The Mission Society provides global missionary support through missionary recruiting, missionary training and equipping church leaders and others to lead international and short-term mission trips. Based in Norcross, GA, The Mission Society was originally formed to support Methodist missionaries, but now works with a variety of Wesleyan denominations offering missionary training, missionary seminars, missionary workshops and church leadership training throughout the United States and around the world.
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Costa Rica

Central America


Year opened: 1986

The Mission Society first opened a field in Costa Rica 1986. Missionaries were sent to work with the Methodist Church in evangelism, hosting short-term mission teams, and other ministries. In 2004 there were no additional requests for personnel from The Mission Society because the Church had become well-established and national leadership was encouraged to take over. However, in 2006 The Mission Society began sending missionaries to Costa Rica again. The Burns and the Tatums now live and minister there.

The Burns family is partnering with Casa Viva (a Viva Network International ministry based in Costa Rica), to promote and facilitate church-based family care for Latin American children in need of a home. As an alternative to traditional orphanage care, Casa Viva recruits Latin American churches to raise up and support families that receive children into their homes that would otherwise end up in government institutions or on the street. Under the Casa Viva model, the state obtains care for the child at a fraction of its traditional cost, the church and family answer God's mandate to care for orphans in distress, and the child becomes part of a family.

Bryan and Beth have been called to serve as house parents in The Costa Rica Methodist Children’s Home. The home is in the process of being prepared and is located northeast of San Jose, Costa Rica in the town of Coronado.

 Prayer Requests

  • Pray for pastors to catch the vision that it is the church (their church) that is to care for the orphan within their communities.
  • Pray for culturally appropriate vision casting to the pastors for ministry to orphans.
  • Pray for humility and willingness for the existing ministries specifically targeted to work with orphans.
  • Pray for a strong desire among the pastors to work together and to share resources.
  • Pray for a strong and large wave of families across Latin America to open their homes to orphaned and abandoned children.
  • Pray for those of us working with children-at-risk to be faithful in prayer, humble in service, and willing to do whatever God asks of us.

 

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