On Saturday, students had the opportunity to serve one of the local churches in the area by helping them fix up their retreat center. The church is called Prosperidad and each week they let us use their building for a service on Wednesday nights called Encuentro. The retreat center is called Los Naranjos and is a hour and a half train ride out of the city. Prosperidad, along with four other churches, bought the old military base years ago and have slowly been improving it and expanding it as a retreat center.
Our job for the day was to repaint and clean one of the apartments.
Emily, Kat, and Liz jumped on the chance to serve.
The owners treated us to a nice lunch, served camp style.
After lunch we enjoyed a nice walk along the river to the waterfall. The cool part about this was that normally it is not much of a waterfall, but because of all the recent rain, the river is stronger than ever.
The finished product!
The couple who ran the camp were very grateful for the help and the students enjoyed the change of scenery from the city for a day. They invited us back to come and help out or just enjoy the camp anytime.
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