An inter-generational Mission Team from Kure Memorial Lutheran Church in Kure Beach, North Carolina spent a week learning from, serving with, and strengthening relationships with the day care communities of Casa Abierta in Alejuelita and La Carpio as well as the ILCO faith communities in Puriscal and Guatuso.

The Costa Rican Lutheran Church develops the children's program Open House in order to facilitate the daily lives of working families, especially single mothers with limited economic resources, who have difficulties finding a place to leave their sons and daughters when they have to go to work.