Pintué

In 2 more hours, students will enter the El Oasis house with bags packed and sleeping bags in hand, ready to set off for a weekend retreat.  It has been an incredible semester so far.  I hope that you have been able to receive my email updates.  If not please let me know.   One of our biggest events that we do each semester is a retreat with all of the community of El Oasis.  Tonight we will be heading about an hour and a half away to a retreat center in a town called Pintué.  As of right now we are going as a group of 86 people!  Many of them are new students.  One young lady came for the first time to a Bible Study last night, invited by a friend, and is going to be going with us on the retreat!

This is our Retreat of the Sexes.  Each year we invite a speaker to speak to the students about sexuality and relationships.  Never an easy topic, but a much needed topic to address with college students.  Throughout the weekend we will have different activities to create competitions between the sexes, like a girls vs. guys soccer game, where the guys play on one leg.  It is a ton of fun and the students are really competitive which makes it interesting.  I took this picture above, this morning when the three taxis filled with groceries arrived at the house.  It takes a lot of food to feed 86 people for a weekend.   God has already begun to provide for a new van to be able make these trips easier.  More info on that project HERE.

 

Please join us in prayer for this weekend.

  • For the students that are on the fence about coming to be able to go.
  • For God to speak through Cecilia who is going to give the message.
  • For two students, Pipe and Eduardo, that are going to be baptized on Sunday morning (pictures below).
  • For the students to make commitments to sexual purity, to receive healing, to open up about abuses, to grow closer as a community, to come to know Jesus as their savior.

Eduardo (far left) will be baptized on Sunday!  He organized a Saturday for us to hike up one of the hills in Santiago, where I took this photo.

Pipe, on the left practicing his English with a Café a lo Gringo game,  will also be baptized on Sunday!