Review of Santa Cruz

I got back a few days ago from Santa Cruz...it was a fantastic time with the youth council there. It's a new group of leaders and they're great to work with; I love their initiative. I was able to start the teen research project there and visited 4 different churched including a combined youth service on Saturday of the Southern region of the city. On the last night I did a workshop that involved both teen leaders as well as other who are interested in working with this ministry regarding the Vida Joven work and some general information regarding working with teens, leadership, etc. They're also very excited about the online youth leader training program, Horizons, that will be starting here in Bolivia later on in the year. I returned to Tarija very excited and tired :) I'll be spending the full month of May in Santa Cruz working with the churches and youth leaders in order to launch the Vida Joven teen ministry. I also fully admit that winter will be beginning here so that means that it'll be a bit cooler (I thought Tarija was hot...it's nothing compared to Santa Cruz with it's humidity).

Thanks so much for your prayers!

'til next time,
rebecca