early Saturday morning

beautiful river to wake up to!

Vladi...almost awake

poor Géssica!

This girl and her brother had to leave after lunch Sat., to sing at a dance party. They stayed up all night so they could return Sunday for the final part of the retreat.

Andressa

It's not "that" early, Andresa!

Luciano the clown

Hard to find him with a serious expression! Usually it's with his eyelids turned inside out, or something similar

Devotions time #1

Individual devotions are an important part

Team devotions

Each team met to have collective devotions and talk about what they studied.

Individual devotions #2

Individual devotions #3

What a view for devotions!

Lovely setting for seeking God's face early in the morning

Team devotions #2

Team devotions #3

Betina, Marilia, Henrique

Meet some of the believing teens

Fernando and Luciano

More believing teens

Group study

Vladi spent long hours preparing for these studies.

Cowboy Vladi

Vladi got to use his cowboy hat, finally!

Food...naturally!

Cleanup...naturally!

These kids were GREAT on doing things without anyone even asking.

After lunch laughter

Luciano was doing imitations of famous persons...Brazilian of course

1st Team

"Angels of the Ascension"

2nd Team

"The Seven Horsemen" (from the 4 horsemen in Revelation)

3rd Team

"Messengers of God" (mostly good angels, except for one that represented the Angel of Death)

Music time

Prayer time

Dyan

Another clown (pronounced Die-un). Note the color of those eyes!

Luciano and "thank you" card

All of the bread and part of the other food was donated by a believer in Chapeco. Another miracle story...

Maria Lúcia and João

Mary-Lucy and handicapped cousin John.

Yes, there are fish here!

No, they are not very big!