Costa Rica Methodist Orphanage
Our church has been given the opportunity to help create, build and support the first Methodist orphanage in Costa Rica. Ray and Lidia Zirkel, our Methodist missionaries, will oversee the project. And since Ray is a former member of HPUMC, they are uniquely capable of integrating our members into every phase of development, construction and ongoing support.
The Costa Rica Methodist Orphanage will receive children who have been legally declared abandoned and raise them in a model Christian environment until such time as they are either adopted or reach adulthood.
Overview
Generous HPUMC members have already given over $400,000 to purchase seven acres of land and complete a master site plan (above). Phase One of our Master Plan now includes the construction of two orphanage homes, a recreational area (outdoor basketball court & playground), a multi-purpose activity center, renovation & expansion of the existing home (for administration & maintenance) and necessary site improvements (entry gate, road, parking area, perimeter fence, site grading).
Objectives
• Establish a permanent residential facility with a Christian family environment to meet the children’s basic needs.
• Establish a model of care and attention which is founded on a Christian family spirit of peace, integrity, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity.
• Create an alternate form of protection for the children in the form of a true home.
• Offer the children a place where they can know and grow in their love for Jesus Christ.
• Provide the children the opportunity to become active members in the life of a local congregation and attend a Christian school (The Methodist School).
• Prepare the children physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, educationally and recreationally to be fully integrated members of Costa Rican (or some other) society.
We Need Your Financial Support
$400,000 Build the Multi-Purpose Activity Center
$200,000 Build an Orphanage Home (two are needed)
$100,000 Build our road, parking lot & basketball court
$50,000 Renovate & expand administrative building
$25,000 Sponsor the entry gate, sign & front fence
$15,000 Sponsor a child’s bedroom & bathroom
$10,000 Sponsor a kitchen in one of the homes
$5,000 Sponsor the purchase of beds, tables & chairs
$2,500 Sponsor a child’s educational costs for a year
$1,000 Sponsor the purchase of food & clothing
Total Investment Needed to Build Phase One = $1,000,000
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How the orphanage came to be Building Toward a Century of Change... a series of large mission projects HPUMC is rolling out between now and HPUMC’s Centennial Celebration in 2016.
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