, cars, etc. for our missionaries there. Every country has it's own culture and we desperately want to learn all we can about the people here.
3. The Spanish here is quite different and we need your prayers that God would give us the understanding and speech we need to communicate with the Argentine people.
4. Pray for us as well look for a place to live. We have certain budgets and regulations that we need to consider as we look. And, sometimes the places available don't meet the criteria.
5. Pray for Mike & Kathy's children and grandchildren in Tennessee.
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