CONNECT Christian Camp & Retreat Center

The team arrived safe and sound at Pastor Jesus' church! Things were good after a long day of travel and the team was greeted with pizza! yum! they quickly settled in and are ready to begin their experience here in Puerto Rico!

After having an introduction meeting and eating some Puerto Rican cuisine for dinner, the team went to a favorite local ice cream parlor and enjoyed unique flavors of ice cream such as corn, soursop, passion fruit, coconut, and tamarind all made in store! it was amazing!

Today was an amazing day! We started the day off by encountering a Puerto Rican church service. After Church pastor got us all Frappe's with flavors like Nutella, Oreo and Cheesecake. We then did some missions training in learning how to share our stories. After this we spent the rest of the afternoon doing preparations for VBS. The day finished off with a little basketball with local community members. It was a great day and we are excited to begin our VBS and work projects tomorrow!

The team had an amazing start doing VBS with the church. Since the morning they were excited and eager to see what God would do. They started with arts and crafts, sports and also work projects with the kids. In the afternoon they had a delicious lunch made specially for them. After that some of them went to visit hogar carino, the elderly home, to share time with them. They ended the day with a friendly basketball game, with more expectations to come in tomorrow's VBS.

With a new day ahead of the the team starts day 2 of ministry. They were excited to see what God was going to do next. They combined the teams to work in every area of the VBS from sports to arts and crafts to the work project fixing the fence of the church and getting to share with the kids through movies. With the evening coming the team did some affirmations and played basketball with the youth of the church. Great day for ministry.

The team had an adventure submerged in the activities with the kids. It was the last today of ministry and they really made it count. They played with the kids, did arts and crafts and also played at the court. God did amazing things uniting these two teams together. We ended the day having fellowship with the youth group of the church and having an amazing service.

The team had an amazing recreation day. After a hard week of ministry work, they were ready to have a good day of relaxation. They went to old San Juan where they saw the forts of Puerto Rico. After that they went to El Escambron beach to have some island fun. It was a great closing to a great week full of God.