What is Casa Adobe?

Casa Adobe is a refuge of dreams and subversions, people and personalities, loves and failures, service and rest, laughter and brokenness, mission and meditation, mud and praise, processes and purposes, food and conversation, work and reflection, seeds and shoots of the new creation.

What are we looking for?

Casa Adobe aims to be a community space in which diverse people meet and learn to live together as citizens of Santa Rosa, Costa Rica. We as a community are caring for creation, building justice-centered relationships, and nourishing our faith in a God of love and justice. We are like adobes: Made of clay, imperfect, only strong when a Master unites us, and in need of constant retouching. At the same time, together, we grow in joyful hope that it is possible to embody our dreams and yours.

Who are we?

At Casa Adobe we are people living together from very different nationalities, social backgrounds, abilities, emotions and hopes. We are united by the dream of responding to God’s love through concrete expressions of love for neighbor. Casa Adobe gives us a space to grow in harmony with God, with our land and with our fellow humans. There are many barriers that we must overcome. And we need perseverance and patience to respect each person’s ideas, beliefs and ways of being. On that path we go, begging that Jesus Christ, the supreme reconciler, would open our minds and hearts to unite us as bricks of adobe like what occurs in the construction of an adobe house.

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Casa Adobe members

Tuti
Tuti
Susi
Susi
Camila
Camila
Marivi
Marivi
Harris
Harris
Nati
Nati
Ruth
Ruth
Doña Zeila
Doña Zeila
Luis
Luis
James
James
Heidi
Heidi

Forms of participation

Guests

Guests

Occasional visits: People who come for a specific time, ranging from days to months.

Family visits: People close to a member of the community who stay at Casa adobe.

Guests invited for special situations: People in circumstances of vulnerability, either due to personal crises or due to major causes. (Refugees, single persons, homeless persons, or similar situations, etc.)

Volunteers

Volunteers

Description: People who offer support to one of the community-based service areas. Normally these tasks are channeled through the Asociación Casa Adobe (ACA).

Purpose: Contribute to one of the ACA objectives.

Community members

Community members

Description: People committed to community practices and disciplines of the Casa Adobe Community until God calls them elsewhere. (They can live inside or outside Casa Adobe.)

Purpose: To live fully in service to God, giving and receiving daily in the Casa Adobe community.

Novices

Novices

Volunteers Description: People who are discerning if God is calling them to belong fully to the Casa Adobe community.

Purpose: To try-out community life and its disciplines. To personally, and in community, discern your long-term membership in the Casa Adobe Community.

Term: 2 years, potentially renewable at mutual discretion, after a six-month community review. The inhabitant will live at least 1 year in Casa Adobe.

Interns

Interns

Description: People who are willing to join the community for a predetermined period.

Purpose: Participate in community life to “taste” and learn.

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Community
Practices

We conceive of ourselves as an integral ecclesial experiment. We share diverse community practices: from morning prayer at the table every evening, from work in the garden to recycling grey water, from Sunday reflections to music nights. We try not only to attend church but to live as such from Monday to Sunday.

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