Wednesday, November 01, 2006

staff retreat

A couple of weeks ago World Relief Burundi hosted a joint staff retreat with our brothers and sisters from World Relief Congo. The retreat was at a conference center here in Bujumbura where we had a wonderful time building relationships, hearing from God's word on the subject of forgiveness, and discussing in break-out sessions how to practically apply the concepts of biblical forgiveness in our work at World Relief.

Here are some of my dear coworkers praising the Lord in song and dance...







Building relationships...


Concilie, Primitive, Jean, and Sarah



Claire and me



Samson, Vital, and Bruno


We spent an afternoon at Saga Resha, a favorite beach on Lake T an hour south of Buja. For many it was their first time...



Perot and Peres



Felicite and Joyce



Microfinance staff



Emmanuel and Elihud- the only two brave enough to swim!



All of us from the World Relief office in Bujumbura


And here is the entire group including WR Congo and WR Burundi...

6 comments:

Nan said...

Great pictures! What a sweet time of fellowship that sounds like.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful,Sara! It's so good to see you with your co-workers. We are looking forward to meeting some of them
Mom and Dad

Nate and Andrea said...

Fun, fun, fun!! Those microfinance people look a little shifty to me. ;)

Say hi to Pat for me if you happen see him while he's over there!

oregonfatts said...

Such great smiles all around, good stuff. Nice blog sara

Anonymous said...

Hey Sarah!! Great blog! Love those pictures. How do you get so many of them on there?? You are way more pro than I am.

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