Toronto School of Ministry Part 1: Welcome to 2011 (a little belately)

The last 3 weeks have been very busy with a team from the Catch the Fire School of Ministry in Toronto, Canada. www.catchthefire.com . We were very excited about God would do through these 15 young adults. The team arrived on the 31st December and we left the airport just before 2010 became 2011. The night was alive with the sound of celebration as people welcomed the new year in.

Laura one of the team leaders at the airport. (couldn't turn the photo round for some unknown reason)!

Fireworks in Peru do not have the same regulations as the UK do and people set off rockets off in their hands, throw cheap fireworks that make a lot of noise and nothing else, in the street, and have small random fires at the side of the road. This causes the streets to sound, look and smell as though we are in a war torn zone. The 14 of us (One of the team lost their passport and so was not able to travel)arrived just after 1 in the morning and the 9 girls were allocated their rooms and the boys slept on mattresses next door.
Day 2, New Years Day involved a short session of orientation and a tour around our local neighbourhood, with the highlight being the beach, which is only 5 blocks away. The beach was frequented on a regular basis by many members of the team and was a good getaway for a team full of introverts in a relatively small house full of 18 people!!!

Miraim releasing some steam!!

Even though it is summer here this was still madness!

New Years day in Peru is the biggest Public Holiday in the Peruvian calendar as the shops are all open all other public holidays to a lesser or greater extent, therefore the team were struggling to eat on the first day, but one bought loaf and a leftover panetone kept them going until the Sunday, when the shops were back to normal.

Taken on our tour round the neighbourhood.