Missionary Retreat - El Salvador

Dear Family and Friends,

Our latest adventure was a trip to El Salvador to attend a missionary retreat.

It was a mixture of work and play and a great time to be with missionary friends from the entire region and also to spend a little quality time with the family.

The retreat was held at a resort on the beach in El Salvador. The views were beautiful, but it wasn’t the kind of beach you would swim at. The waves were held back by a long line of boulders and the sand was a dirty brown. The kids found lots of crabs and other interesting creatures in the water and beach. The pools were great and Kayley enjoyed swimming with her friends and Joshua enjoyed playing water polo until his legs hurt from running in the water.

The mornings and evenings were reserved for meetings and trainings, although the parents of smaller kids took turns watching them on the beach and at the pool. It was incredibly HOT weather and the conference rooms were incredibly COLD so we could never quite decide which was better.

Of course the biggest blessing was seeing all our friends. There were nearly 70 people at our evening services. The missionaries are from all the countries in the MAC region (Mexico to Panama) as well as missionaries from Peru, Puerto Rico, Argentina, England and of course the good ole USA.

All of the missionary kids from the MAC Region.
They had a ball together! Kayley, front right and Joshua, back row in center.

Abby Slingerland, Kayley and Paige Buell in the back.

Kayley celebrated her 10^th Birthday while in El Salvador. It was wonderful to hear 50 people singing just for her and to pray over her that God would bless her in this 10^th year of her life. Everyone watched the kids take turns hitting the piñata and Kayley had the honor of breaking it open. It was great fun. Something that she will remember for years to come.

We returned home on Sunday with one sick child: Joshua. Today is Wednesday and Joshua has finally returned to school just in time to study for final exams in a week and a half. It is hard to believe it is May already. The exciting thing is that we have a team arriving next week to work here in Costa Rica Central. It will be a blessing to see Pastor Casey and Rhonda Shorr who were our pastors in Tennessee. They are bringing a team from their church in West Virginia. It will be a good time to visit and work together.

God bless your week! We’ll blog again soon!

The Webb Family