january prayer note
Dear Friends, As I mentioned in my quick e-mail earlier this week, our training camp in Nicaragua went incredibly well. Over the course of two 4-day camps we had almost 200 leaders and leaders-in-training from Nicaragua there, plus another 25+ leaders who came to be trained from Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. When we asked for feedback on what they had learned, the response was incredible. Many leaders talked about how the camp had refreshed them, renewed their faith, clarified their call, and better prepared them to work with teens in their neighborhoods. In short, it was a great place to see how God is working in the lives of teens and leaders throughout Central America. One of our visitors was Josue Ortiz who I met last month in Monclova, Mexico and who is hoping to start Young Life ministry there soon. I asked him what he had thought of the training and he said one of his biggest problems was that he had brought along a Mexican Sombrero ...