CHARLOTTE — Watch this short video about three diocesan seminarians, recently ordained by Bishop Peter Jugis as transitional deacons, who spent the summer of 2015 at a Spanish immersion school in Santa Ana, Costa Rica.
Deacons Brian Becker, Christopher Bond and Christian Cook studied Spanish at Costa Rica’s Conversa Language School for eight weeks to better prepare themselves to minister to the needs of the growing Latino population in the Diocese of Charlotte.
“I’m very happy that I’ve had the opportunity to go down to learn as much as I can, and to be able to extend that ministry towards those people who haven’t had the opportunity to learn English to whatever extent I’m able to offer,” Deacon Becker said.
— Rico De Silva, Hispanic Communications Reporter