iglesia luterana sola_fe

Central American Lutheran Church

Iglesia Luterana “Sola Fe” San Sebastián, San José, Costa Rica

Church Council

What do we do?

We seek to be faithful followers of Jesus Christ in our own context. This means:

* Studying the bible together and relating

life questions to biblical narratives.

* Modeling and encouraging devotional life

* Teaching Lutheran theology and outlook on life: “In Latin America, Lutherans are made, not born” (no nacen, sino se hacen)

* Working to improve the quality of life for our people, mostly Nicaraguan immigrants.

* Serving as a safe place where their culture can be expressed and celebrated.

* Valuing Costa Rican culture and teaching immigrants how to take advantage of educational and other opportunities available here.

Other important topics that we try to work on especially with women and young people, are:

* domestic violence * Gender equality * Responsible use of the gift of

sexuality, prevention of unwanted pregnancies, STD´s, HIV

* The importance of getting an education in order to break the cycle of poverty.

Sola Fe. Some faces!!!

Christmas play

Beach camping trip: Juan Felipe, Johann, Rebecca

Julio Cruz, Kattis Sequeira, Karis Sequeira, Marta Cruz

Wedding: Zaida Sevilla and Gregorio Gonzales

Baptism of Izsani and Josuan

More activities

Youth sorting through donated supplies for the Costa Rican

earthquake victims at the Costa Rican Red Cross

Trip to Children´s Museum with S.S.

Our future plans Where the church and member homes are

currently located is a squatter´s settlement/shanty town, and may be evicted in the near future. We need to move and build a

* Church * Single family homes * Guesthouse and playground.The guesthouse will provide employment

opportuni- ties for members as well as income for the church. We hope this effort will provide greater stability for families and contribute to the wholistic development of all.

Our dream: buy land

Some details about this plot of land: The price for the land today is $367,000 * Salem Lutheran Church in Fremont, Nebraska

has given us $25,000 from the Endowment Fund; certain individuals have given $2,000.

* Susquehanna University $5,000.

Meanwhile, we are looking in to the possibility of forming a cooperative to provide more and better paid work for our members.

We hope to be able to negotiate a lower price, and we are also looking at other pieces of land. Once land is purchased, our members will be able to obtain help for building homes from the Costa Rican government.

All Saints Lutheran Church, Hartland, Michigan Visit to JNR in February 2009

Some pictures of our relationships

German Lutheran Church

Nicaraguan Evangelical Lutheran Church

Susquehanna University

Latin American Council of Churches C Rica

Some final words… We are eagerly looking forward to meeting

the members of Christ Lutheran Church and are praying fervently that God would bless our preparation for the trip and work His will during our time together.

We look forward to sharing our faith, our music, our food, hopes and dreams, our laughter and culture. And we await receiving your gifts: of time, skills, music, friendship, laughter, culture, faith, and more.

We pray for an enriching time together and a continued relationship of encouraging eachother in faith, hope and mutual service in Christ.

May God bless you all!