COSTA RICA 2019 LOGISTICS
Packing, Roles, and Responsibilities
Note to the team
VBS & BLOCK PARTY
VBS (SLUMS) Saturday 10-4
BLOCK PARTY Sunday 1-4
VBS (SPECIAL NEEDS) Monday 10-4
We separated the the entire team into 5 Groups: Crafts, Music, Skits, Games, and Support.
Skit: Nathan, Amy, Rachel, Kendall, Kamie, Jackson
Games: Matt, Jonathan, Jamie, Jerry, Edwin, Wesley, Chloe
Music: Josh, Sarah, Nicole, Samantha, Jesshyi, Erin, Kristen
Crafts: Aaron, Jessleung, May, Hayley, Alexis, Allison, Natalie
Support: Andy, Tom, Michael, Bonnie, Justin, Robert, Dominic, Ken
YOUTH SERVICE (Saturday 7-10)
Nature & Purpose of the Night: We will be gathered with youth leaders and workers in the local community. They typically don't get a lot of training and so we will be partnering with them and giving them as much as we possibly can in a limited amount of time. Est. time = 2 hours.
- 30 minutes
- Led by: Justin Wong
- Topics: Special category, New research, Needs of a youth
Part 2: "Explaining the 7 Core Values"
- 5 minutes each
- Explain: What it is (how we define it biblically & philosophically); why it's important; +/- examples
- Depth - Josh
- Community - Alexis
- Discipleship - Hayley
- Truth - Jerry
- Service - Jonathan
- Missions - Allison
- Prayer - Natalie
BREAK
- 10 minutes
Part 3: "Round table"
- 10 min each
- There will be 4 groups that will be engaged in interactive dialogue about one particular part of youth ministry
- Programming - Robert
- Bible Teaching - Aaron
- Games - Kendall/Nicole
- Discipleship - Jessica/Sarah
Part 4: "Q&A"
- 20 minutes
- Led by Justin
- ***cut if we don't have time
INDIVIDUAL PACKING LIST
Each person is allowed: 1 Carry on & 1 Backpack
- Clothing: comfortable clothing while traveling, rest days, and at the ranch. Work clothes - 2.5 days of painting/construction (closed toes shoes + discardable clothes, shorts are allowed). Sunday clothes (appropriate casual). VBS - 2 days (appropriate casual).
- Bedding: all bedding and linens are provided at the ranch.
- Toiletries (sunscreen, toothpaste, toothbrush, lotion, etc.)
- Towel
- Rain jacket and/or Light Jacket
- Bug repellent
- Shoes & Sandals (i.e. for showers)
- Flashlight
- Ear Plugs and/or headphones
- Passport & ID
- Light bible, Writing Stuff & Journal
- Swimsuit(s) - personal judgment.
- Medicine
- Cell phone & charger
- Water bottle
- Personal work tools & accessories if desired.
- Gifts for the local children, youth, and staff
San José Province, Costa Rica Monthly Weather
CELL PHONES INFO
Verizon recently expanded their “TravelPass” to include Costa Rica for $10 per phone per day which is extremely expensive. The TravelPass doesn’t include any extra minutes or data. It just allows you to use the minutes and data from your existing plan while you’re in Costa Rica.
T-Mobile is a little different and by far the best overall if you’re from the U.S. They don’t have an international service that can be added separately. All of their “Simple Choice” plans already include some form of international service. The un-discounted** rate $50 a month per phone plus taxes for 6 Gigs data with unlimited talk & text domestic includes unlimited international data and text and reduces the cost of international phone calls from $2.69 a minute to $0.20 a minute.
AT&T offers 3 different 30 day “Global Passport” packages priced from $30 to $120 that include free texting, reduce the cost of voice to $0.35 – $1.00 a minute and include 150 – 800 MB of data.
Sprint is the only major carrier we’ve found that offers their customers a plan in Costa Rica without extra charges. You must sign up in advance for the “Open World” program which includes unlimited talk and text plus 1 GB of data.
Source: https://costa-rica-guide.com/practical/phones/will-my-phone-work/