Chairs

As you all know, we provide funds for church development. What that means is that our partners in ministry who want to come down also raise money to contribute to the building or expansion of churches that we have vetted. And just this week, one of those churches (Iglesia Biblica Fuentes de Amor in Jesus Maria […]

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2022 Raven Scholarship Testimonies

We recently received testimonies from several of the 2022 Raven Scholarship recipients. Here are a few of our favorites. I am very grateful to ESEPA, who opened the doors for me this year to study the Master of Theology, supporting me with a 100% scholarship. I am General Pastor of a congregation in Coronado, and […]

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Raven Scholarship Awarded

Last year, we set a goal to raise $20,000 to fund the Raven Scholarship for ESEPA Seminary, in San Jose, Costa Rica. And our donors responded with their typical generosity. We are so grateful to be able to offer this scholarship in 2022 and look forward to doing even more in the coming year. Watch […]

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A New Direction for The Brook Ministries

Our passion is and always has been to train pastors. And beginning in 2022, we are taking that passion in a new direction. We will continue to do the things we have always done, but now we want to add one more thing.The doctoral dissertation research we conducted before the pandemic demonstrated the incredible need […]

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Hot weather doesn’t stop work, or play

Even though the temperature climbed and the breeze faltered, our multi-national team got the job done. With our visitors from the US here and ready to work, along with one local volunteer and our Tico team from Grecia, work was completed on the concrete stairs and the new fire pit. Exhausted, the team still had […]

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Guest Speaking in Jaco

One of the many things we do is speak at churches throughout Costa Rica. Most often it is a Spanish-speaking churches. But occasionally, we have the opportunity to minister in bilingual or English speaking churches. Over the last two weeks, we had the chance to fill the pulpit for Daniel Barrett, who was on sabbatical. […]

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Church Counselor Receives Award

On Sunday, March 14, Rosa Brenes Rojas was awarded the Dr. Beverly R. Lucas Volunteer Service Award for March 2021. Rosa was nominated by Pastor Paul Garrett del Rio and his wife, Dra. Sofia Quintanilla Ramirez, for her work in counseling at Iglesia Union Church. Help the Hurting Rosa began ministering to people over seventeen […]

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