Gary and Karen Shogren are WorldVenture missionaries to Costa Rica. Gary is professor of New Testament at Seminario ESEPA and is a blogger and author. Karen teaches at ESEPA and also specializes in sexual abuse and the church. They have four adult children who live in the USA, and one grandson.
Karen Shogren
Gary Shogren
Shogrens in Costa Rica 
Hi Gary!
Love what you’re doing! I also served overseas 21 years. Now I’m a pastor in SC (PhD Leicester via Tyndale House Cambridge) – and noticed that you AND Gene Green both have published commentaries on 1 Thessaloninas, and you both taught at ESEPA. Assuming you are colleagues? Would love to hear more of your story – how you both ended up there and both published academics on the same topic!
Hi Adam, so sorry for the delay! Gene Green was NT professor at ESEPA for some years. He was leaving just as I expressed interest in going there, so we did not overlap. We were amused that two NT persons were Aberdeen grads. And we both published commentaries on 1-2 Thessalonians (I with the ZECNT series, Gene with Pillar). This was not planned by ourselves!
ESEPA will shortly be celebrating 40 years. Gene was there for the earlier years, and I went down to learn Spanish and begin to teach in 1998. I am still on faculty, as is my wife, although all our work is now doine online.
Blessings! Gary