“Therefore, go…”
A DAY IN THE LIFE
Typically, teams arrive to San Ramón with a typical Costa Rican meal and settle in for the week ahead. They join La Viña for a community church service on Sunday morning and daily prayer with the FSM education staff.
Beyond that, mission teams choose from a variety of projects and events to support the community. Typically this looks like hosting Vacation Bible School, Youth Group, visits with community members, Women’s Night, and contributing to the regular weekly education and ministry programs that happen all year long at the mission.
ARRANGEMENTS
San Ramón is a beautiful 45 minute drive from the San José airport, surrounded by mountains, valleys, and coffee farms. The mission is an enclosed, secure 2+ acre facility with a 3-bedroom lodge and 3-bedroom house for mission teams and guests. Both housing areas have two bathrooms each, hot water showers, potable drinking water, and a kitchen.
Meals are typical Costa Rican foods prepared by local cooks. FSM is able to accommodate most dietary restrictions.
Mission trip costs include all room and board, and excursions chosen by the mission team. Examples include visiting a nearby volcano, ox cart factory, or coffee farm tour.
PEOPLE OVER PROJECT
One of the best things about serving with FSM is the relationships that form in Bajo Tejares. Even with a language barrier, undeniable connections are built between locals and visiting mission team members.
Our goal is not for mission teams to bring a project to complete, but to bring love to give. We encourage teams to focus first on the transformational power of God working in the lives of all people across the world, including their own. Through events and programs, we create opportunities to share God’s love with each other.
Experience How Empowerment Transforms Communities
When was the last time you felt productive, purposeful, and peaceful?
Maybe you’ve felt productive at work, completing your projects and daily tasks. But you leave wondering if you’re really making an impact? Or you give generously of your time, talent, or treasure, supporting your community with purpose. But you feel an uneasiness inside of you knowing there’s more help needed. Or you finally get a day to prioritize rest, feeling God’s peace as you abide in his love. But by the end of the day, the creeping feeling that you didn’t do enough that day makes you wonder if it was even worth it.
If you’ve felt this way, it’s time to take a step back and refocus on what matters most.
When you go on a Vision Trip to FSM, you’ll experience an empowering model of missions that not only transforms the community you serve, but empowers you, too! Embrace healthy productivity, recover your purpose, and encounter God’s peace on a Vision Trip with Faithful Servant Missions.
Here’s what to expect when you spend a week with FSM in Bajo Tejares:
Hands-on cultural immersions
Serve the local community
Support the staff and church leaders
Experience how empowerment transforms communities
Imagine how one week focused on productivity, purpose, and peace can impact lives–both yours and the ones you serve. Join us on a Vision Trip this October 4-11.
DETAILS
Dates: October 4-11, 2025
Cost: $600 per person (includes all ground transportation, all meals, room & board, retreat activities and excursion)
Flights: Each attendee will be responsible for booking their own flights and travel insurance as required by FSM. Fly into San José (Juan Santamaría International Airport, SJO). Plan to arrive midday on October 4 and depart midday October 11.
Registration Process: Register for the retreat and fill out the Mission Trip Forms at www.faithfulservantmissions.org/trip-forms. Email your flight information and proof of travel insurance (can be purchased through the airline) to info@fsm4u dot org.
Space is limited to 20 people. Fill out the Mission Trip Application to secure your spot.
Questions? Email us and we’ll be in touch!
Visit Costa Rica for a Women’s Retreat and Mission Trip
CULTIVATE is a hybrid trip unlike anything we’ve seen before! It’s a multi-generational encounter of serving and Sabbath rest. Experience the culture and beauty of Costa Rica as you meet with God through nature. Connect with the hearts of women across the world through bilingual Bible Study.
Part retreat, part mission trip, CULTIVATE is a week of women seeking God, abiding in his love, and sharing it with others.
We picked the word “cultivate” as our theme because it seems to embrace this idea best with both definitions:
“To prepare and use for crops or gardening” such as grow, dig, work, tend, or fertilize. It’s breaking up the soil in preparation for planting, or raising for a purpose.
“To try to acquire or develop a quality, sentiment, or skill” such as pursue, foster, nurture, encourage, or favor. It’s improving or developing, refining or elevating, educating or training.
This week will be an intentional time of breaking up the soil of our souls to be prepared for new growth! Through individual and communal spiritual practices, we trust God will use this time to prepare each attendee for what he’s calling you to next. Our hope is to acquire new connections, develop spiritual practices, and encourage the people of Bajo Tejares to do the same.
DETAILS
Dates: February 9-16, 2026
Cost: $800 per person (includes all ground transportation, all meals, room & board, retreat activities and excursion)
Flights: Each attendee will be responsible for booking their own flights and travel insurance as required by FSM. Fly into San José (Juan Santamaría International Airport, SJO). Plan to arrive midday on February 9 and depart midday February 16.
Registration Process: Register for the retreat and fill out the Mission Trip Forms at www.faithfulservantmissions.org/trip-forms. Email your flight information and proof of travel insurance (can be purchased through the airline) to info@fsm4u dot org.
Payment plans are available and we encourage you to fundraise, inviting others to partner with you in serving. Donations can be made online, cash, check, or Venmo; designate your name in the memo line. Payment in full is due January 10. Space is limited to 20 women. Fill out the Mission Trip Application to secure your spot.
Women from the Bajo Tejares community will join many of our excursions as we cultivate connections, made possible only through generous donations of the FSM family. You can sponsor these women by making a donation to FSM with the designation “CULTIVATE.”