Among other things team building is a goal of Training Camp. The last couple of days Team Guatemala has successfully completed many team excercises. Through these excercises we are learning to encourage and listen to each other, in order to prepare us to minister together in Guatemala. We are discovering our strengths and weaknesses and finding out what each of us brings to the team. It has been fun to watch the bond that is developing between the team.

 

Here is an inside look at a couple of the excercises we did yesterday.

 

Object: to figure out the correct random number order of the tires and place them on the wooden pole (toothpick)

 

in order to receive information or a clue on the correct number order we were asked to sing and dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller.

 

We ran out of time before we could complete the project, but we stayed positive and encouraging and still managed to have fun.

 

After a difficult morning excercise, we ended the day successfully by being one of the few teams to complete the Wilderness Experience. This involved our team being divided into 3 groups and separated. We had to find each other and our assigned guide to complete the exercise.  Once we found each other our guide handed us different clues which led us to the Promised Land. These included picking out three Laws, building a Tabernacle, sending out two spies and choosing the right spy to listen to and follow into the Promised Land. As we struggled to reach final decisions, we decided as a team to pray and trust God in all of our decisions.

Team Guatemala praying under our Tabernacle

 

This exercise showed our team our many gifts and a couple of things we could improve on as a team, and as we found ourselves in the Promised Land we were greeted with cold Flavored Ice, almost as precious as milk and honey in this hot Georgia heat.