Headin' to the hills

The staff of YWAM Arua took a much-needed break this last week and headed to Biku Retreat Center in Paidha, 2 hours south of Arua.

It rained all morning as we drove up into the hills, which made the journey quite terrifying as our vehicles fish-tailed back and forth on the muddy murram roads.







We co-opted some of the Colorado DTS team that are here on outreach to come lead worship for us, so it was a huge blessing to have Brianne, Joseph and Derek singing, strumming, and drumming for us.


























We were also honored to have Les Hall, another YWAMer from Colorado Springs, speaking to us and encouraging us in God's Word. It was the first time someone came from outside our base just to speak into our lives, and it was a big blessing to us.







Thank you so much, Les!!! We love you!









The rest of the time we enjoyed various team building activities, lots of good food, energetic dancing around the campfire (and s'mores!!) and quality time with God and each other.

Lowering a stick to the ground...it's much harder than it looks!

It was pretty cold the first two days, and our team members came up with some interesting head gear to keep themselves warm.












The other method of warming up was lots of singing and dancing.














Thank you, God, for special times like these of fun, friends and refreshment. We needed that!