Youth Retreat

By Katie

Recently youth from all over Honduras gathered at a church camp in the mountains just outside of Tegucigalpa for the national youth retreat. It was a weekend of new experiences for many youth, some of whom had never been to the city before.

The sessions started with Ana Joya, who works for CRWRC, leading a session called “To love is to wait”. Ana did an excellent job speaking to the youth about this topic.

She started out with group work, which is not something commonly done in the rural areas outside of Tegucigalpa. It was a great opportunity for the youth to have their voice heard and to develop teamwork skills. To finish the session, Matt and I gave our testimony about our dating relationship and how God guided us through that time of our lives.


On Friday night, we had the ever-popular Honduran tradition: Open Mic Night. Here’s a video of a couple of guys from Olancho singing a ranchero song, a Honduran country song. The crowd is going nuts because they love it.



Some youth from the city had entirely different presentations for open mic night. Here’s a group that made a skit about how only Christ leads to salvation, not other lifestyles like rock n’ roll, goth, etc.


There was one last thing you thought you’d never see in Honduras: A little Christian Reformed *bling*bling*:



It was a great opportunity for the students to get together and push their limits of comfort, expand their circle of friends to include people all over the country, and to challenge their hearts and minds to live more fully for Jesus Christ.