ESL Teacher
ESL teachers are needed in several Christ For the City ministries located in Costa Rica. CFCI operates many ministries in Costa Rica including children’s programs in slum areas, youth job training, and adult literacy programs. Teachers would be responsible for teaching and tutoring both youth and adults in need of English skills. Some Spanish language skills are necessary, however, if the applicant is not a Spanish speaker but willing to attend language school prior to beginning duties with CFCI, their application is still welcome.
Sports Ministry
There are many reasons that a kid joins a gang. Most gang members are the product of a broken family. Others join gangs because they think that there are no opportunities for them in the community. Studies also show that six out of ten kids join a gang just to pass the time.
Christ For the City in Costa Rica is reaching out to these kids through a program called New Horizons. Located in a slum called La Carpio, New Horizons helps prevent gangs from growing among the area’s youth, most of whom are Nicaraguan refugees.
Sports is one way CFCI staff at New Horizons reaches these kids. There are four sports fields on the center’s property. Three of them were designed for futbol (soccer) and the other for baseball, Nicaragua’s most popular sport.
Bring your passion for sports to San Jose, Costa Rica and reach out to the at-risk and impoverished youth being served at New Horizons through organizing soccer teams and providing discipleship, Bible study, and mentoring. Join us in intervening for good in the lives of youth that may otherwise choose to become involved in gangs and crime.
“We are giving the kids a place to belong. They can find a place to belong in a gang, so that’s why we are trying to build a Christian gang here in La Carpio.” -CFCI Missionary in Costa Rica
Computer Skills Trainer
In the slums of San Jose, Costa Rica many families live in generational poverty, stuck in a cycle of being unable to offer their children good educational opportunities. This has led to few job opportunities and hardly any chances to lift themselves up out of their circumstances and into a better life. With so few opportunities available to them, generation after generation remains locked in poverty.
Christ For the City (CFCI) recognizes the need for both adults and youth to be given chances to learn computer skills that will improve their chances for meaningful and steady employment. CFCI missionaries target the most impoverished areas of the city in which to offer their computer training. This training gives individuals a marketable skill to use in their pursuit of employment.
Come join us in the neediest areas of San Jose and teach computer skills to Costa Ricans and Nicaraguan refugees living in poverty. Not only will you have the chance to make a difference in their economic situation and their family’s future, you will have the chance to build relationships with them and give the greatest gift you have- God’s love.
Kids Club
For many people, Costa Rica calls to mind beautiful beaches and gorgeous canopy tours through the rainforest. While Costa Rica is one of the most beautiful and popular tourist destinations in Latin America, it is also home to many families living in extreme poverty. Christ For the City missionaries intentionally seek out those living in the worst kind of poverty and hopelessness. To this end, many CFCI ministries in San Jose, Costa Rica are focused in the city’s largest slums, areas that are rife with crime, drugs, and prostitution.
In the midst of the drugs and prostitution are the children of these slums. They often have little food, don’t receive much attention from their families, and have little chance of receiving a real education. Kids’ Clubs are one way in which CFCI is reaching out to these children. CFCI ministries target these children with the hope of bringing them food, friends, activities, and most importantly, a chance to hear God’s Word and learn of His love for them.
Through participation in our Kids’ Clubs, you can have a life changing impact on children living without hope. Using crafts, games, sports, and Bible times as a vehicle to build relationships with these children you will have the chance to share Jesus with them, an experience which will impact your life as much as the lives of the children you are serving.
Healthcare Professional in Clinic
Perched precariously on a mountainside is La Carpio, the largest shanty-town in San Jose, Costa Rica. It is accessible by a single road littered with potholes and barely wide enough for two cars. On either side is a sharp drop off created by machines digging in a rock quarry. Huge trucks endlessly rumble over the beaten road toward a city dump, past the makeshift homes of La Carpio; past the children playing in the street; and past the crushing pain and desperation of 5,000 squatter families who call La Carpio home.
Amidst the darkness of La Carpio, God has placed a beacon of light through the ministries of Christ For the City International (CFCI). God set a vision for La Carpio in the hearts of two CFCI missionaries, Sara Bautista and Susan Grosser, while they were working in a similar community nearby. After much prayer and hard work they began ministering to the people of La Carpio. Today they operate a small medical clinic in the area, serving those who may otherwise have no access to affordable healthcare.
You can make a difference in La Carpio and the ministry of CFCI. Bringing your nursing skills to the La Carpio medical clinic helps expand the number of people served by this amazing ministry. As a nurse at the clinic, you would have the opportunity to share God’s love with some of the poorest people of San Jose while simultaneously addressing their physical needs. After clinic hours, you will also have the opportunity to become involved in some of the other ministries CFCI operates in the area. Children’s programs, sports ministry, and women’s ministry are just a few ways you can choose to be even more involved in spreading God’s Word to this needy community.
Children’s Tutor
Costa Rica has the highest literacy rate in Central America, and frequently boasts of its free education for all children, yet throughout the country there are pockets of impoverished families who must choose between educating or feeding their children.
Education is free—but to attend school, parents must send their children in approved uniforms and footwear, and pay for a long list of expensive school supplies and fees. Many families in the areas served by Christ For the City are living on a few dollars a month and all the necessary supplies can add up to $100-$150 per child each year.
Children from this economic level attend overcrowded schools held in 2 or 3 shifts per day. Most learning must be done at home in cramped quarters sometimes without the use of electric lights, educated parents, or a quiet place to study.
Christ For the City International programs offer hope to many families locked in poverty. CFCI programs in the slum areas of San Jose provide tutoring to children who desperately need to catch up on their education. Tutoring classes are held to coach school children in reading, writing, English and mathematics. We invite you become a tutor and join us in helping these children reach their goals and break out of the cycle of generational poverty. Not only can you make a difference in their circumstances, but you will build relationships with kids that will allow you to share God’s love.
Vocational Trainer
In the slums of San Jose, Costa Rica many families live in generational poverty, stuck in a cycle of being unable to offer their children good educational opportunities, leading to few job opportunities and hardly any chances to lift themselves up out of their circumstances and into a better life. With so few opportunities available to them, generation after generation remains locked in poverty.
Christ For the City (CFCI) recognizes the need for both adults and youth to be given chances to learn skills that will improve their chances for meaningful and steady employment. CFCI missionaries target the most impoverished areas of the city in which to offer their vocational training. Training can take the form of woodworking, mechanical training, computer skills, English language classes, sewing, and crafts. This training gives individuals a marketable skill to use in their pursuit of employment.
Come join us in the neediest areas of San Jose and teach new job skills to Costa Ricans and Nicaraguan refugees living in poverty. Not only will you have the chance to make a difference in their economic situation and their family’s future, you will have the chance to build relationships with them and give the greatest gift you have- God’s love.
