LOCATIONS

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Gahanna Campus

3690 N Stygler Road Gahanna, OH 43230

CELEBRATION TIMES

Saturday at 6pm // Sunday at 9 and 11am

Whitehall Campus

4295 E Broad St, Columbus, OH 43213

CELEBRATION TIMES

Sunday at 11am

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WORKING TO THE END!

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Posted: Jan 29, 2018

“This is the team that never ends, they just go on and on, my friend!”  Seriously, after working for an entire week, morning until night, our last day in Anonos was full of extra projects and last minute efforts!! Due to some extra financial gifts to our team from New Lifers, we...

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Blue Butterflies and Waterfalls

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Category: Mission Trips: Costa Rica
Posted: Jan 28, 2018

After a LONG week, 6 am wake up calls & back-to-back projects every day, we took a half-day to spend in the beauty of Costa Rica! We brought 6 of our VBS helpers, the next generation of leaders at LaViña, and headed out of the city & up up up the mountains to a waterfall garden...

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Winding Down

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Category: Mission Trips: Costa Rica
Posted: Jan 26, 2018

It seems like we just arrived and also that we have been here for months! We have formed or deepened relationships with people from 6-86!! Our teammates have been the hardest workers, open & welcoming, caring, giving 110% in every task from making lunch to moving chairs to washing dishes...

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Sweet Spot!

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Category: Mission Trips: Costa Rica
Posted: Jan 25, 2018

After a few days of figuring out the language & the people & all the tasks, today we REALLY found our sweet spot! The worker bees up at the Kinder (old “kindergarten” building now a community center) have finished scraping & repairing the outside wall & repainting the...

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Game On!! y Jugar!!

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Posted: Jan 24, 2018

Tuesday arrived & both teams got straight to work- half grabbed their ladders & drills & tools & headed down the hill and the other half grabbed referee shirts, stacks of nametags, plastic beads & fruit snacks for our first day of VBS!  The community center wall is...

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And the Work Week Begins...

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Category: Mission Trips: Costa Rica
Posted: Jan 23, 2018

After a fairly light entrance into our trip, Monday came with a vengeance as we began our preparations for a 3-day VBS as well as a gargantuan concrete project in a former school now used as a community center. After a yummy breakfast in our hotel and Ed’s devotional from Matthew about our...

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Sunday Funday

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Category: Mission Trips: Costa Rica
Posted: Jan 22, 2018

Mama Cindy again- hugs from Anonos! We woke up to a cloudy morning followed by rain then bright sun all during breakfast The weather has been very weird, but without snow or ice or freezing temps, we’ll take it! After passing out in our beds, exhausted from an 18-hour-travel-day, we woke...

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Welcome to Sunny Costa Rica!

Author: Cindy Schmidt

Category: Mission Trips: Costa Rica
Posted: Jan 21, 2018

With a 4 am arrival time, 9 people, and 37 bags, our team left cold snowy Ohio for sunny Costa Rica! Despite a few grouchy airport workers we had 2 quick easy flights, followed by looooong lines in Immigration & baggage claim! We quickly got to work meeting with David & Angie to be...

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