Lake Neuron

It now looks like my foreign missions experience this summer will be a trip with LEAMIS to Costa Rica in late June / early July. I’ll pass along more details as they become available, and if you’re on my partnership list from previous trips I’ll probably send out a letter soon asking for support. I’ve not been to Costa Rica before, although my first-ever foreign mission trip was to neighboring Nicaragua. There are certainly areas of need in Costa Rica — or else LEAMIS wouldn’t be going there — but Costa Rica as a whole has a much stronger economy than its neighbor, which is (or was, several years ago) the second-poorest country in Latin America, behind Haiti.

LEAMIS also plans a trip to Nicaragua, but that one’s in October, which doesn’t work as well for me from the newspaper standpoint. Neither does the planned trip to Kenya in late July / early August, to which I had a really strong emotional attraction. After writing my novel (which I’m still tweaking, by the way), I really wanted to go back to Kenya. But it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen this year.

Tags: Costa Rica, LEAMIS