campus ministry retreat

driving into the city

Earlier last week, we had the opportunity to travel to Hinche and spend time with our church’s campus ministry at their annual retreat. The drive there was about 2 and a half hours and absolutely beautiful, as was the local countryside scenery- I’ll have a few posts in the next few days with pictures.

our sleeping quarters

The retreat lasts about 5 or 6 days, but we only stayed one night- and it was a looong night. Without getting into details, the heat and the mosquitos left us with literally, absolutely NO sleep. Our once hesitant-attitudes towards a 5am prayer time quickly shifted to eager anticipation as we counted down the hours through the night to 4:30am so we could finally get up and begin our day.  Andrew and I have found a lot to laugh about from these last couple days…

locals playing futbol on the retreat property

We were asked to speak/teach on Tuesday morning, in which we focused on finding your identity in Christ and shared some of our experiences from leading campus ministry the past couple of years. Afterwards we had a short Q&A, where we got to learn more about their ministry and provide some insight based off of our time in Athens. It was good for our hearts to be with such generous and god-centered young people, and also to learn of needs and find ways we can begin to serve the church here.  The time made us nostalgic for our own beloved campus ministry in Athens (we so wish the two could meet!), but we are looking forward to developing these relationships and being able to watch this ministry of about 40 learn and grow this coming school year.

us with the campus ministry students that attended the retreat

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