All articles in category Costa Rica
Article
July 2013
Costa Rica
Compassion in Costa Rica
He’s split up fights with street gangs in Costa Rica, but Keith Holder says his most terrifying experience came recently in England. The missionary was awarded an MBE in 2011 for the work he and his wife Joy have done in Costa Rica for the last 20 years. Keith (63) says, ‘It was…
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By Latin America Mission
Article
October 2008
Costa Rica
Missionary Spotlight – Costa Rica at a glance
Costa Rica at a glance Costa Rica is a mountainous Central American nation. Nine per cent of its four million inhabitants profess to be evangelical; 85% are Roman Catholics. Most Costa Ricans are Spanish or mestizo (mixed European-Amerindian); 3% are of black African origin (largely, English-speaking descendants of 19th-century Jamaican immigrants). Spanish…
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By Bill Green
Article
October 2008
Costa Rica
Missionary Spotlight – Coping with upheavals in Costa Rica
Coping with upheavals in Costa Rica The twentieth century witnessed two upheavals, the first being the growth of urban communities. Early in the century 14% of the world’s population lived in cities; today 50% are urbanites.1 If we bear in mind that over the same century world population has more than tripled,…
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By Bill Green
Article
October 2008
Costa Rica
Missionary Spotlight – Dispelling the image
Dispelling the image As one of very few Reformed churches in Costa Rica, our small denomination (comprised of four congregations) swims against a current set by the Roman Catholic Church and the many ‘evangelical’ churches that have sold out to ‘health and wealth’ neo-Pentecostalism. This makes for slow going, but God is good…
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