New Life supports The Zirkel Family Ministry in Costa Rica. They help smaller Methodist Churches in the poorer parts of Costa Rica get built, run a Children's Home for about 25-30 children, help ensure the Methodist School aspires to academic excellence for all the children, and even participate at the Methodist Seminary. 

Ray & Lydia Zirkel have been ministering in Costa Rica since 1995. New Life goes to Costa Rica every other year to help with their ministries.

Learn more by visiting The Zirkel Family website.

Join us in praying for our friends:
Pray for health, strength, and wisdom for Ray & Lydia in all that they do. Pray that they can get all that they need to succeed in the different areas they serve in. Pray that they are able to transform lives of not just those that serve but with those that come to the Zirkel to serve as well.

Update: April 2022

Rejoicing! Construction on the Ministry Center at the Children’s Home is complete.

On March 31, we dedicated the ministry center at the children’s home. We celebrated with several pastors, mission team members, and guests from both the United States and Costa Rica as well as local government officials. The children sang and danced. Two of our teens talked about life at the Children’s Home and we all enjoyed a typical Costa Rican lunch together. It was a beautiful day.

We cannot begin to express our gratitude to the 105 short term mission teams and over 2000 individuals who worked on the building over the past seven years. The floor and the walls are filled with mason jars containing hundreds of prayers from mission team members. Today, the building is being used as a school for the children at the Home. Yet, we pray this is only the beginning; it is our desire that the ministry center be a place where many will come to know Christ. Where we will reach out to our neighbors in love and minister to them through various forms of ministry: Bible Studies, community kitchen, clothes closet, sports center. We look toward the future with great hope and expectation!

We want to thank each of you who came to Costa Rica and worked on the building, each of you who have been praying for the for us, and each of you who have supported us with your financial gifts. We could not have done this with out you. Thank you for investing deeply in the children. We are most grateful.

Many may be asking, What’s next? This Summer and Fall we will be refurbishing the homes the children live in and their furniture, closets, and doors. Plus, we now have the permits in hand to finish the exterior wall around the property and we will be working on a storage shed for the construction equipment.

This year with the return of mission teams, it will be our joy to continue working on the four church plants in the Sarapiqui (northeast Costa Rica) region. If your church would like to come and join in the fun, we would love to have you.

All our love,

Ray and Lidia

“I think my God every time I remember you in all my prayers for all of you. I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Phil.1:3-6