Prayer Retreat

At the end of August, we were so blessed to be able to do a prayer retreat with our colleagues from Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Pretoria, South Africa. We all met at a venue in Salt Rock, South Africa and had just an amazing week together. We did a study of Matt Chandlers on Psalm 119 during our morning times and then had some team building activities in the afternoons and evenings and just enjoyed getting to know each other better and how we can be in prayer for each other. We had fun theme nights-America night, Mexican Fiesta, Birthday Party night glow party, and Hawaiian night. We were able to further dive into Grip Birkman (how to fit and flourish with in the body of Christ) results that showed what our strengths were and how we could relate better to our colleagues, spouses, and ministry partners.
This prayer retreat was made possible by donors to our "special gifts" through the IMB designated specifically for our ministry. We are so thankful to all of you who give. This was a much needed prayer retreat for all of us.

America night-with hamburgers and hotdogs

Even some sparklers

Kids program-learning about being sons and daughters of the KING

Guys (and boys) bike riding outing in Durban

Bonding time for the fellas

Hawaiian night

Tshirts donning the beautiful artwork by
Sarah Harmening. "To the end of the earth"
To see the story of Sarah please click here

 We got to see everyones different personality traits by doing an amazing race. Some of us (aka Brent and Sky especially) are super competitive but I won't name any names, ha ha.

Ready, set, go....

Challenge #1: Go find your shoes spread throughout
the front yard and you must put them on. The
catch is that you can't use your hands so have your
teammates help out.

Challenge #2: Put as many sticky notes on a team member
in 1 minute with no overlapping

Challenge #3: One member on your team race around
an obstacle course with an egg on a spoon in your mouth

Challenge #4: One team member is blindfolded
and the other team members have to instruct them
where to put puzzle pieces

Challenge #5: Draw a number and that corresponds
to a jar of baby food. First team to down their
jar first wins. 

Challenge #6: One team member would go and find all the
individual letters to "Happy Birthday Everyone" and then
go glue them on a sheet

"Happy Birthday Everyone"

Challenge #7: Toss 10 marshmallows in a team members
bowl and then eat them as a team and race back to the mat

Theme night: Birthday Glow Party celebrating
everyones birthday

Girl outing to the spa

Mexican theme night: Pinata fun

We are so thankful for such an amazing team. Truly out friends have become our family!