Source: Every Home for Christ, February 3, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was all going according to plan, from Pastor Melvin Mora\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Churches from all over the community of Ujarras de Cariblanco had gathered to carry Christ to their neighbors in homes and public spaces. It was a perfect Saturday for outreach, too. Bright, warm sun filled the park where Melvin and his team were chatting with people as they passed, praying, and giving away Bibles and gospel literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Melvin\u2019s attention was drawn, over and over, to a man sitting by himself on a bench a little distance away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He sat beside the man and began to share about God\u2019s love, mercy, and the forgiveness we can have through Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Almost as soon as Melvin began speaking, the man on the bench burst into tears. Melvin leaned in to hear the man\u2019s words through his weeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have a knife with me right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI was planning to kill someone today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a> to hear what God did in this situation. Spoiler: nobody died. Praise God for bringing new life, instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check out these prayer maps<\/a> from Every Home for Christ. \u201cCan you imagine a world where every single living soul feels and knows they are loved by God? Just think of the power of that universal love\u2014flowing everywhere, through everyone, pulverizing pain, suffering, conflict, hate, loneliness, and leaving joy, togetherness, and harmony in its wake. Now, do more than think of it\u2014pray on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Every Home for Christ, February 3, 2026 It was all going according to plan, from Pastor Melvin Mora\u2019s perspective. Churches from all over the community of Ujarras de Cariblanco had gathered to carry Christ to their neighbors in homes and public spaces. It was a perfect Saturday for outreach, too. Bright, warm sun filled … Continue reading Costa Rica: A Divine Interruption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14477,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14476\/revisions\/14477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}