The school year has officially started at Alliance Academy and our new CSO (Christian Service Outreach) group with the high schoolers is up and going! Once again we have a great group of students. We enjoyed a overnight retreat at the Papallacta Guest House last weekend.
(The Papallacta Guest House is owned by HCJB and is located about 2 hours from Quito over the continental divide at their hydro-electric plant high in the mountains - a beautiful place to get away from the stress of the city!)
During the retreat we were able to get to know our students better and spend some time planning and organizing for this year. One of our leaders, Paul, provided some great fun with "team building games" - I'll let you try to figure out what they were doing from the photos!
We also had our first Kids Club of the school year at the dump yesterday. The story was on Creation and we were very proud of the way the high schoolers pitched right in and told the story, taught the memory verse, sang songs and did the craft. Our spirits weren't hampered too much by the heavy rain (rainy season has started in Quito!) and the lower attendance (due to the rain)! The children were thrilled to see the high schoolers again and it was great time together!
It's interesting to note that we have 7 nationalities represented in our group of high schoolers - the students hail from the US, Ecuador, Japan, China, Korea, Columbia, and Germany! It makes for quite the international group!
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