Costa Clems

The journey of a family called to live as sent disciples in rural Costa Rica, sharing stories of how Jesus is working in their life.


  • We’re still here

    Hi friends. Jenna here. Wanted to let you all know we are still alive! A mixture of busyness and difficult circumstances have kept Bill from posting, please excuse. We’ve continued to have car troubles even with the new-to-us truck, Boinga the Bongo. She broke down when Bill drove to San Jose to pick up our… Continue reading

  • Change your world

    Change your world

    I remember sitting in the back of our minivan in 1992 in Abbottsford B.C. Canada. I think it was in the parking lot of a Home Depot and my mom and my sister were going in to shop for some home improvement items that as an 11 year old boy didn’t interest me at all.… Continue reading

  • “45”

    “45”

    I was born in 1981. I don’t know all the ins and outs of everything that means, but I know a few things that it means. It means I was born in a time with no cell phones, no internet, no gps, no social media, no constant feeds, and no streaming video services. But I… Continue reading

  • Us vs. The World

    Us vs. The World

     And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:17-19 When I was the Family Ministry Director for Mars Hill Church in Ballard we got send a bunch of CD’s that contained songs for kids that formed a catechism by Dana Dirksen. We never used them in the… Continue reading

  • Beta Test

    Beta Test

    As you know a beta test is when you have a program or piece of software or hardware that is almost ready to launch, but you need to find out what the problems are going to be or see if there are any bugs. Basically right now, as in, from yesterday January 27th when we… Continue reading

  • So… Why are you in Costa Rica?

    So… Why are you in Costa Rica?

    This is the thing we get asked most right now, maybe it will continue to be, and we have had many different length conversations about it with family and friends during different stages of our journey. My plan with this blog is to work a little bit backwards and a little bit forwards from this… Continue reading