The weekend of February 17-19, our family went on a retreat with other LAM missionaries in Costa Rica and some people from the home office in Miami. It was a great weekend of relaxing and meeting other missionaries we didn't know before. Most couples with LAM are a whole lot older than us and very few had young children. However, LAM thought it was important to have something special for our kids to do so the parents could rest. A children's church team of 6 from Pennsylvania flew in to have an extreme vbs-type program every minute of the weekend. What a great time for us adults to relax while our kids had a blast! It was so special and meant so much to us for our kids to have Bible stories and songs in English and to have people pour their lives into them. They even had special gift bags for each kid that was unique to each one. We filled out a form about our children about a month ago, and a person in their church was assigned one kid to buy things for. Emma and Jack were blown away when they saw Angry Birds stickers, balloons, baseball things, Blow Pops, a purse, jump rope and many other special things just for them. They said it was the best weekend ever. We loved having time to get to know everyone in the LAM family and their ministries.
View from the retreat center. It was only about a 20 minute drive from our house, but took 2 hours to get there because of Friday afternoon traffic.
A bunch of "old" LAM missionaries :)
Hello Gault's...they're not old :)...love that they live around the corner from us
Emma and me outside the children's church room
A special world yo-yo they were each given
Children's pastor Terry Allison - his team did an excellent job!
Bible story time
Craft time
Slip and slide with baby shampoo
They loved it!
Traditional soccer game...young & old guys & girls out there
I had to include a lot of pictures of Will playing soccer. He's never played before and just figured the rules are probably similar to basketball and went with it. He did such a great job!
Will vs. Noah...getting a cramp...teasing a young guy
He was a whole lot slower getting up than he used to be. I drugged him with Tylenol for days after this game.
This is Bob. He is 75. He is the grandaddy of christian camping ministry. He was the goalie against Will. Will never got the ball past him!
The soccer group
