SUPPORTED MINISTRIES

La Costa Colombia is a helping mission focused on assisting and developing indigenous missions on the coastal cities of Colombia. We partner with churches and foundations with whom we share essential doctrinal agreement to provide training and development to local missions and churches, scholarships for Christian youth, and medical missions in partnership with FAME.

Our ministry helps support them financially and provides spiritual oversight. Through our ministry partners we are able to help with all of those works.

Ministry focused families on the coasts of Colombia are waiting to be maximized to reach the lost.

Casa Firme only began three years ago but this group of about 80 Christians has started a children’s ministry in their neighborhood that feeds and teaches 160 children.

The children always receive a nutritious meal and a Bible lesson accompanied by songs and lots of loving attention. Mothers often stay and watch and Elida Camargo, Roger Torres’ wife, has developed a ministry to those young mothers. La Costa Colombia provides half the funds for the feeding ministry and Casa Firme gives from their meager means for the other half.

The ministry has been feeding twice a week for the last couple of years. But a recent grant from our ministry partner IDES has enabled us to expand that ministry temporarily to 5 days a week. When that grant runs out at the end of the year, it is our hope to have raised enough support to continue the feedings for 5 days a week.

Your support in whatever amount will have a meaningful impact in that effort. You can visit the Facebook (Meta) page of Casa Firme by clicking here.

To date 62 students have gone through the scholarship program. These young people have become teachers, coaches, dentists, attorneys, and engineers. The majority have chosen to stay in their neighborhood and help to bring improvements there. They are a wonderful blessing the local ministries.

In 2015 five students in our scholarship program decided to begin a sports ministry for the Las Flores neighborhood. Las Flores has about 15,000 residents and is a hotbed of narcotics and human trafficking as well as gang activity. The sprots ministry is designed to give young people healthy activities while teaching them the love of Jesus Christ.

Medical and non-medical personnel are encouraged to participate in this trip. There is a great deal of work and everyone will find themselves to be useful.

The aspect of this work that is particularly satisfying is the level of participation from Colombian medical professionals. They have expressed gratitude for having the opportunity to serve their fellow Colombians in this way. The medical school at the Universidad del Atlántico sends students to assist the doctors and nurses. This collaboration has been very fruitful and we expect to expand to other cities soon.

The Hebrew word mahanaim means God’s camp. That is exactly what you will find in the Pacific coast city of Buenaventura, a spiritual encampment of Christians faithfully serving in what is known to be one of the most dangerous cities in Colombia. This ministry was the dream of Narciso Minota.

As a antive of Buenaventura he desperately wanted to share what he had found in Christ with his city. He and his wife, Josefina, came to the city wit virtually nothing and built a church little by little. Narciso actually did most of the work on their physical facilty which is big enough for 100 attendees.

Unfortunately, in 2017 Narciso contracted spinal meningitis and never recovered, passing from this earth to be with the Lord. However, the church did not want his work to stop. So they asked his widow, Josefina to be their Executive Pastor which she has done since her husband’s death.