Grecia, Costa Rica:  

Teo Alpizar Vargas and his wife, Eugenia Jimenez have been our missionaries in the Grecia Church in Costa Rica for over 30 years.  Grecia has a population of 80,000+ people with the Church being located on the south side of the city.

The Grecia Church is the first church building that 7th and Mueller built in Costa Rica. It has an auditorium that seats about 120 people with classrooms for children and a youth center for teens along with an office for Teo. The Church host many fellowship events using the youth center and kitchen it provides.

The Church also has a van they use for people without transportation. They make two trips going and coming, picking up the members for each service.

Grecia have both elders and deacons serving the congregation. Teo also serves on the camp board of Camp Jennie Sue in Sarchi.

Naranjo, Costa Rica:  

Edilberto (Eddie) Córdoba and Karina Duran have been our missionaries in the Narnajo Church of Christ in Costa Rica for the past 20 years.

Eddie was born on the island of Bocas del Toro in Panama and raised in a Christian family. He was baptized when he was 15 years old and then attended the Bible School of the Americas earning his degree in 1999. In February 2000, he moved to Naranjo in Costa Rica to work as a full-time preacher.  In 2001, Eddie married Karina Durán and have since had two children: their son Caleb (14) and daughter Darah (11).

Eddie organizes door-to-door evangelism, bible studies for the children in the community, evangelistic campaigns, as well as many other activities.

Naranjo is a community dedicated to the cultivation of coffee and as such has many migrant farmers during coffee picking season which return home at the end. The established population around Narnajo is 45 thousand and increases for the months of the coffee harvest.

Camp Jennie Sue:  

Camp Jennie Sue was started by the Wendell Eubanks family in honor of Jennie, Wendell's wife. Jennie was an avid supporter of the work in Costa Rica and was active in getting 7M involved.

The camp extends over several acres of beautiful Costa Rica landscape.  The main building houses a commercial kitchen along with a covered open air fellowship hall which can seat 250 people.  The camp has 6 cabins (3 for girls, and 3 for boys) and sleeps 160 people. There is a gym, soccer field and kids play area.

The camp is used by all the churches in Costa!! Rica. They have sessions for all age children and teens through out the year. There are also many adult activities for men and women. Churches get together and have Sunday worship services at camp and then spend the afternoon in fellowship. There are many small churches in Costa Rica so the camp makes a great place for the Christians to fellowship together.

Weddings held at the Camp are very poplular among members from churches all around Costa Rica! The camp has a beautiful outdoor area for the ceremony and then the reception is held in the main building.

The camp hosts many churches from the States as they come down to work with the churches they support in Costa Rica. The camp also hosts many work groups that come down to work at various churches.

The camp has over 30 types of fruit and nut trees, along with 5 types of bananas. The camp grows its own coffee and coco. This is then used for all activities held at camp.

The local board of directors are ministers from local churches in Costa Rica. The elders of the 7th and Mueller church are the board of directors of record and the camp is owned by the 7th and Mueller church.

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Athens, Greece:  

In Athens, Greece, Dino and Mata Tzanetos are long time missionaries who continue to produce great fruit in the kingdom. Their congregational work includes two regular Sunday services (Greek and English speaking), Bible classes, Outreach/Benevolence programs, weekly home Bible studies, annual VBS and a Relief program to aid the many unemployed members, due to the bad Greek economy. Other projects include a mission program among the 1.5 million immigrants living and working in Athens, a 2 Year Bible School (AIBI), which is a branch of the SIBI, and an especially successful prison ministry.

Their efforts reach throughout Greece and into other countries, such as Albania and Nigeria.

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The Siriat Bible School located in Sotik, Kenya was established in 1998 and has been supported by the 7^th and Muller Church of Christ from its beginning. Our ties go back to Gailyn and Becky VanRheenen  who we sent as missionaries to Kenya back in 1973. Becky (Lenderman) VanRheenen grew up in the 7^th and Mueller congregation. From the churches planted by this mission effort, the school was started to train preachers to preach in the churches in Kenya and surrounding countries.

David Touni served as it first principal and has traveled back and forth from Kenya to the United States to help raise money for the school. He received his masters from Abilene University. David served as the principal for 13 years and is still on the board of the school.

The school trains men to become preachers of the word, but also trains them in vocational skills. This will allow them to be able to work, earn a living, and preach in the churches in Kenya and other countries. The school has seminars and workshops for both men, women, elders, and church leaders in the area to build up the Churches of Christ in Kenya. They now send missionaries to surrounding countries.

 We continue to work with the board of the Siriat Bible School. They have just finished a new dormitory that was named after one of our members Alvin Taylor because of all the help that he had given to the school. Robert Cheruiyot is now serving as the principal of the bible school. We have helped them to get a new water pump at the school and internet access also. It is an effort that has been blessed and showed great growth. There are now over 200 Churches of Christ among the Kipsigis people in Kenya. We will continue to make visits and build our relationship with the Siriat Bible School in Sotik, Kenya.

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