Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Team Retreat in Spain

Thomas and Anja are all smiles... why? Well, this August we had a most refreshing team retreat week on the coast of Spain, full of planning, workshops led by each other, vision-sharing, and Bible study. We also prayed over Vera, who will be moving to Hamburg this September in north Germany, to start a new Connexxion ministry.
The sense of community was a blessing-- cooking meals together, sharing a morning coffee, singing in worship and playing with Thomas and Anja's boys. A total of 9 adults & 2 small kids.
It was quite intense, actually, with days of seminars and meetings--
and then we worked in a few breaks to take advantage of the beach.
We were blessed with a chance to reflect on the year, trade ideas with one another on reaching the campuses, think about plans for expansion, bring favorite books to share, as well as to review our personality traits (through 2 personality tests we'd done). It was cool for our staff to get to know Hendrik and Maggie, too, who will be leading the work in Sevilla now that I've moved (they'd already flown out when we took the photo below). We also had a friend join us, who works in Madrid with university students.
A major project that we're working on is our upcoming Connexxion Konferenz (German spelling!), October 28-30th in Braunschweig, Germany. Wanna join us??!! We'll enjoy 2 & 1/2 days of practical workshops, main sessions, networking & coffee.... all around our main principles & methods learned over the past 10 years of working with post-modern university students in 2 nations in Europe.

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