Retreat in Bolivia

My time at the retreat with the Mennonite Central Committee workers in Bolivia was challenging and enriching.  I facilitated the study time around the theme of  Tree Planted by Living Waters (God with us in all stages of spiritual development.)  The retreat took place at a beautiful place in the middle of growing cane fields.  I so enjoyed sharing with each one of the retreat participants as they prayed and considered their roots, trunk, branches, leaves and fruit.  The group was very diverse: From children to 65 years of age,  Bolivians who didn't speak English and Canadians and Americans who didn't speak Spanish,  Central Americans who spoke both, Mennonites and other denominations from Fundamentalists to Liberals, people who were beginning their ministry and people at the end of their ministry, people who had just arrived in Bolivia and people who had been there all their lives, married, single, separated, divorced and single mothers.  Each person unique and with so much to offer and to share about how God has been with them in each stage of their lives.