Religion Roundup
American Doing Missionary Work Drowns in Costa Rica
The Associated Press
July 4, 2008
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - A young man from Pennsylvania has drowned in Costa Rica, where he was doing missionary work.
Matt Garber of Elizabethtown was 22. He graduated in April from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
His mother, Deb Garber, says her son went to Costa Rica last summer through a university cross-cultural program. She says while he was there, he met a missionary family whom he contacted again to help in their work this summer.
She says he went to the beach with the family on Tuesday and got caught in a riptide.
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