As I left home to make my way to the airport, leaving for Costa Rica to participate in their yearly Bible School, I thought about the many times I had done this before. This year marks 40 years since I first met the original members of the Costa Rica Ecclesia in Santa Barbara, and had the blessing of working with them to help them come to a full knowledge of the truth of the Scriptures. The Word of God took hold quickly in Santa Barbara, a small town in the province of Heredia in Costa Rica, and Santa Barbara soon became the location of the second Costa Rican ecclesia, the first being the ecclesia in San Jose. (The two ecclesias continued for a while, and eventually combined leaving just the Santa Barbara Ecclesia.) continue reading

Once again we had the privilege of attending the school the last weekend of the year. Instead of lodging all overseas visitors in a hotel as in previous years, the brethren decided to create temporary dorms for the young people on the second floor of the San Salvador ecclesial hall. They procured a dozen double bunk beds and installed a couple of extra showers, while sisters from the meeting came early each morning to prepare breakfast. continue reading

It was about 30 years ago that Christadelphians first came to Saint Lucia and started to preach there were good results in those early days with a number of baptisms and the basis of an ecclesia. During the 10 years before we first came here in 2005 many brothers and sisters had come for extended stays sometimes for as long as six months and ecclesia was in place by the time we came here in 2005. continue reading