Monday morning. First day of Remedio's Youth Retreat in Gibara, Cuba
For the last 3 years youth retreats have been a focus of our
mission-trips to Cuba. I’ve prayed that we find a facility where the youth can
all be together in one place rather scattered in different houses.
We arrived at the retreat site and it is nothing like I
imagined. I pictured a camp with cabins spread out, lush green vegetation, and
a church building. Instead it was church with dorms and kitchen facilities. The
two-story dorm is filled with bunk beds. The young women upstairs and the young
men downstairs. Yet, the facilities are conducive to a retreat. A dining room
for 50 and a meeting room upstairs
with capacity for 60, the sanctuary and most importantly, a staff that cleaned and
fixed the meals for the week.
These are the best facilities we’ve had in three years,
thanks to the funds and resources our church, South Valley Community Church in
Gilroy, CA, has provided. The love
and support is felt as we see these young people praising God for what he has
provided for them.
So we look forward to the tonight as we get together and
worship him in song and hear God’s word, and prepare out hearts and minds for
what God has in store for us during the week.
- Oscar
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