Leader's Retreat June 2012

Nancy and Karina

A few weeks ago we had our latest Leaders retreat, which took place at our good friends Wes and Stacy’s house. We had a mixture of fun reflection, teaching, and food, as well as times listening to God. The main focus of our retreat waswas to listen to God for ourselves (we are in a pruning back season), and to be reminded of who we are in Christ, the vision of the church, and the vision for 2012. We were also asking God how we needed to respond in this season until August, as a church, individuals, and as a leadership team.

Amanda and Kaleb

The retreat started on Friday night at our house where I shared the vision again, in order that Saturday we could respond to this vision and God’s promptings.

Saturday began with breakfast pancakes made wonderfully by Stacy, thanks again, and we then moved to team building and divided into three groups to see who could build the best spaghetti bridge to support the most number of cars. Because we used to much sellotape all the bridges were very strong and all supported the whole box of cars.  Well we had fun, even though there was no winner from the three teams.  Every team then claimed they had won for one reason or another!

Personal listening time was followed by Chifa, Peruvian Chinese, which came with far too much rice, which was still be eaten on Saturday night and Sunday lunch and evening.

Angela spends some personal listening time in the plants...

After lunch we spent some time listening to God for the church and it was wonderful to hear some of the testimonies of how God is working in the lives of our leaders and what plans he has for the church. Angela commented that she really wanted to learn to be a better disciple and be faithful even when it is hard and especially in the times when there seems to be no way out.  

We finished the day with our leadership’s favourite game Mafia. As usual there were many mistakes made and Rosa was the nurse at least once. (Rosa is training to be a nurse and the first time she played this game with us she was the nurse 5 times. It makes you wonder if AnnaLou being the murderer five times in one night has any significance)!!!

Accusations flying!

Silvana murdering Karina

We love our leadership and are so grateful to God for bringing all of them, he has heard our prayer. Amazingly, in March last year Lili was the only one of our leadership with us.