“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.
2026 Vision Trip
Experience how relationships transform communities! When you go on a Vision Trip to Faithful Servant Missions, you’ll experience an empowering relational model of missions that not only transforms the community, but empowers you, too.
This trip is ideal for anyone who is interested in learning about the vision and programs of FSM:
Pastors, Youth Leaders, Discipleship and Life Group Volunteers
Church nomads or those without a church to serve internationally with
Anyone interested in learning a relational, empowering missiology
DETAILS
Dates: October 7-12, 2026
Cost: $650 per person (includes all ground transportation, all meals, lodging, travel insurance, retreat activities, and excursion)
Flights: Each attendee will be responsible for booking their own flights. Fly into San José (Juan Santamaría International Airport, SJO). Plan to arrive midday on October 7 and depart midday October 12.
Registration Process: Register for the retreat and fill out the Mission Trip Forms at www.faithfulservantmissions.org/trip-forms. Email your flight information 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 September 1. Space is limited. Fill out the Mission Trip Application to secure your spot.
Cultivate Women’s Trip
CULTIVATE is a hybrid “Sabbath and serve” experience. Join women from multiple generations and multiple churches to seek God, abide in his love, and share 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.
DETAILS
Dates: January 18-25, 2027
Cost: $800 per person (includes all ground transportation, all meals, lodging, travel insurance, retreat activities, and excursion)
Flights: Each attendee will be responsible for booking their own flights. Fly into San José (Juan Santamaría International Airport, SJO). Plan to arrive midday on January 18 and depart midday January 25.
Registration Process: Register for the retreat and fill out the Mission Trip Forms at www.faithfulservantmissions.org/trip-forms. Email your flight information 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 December 31. Space is limited. 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.”