New Year’s Youth Retreat
New Year’s weekend, our local church here in Ticuman held a youth retreat at El Monte.
The focus of the retreat was new beginnings in your walk with Christ. It was a great turn-out with some that do not normally come to youth group!
They did a great job programming a variety of activities to enjoy fellowship while interacting with the subject at hand.
Rock climbing is always a hit!
We’ve introduced some new activities at El Monte too.
Box Hockey made by a winter volunteer.
Carpetball
Tetherball
And we divided the larger group into smaller units and did some initiative games.
PVC Golf, in which they have to walk toward a small basket while holding just the right tension on the ropes. Then they deposit the ball into the bucket. If they drop it, they have to start over.
In this next game, they have to support a tent pole on their fingers and lower it together, while keeping it level, all the way to the ground.
It’s not as easy as it looks. Usually in the first attempts, the pole keeps going up higher and they have to talk themselves through bringing it down together.
The debriefs after each of the different activities were very insightful and useful for connecting truth to life.
Of course any camp in Mexico isn’t complete without soccer. Pickup games are played any free moment.
Go Peter!
There were also the pinatas and the candy.
As you can see there were lots of activities and then some free time besides. It’s a great group of kids. We’re thankful to have our kids involved with such a great youth group that is focused on growth in Christ.
Posted by on 01/11
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01/28 at 02:17 PM
Seeing the carpet ball made me smile. My kids played that at Pine Lake and at our church for hours as did many other kids. We forget kids are kids. No matter if they speak the same language or live in a different country they all like to have fun and be together. It was wonderful seeing the youth at El Monte having fun just like our kids do. You are doing a wonderful job. Thank you for being obedient to Christ and serving in Mexico. I love viewing your website to see everything you are doing. Again, thank you, all of you.
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01/12 at 09:29 AM
Looks like fun!! Keep up the good work!