scott and patsy

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Winter has Arrived...

Besides the retreats, speaking engagements, and advertising we've been doing for winter camps, we have had three important events in the past 2 months. Take a look at what we've been up to...

AFTERNOON FOR PARENTS

Who doesn't want 50% off of a camp for their children? These two mothers each won a discount for showing up to give us feedback on our past camp season. We are attempting to have more contact with the parents of our campers in order to provide follow up for the entire family.



QUEST BOARD RETREAT

A real blessing for our team, was our 2nd Annual Quest Board Retreat. We held it at a small hotel in our home town. It was an amazing time of development and training for our board. Thomas Schneider, from Word of Life Camp in Porto Alegre, came and shared his story of starting a camp from scratch in 1988. He gave us much encouragement and we will do well to follow in his footsteps, using his acquired wisdom to make solid decisions. Our guest speaker, Thomas, is using the orange jacket.



We were very pleased to have our board member's wives and children join us for the retreat.



Tiago Tormen (left) is Quest's president. Our board is young and is building confidence. Tiago, is one of our ex-staffers from Gramado, who has moved to Curitiba to continue his career as a pediatrician. Tiago met his wife, Carol, while staffing in Gramado. They have been a huge blessing for our team. Renan (right), worked full-time with us at Quest for just over a year. He and his wife, Raquel, have returned to Curitiba to direct their church's orphanage.



For Scott and I, it was wonderful just to sit and take in instead of being up front teaching! We enjoyed ourselves so much. Just to sit back and see God bringing this strong team together has been incredible.



FUNDRAISING BANQUET

On Friday, June 18th, 2010, Quest held their 2nd Annual fundraising banquet, which was so much fun! We had live instrumental music, great food and amazing decorations. We sold each plate for R$100, with a goal of raising R$10,000 here in Brazil in the month of June. This was a bold step for us and we were very pleased with the results. We have already raised around R$11,000 and several people are still fundraising for us even though the banquet is over! That's what friends are for, isn't it? It has been humbling to see so many people buying into the dream for Quest. Here are some pics of our banquet...

Our inexpensive and natural center pieces(it's nice to have a banana plantation next door!)



God has blessed us with a sister in Christ who supports us by catering our banquets for no cost. There were no complaints about her work!!!



We made up placemats with several interesting facts about Quest, including a crossword puzzle and a list of our goals acomplished in 2009.



We set up the decor as if they were arriving at a camp. They absolutely loved it! The theme of the night was "Abrindo Novas Trilhas", or "Opening New Trails". We put down some of our new platforms as a "trail".





We need your prayers as we continue pressing ahead into the vision God has given us. We have a very busy July and August ahead of us. Advertising in churches and schools, winter camp, board meetings and 3 retreats. Sometimes life seems overwhelming, but it is in those moments we realize that we are living beyond what we are capable of and only with God's strength is anything possible! When we are weak, HE IS STRONG! Praise Him!

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