For the second year in a row, our family had the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica to help our missionary friends at Missions Impossible International give Christmas gifts to children in poverty. In addition to the Jennings family, we were joined by 7 others from TrueNorth Church.
From left to right: Stephen Tillman, Carolyn (Cat) Tillman, Beth Jennings, Kameron Waters, Kathryn McCormick, Gene Jennings, Bailey Jennings, Eydie Tillman, Cliff Jennings, Chloe Sylvester, and Karin Soderstrom.
We had a great team! Everyone worked hard and made Christmas happen for hundreds of kids. We worked with Joy Sheraden, a native of Augusta, along with Phil and Jill Jones, founders and directors of Missions Impossible. They minister in the Los Triangulos precario in San Jose, Costa Rica. The precario is a 3 acre tract of land with about 2000 people (mostly Nicaraguan refugees) living there.
I'm not sure what the final tally was but I think we gave over 1000 gifts away! We also cooked hotdogs for everyone in the precario, hosted a Christmas party for Joy’s Ladies Bible Study group, and went into the city one night to serve coffee and cookies to prostitutes and the homeless.
Here’s a pic of Joy with one of her many friends and more shots below:
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