Above: Vicky and Gerardo Calderón, Beulah's house parents in the front room of the home. While Gerardo operated his own business as a clock maker and repairer, the couple served as associate pastors for a number of years at Mundo de Fe Church in San José. During the years they raised their four children, two boys and two girls, the Lord prepared them for ministry at Hogar Beulah by using them to provide refuge in their own home for a number of girls and young women throughout the years.

The primary outreach of Beulah Ministries is Hogar Beulah, a place of refuge for hurting girls deemed by the Costa Rican government to be at social risk. Hogar Beulah operates according to Bible-based home and child rearing principles and functions under the auspices of Costa Rican law. As such Hogar Beulah also enjoys a communal working relationship with the child welfare agency, the Patronato Nacional de Infancia (PANI).

Just recently, a social worker accompanied by a psychologist employed at the PANI inspected Hogar Beulah and subsequently published a report upholding the girls’ home as exemplary of the kind desired around the country to eliminate the need to assign trained professionals to counsel and to nurture children at social risk. Clearly, Vicki and Gerardo’s spiritual maturity and wisdom are key ingredients to Beulah’s success; the favor of God continues to be another key. Pray that word of God’s favor over Beulah will spread and that God will ignite the vision in others.

In June, Beulah received two new girls into the home. Geraldine (11) and Stephanie (10) are sisters admitted to the home after their mother had been imprisoned for drug trafficking, leaving the girls to live alone and to fend for themselves for three months before Beulah’s foster mom, Vicki, had learned of the girls’ plight and had requested Costa Rican board member Venus Kornelson to investigate the possibility of receiving the girls. The girls have rid themselves of the lice that had plagued them and have learned from Vicki basic personal hygiene habits such as daily bathing that they had never learned before. 

All the Beulah residents attend church together as a family at a local nondenominational congregation, where they have made friends in the community and experienced life-changing healing in Jesus. All of the girls except the newcomers, Geraldine and Stephanie, have come to know Christ as their personal savior and have been baptized since their arrival.

Above: In the front room of Hogar Beulah Abba (l), Claudia (c) and Marilyn (r) unpack clothes donated and imported by a recent short-term missions team. All of the missions teams that visit Hogar Beulah supply one hundred percent of the girls' wardrobes. Many household items, such as linens and small kitchen applicances, as well as personal hygiene products, are also donated by missions teams.