MesoAmerica Retreat

Whew! We are finally on the tail end of an extremely busy travel time for the first half of January. After we celebrated the New Year, we headed off to Managua on January 6th for a 4-day retreat with all the MCC volunteers in Central America (around 70 in all), called the MesoAmerica retreat. This retreat happens every 2 years and is hosted by a different Central American country each time. Nicaragua was responsible for the logistics, and the Mexico MCC team was responsible for the retreat sessions.

I (Colleen) was responsible for the Children's Programming, along with Issela (Nicaraguan who works in the MCC office in Managua). There were 12 children in all, ages 2-7. Overall, the children seemed to have a good time. I was only able to attend one of the sessions due to handling details of the program, but I was blessed to serve other parents in this capacity. We also enjoyed a few rare moments catching up with other MCCers with whom we had met in orientation. Unfortunately, my camera battery died after taking only 3 pictures, so the below is all I have to offer over 4 days.


(from L to R: Matthew, SALTer on our team, Issela, and David, Nicaraguan on our team who works with churches throughout Nicaragua)

(from L to R: unknown fellow MCCer, Greta and Rachelle, both SALTers on our team)

At the end, we were fairly exhausted, but were glad to see and hear what other MCCers are doing throughout Central America.