Mylinda and Gary are pastors and professors but mainly friends and connectors who walk alongside their sisters and brothers in Christ. They enjoy connecting students with leadership training, connecting scriptures to everyday life, and connecting people’s gifts with life changing ministries.

The Baitses work with the Costa Rican Baptist Federation in pastoral and lay leadership development and theological education. There is an urgent need for committed, trained servant leaders for the churches. Recruiting, training, and encouraging leaders are high on their list of ministry priorities.

Mylinda writes: Marcia had just spent the last week with the children at the Centro de Transformación Mariposa, teaching new songs, making animal noises, being silly and loving on them like only a pre-school teacher can.  I was happy to know that my invitation for Marcia to come and help us with teacher training was a significant blessing not only to our teachers, but for the children they are serving. 

Marcia Logan was my children's pre-school teacher while we were living and serving in pastoral ministry in Port Angeles, WA. She has many years of experience working with children and their families and was open to sharing her experiences with our friends here in Costa Rica. She accepted my invitation to come because she had been praying for an opportunity to serve in missions wherever God would have her. The folks at the Centro de Transformación had been praying for someone to strengthen their needed skills in positive discipline, curriculum planning, and in developing their activity center-based classroom. Marcia was blessed by her time with the children and their teachers, with her home-stay families in La Guacima and her church's sister church in Santo Tomás, and by the way God used her gifts and skills to bless others.

 The churches in La Guacima and Santo Tomás as well as the Centro de Transformación were blessed by her presence and now miss having her close.  … Marcia brought good news of encouragement to us as she walked in our shoes here in Costa Rica. Now she is bringing good news of what God is doing in Costa Rica to her home in Port Angeles, WA. Thanks for your prayers and giving that make these connections possible.

• Pray for Gary and Mylinda as they carry out their ministry of recruiting, training, and encouraging leaders.