Every 2 years the Central Latin American missionaries have a retreat in a special place where everyone can fit! There are almost 200 of us in El Salvador. There is a speaker for the youth, the children, and the adults. On Thanksgiving day the host missionaries prepare the pies and bring the turkeys and cranberry to the resort. The retreat started on Monday evening with a service and concluded on Thanksgiving evening. The only thing missing was the football. But we didn't need it, that's for sure! The speakers were so great. The food delicious. The fellowship awesome. Old friends, new friends, people we went to language school with in 1987. Old timers, newbies, children and teens! It was great. On Thanksgiving after the morning session there was a water baptismal for the children that wanted baptized. It was so wonderful for their fathers to baptize them with all the aunties and uncles standing around the pool.
Ransomed is a music group from Southwestern Bible College. They were fabulous leading us into worship.
This was a special retreat in that the Nicholson's are retiring from the regional director position, not retiring from traveling in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dick and Cynthia were special guests as well as the new missionary couple taking the position, Dave and Carol Ellis. What beautiful people. It was an honor to be at the retreat.
The El Salvador superintendent and his wife came to greet the missionaries. Our leaders then prayed for them.
Valerie Rance from AGTS brought the pretty things from the states to decorate the Thanksgiving tables. Carol Ellis brought all kinds of special holiday powdered creamers for the coffee breaks! YUM!
On Friday Morning the transport began. Taking people to the airport. Taking people to the hotel in San Salvador to fly out on Saturday. Some crossed borders and drove themselves. Such an exciting time! We were all ready to go home and face our work with enthusiasm once again!
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