Our first quarter of teaching at Faith Academy ended on October 13. Faith's one week October Break started on the 14th.
TEAM took the opportunity afforded by Faith's October break to have all of the TEAM missionaries in the Philippines get together for our annual conference. So, on the 15th, Laura and I (and three other missionary families) flew out of Manila to the island of Cebu, right in the middle of the Philippines. In Cebu, we met up with two other missionary families with TEAM. Then, after driving for a couple of hours north of the city, we arrived at our destination: a small resort on the north coast of the island of Cebu.
The scenery was beautiful, and we got a chance to relax and unwind, after a very hectic end of the first quarter. We definitely needed the time off from grading and planning and teaching for a little while. It wasn't purely fun and games.We spent part of each day in worship, learning, sharing about our various ministries, and other TEAM Philippines dialogue. However, there remained plenty of time for both fun and games, of various kinds.
Below are some pictures from the resort. Hope you enjoy them!
Oh, and as a side note, another benefit of this trip was that we were not in Manila when Typhoon Megi (aka Juan) hit the north edge of the Philippines. There wasn't much damage in Manila, but we were still happy to have not been here when it passed over.
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| The beach by our resort. It was about 200 feet from our cabana. |
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| The same beach as above, except during the sunset. So beautiful! |
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| This was a nice little wading pool. It was kinda cold, which was nice at times. |
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| These were the more expensive rooms. One of the families stayed in this part of the resort, but we did not. |
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| We stayed in one of these cabanas. It was nice, mostly, if you ignored all the ants that found their way in. |
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One of the evenings, we all played a game of Catch Phrase. Lots of fun!
Also good bonding time-- you learn a surprising amount about the other players during a game like that. |
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Dave and Kathy North, and Grace and Keith McCune.
Both couples are long-time TEAM missionaries. |
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We also played a few other games during the weekend, such as Settlers of Cataan.
The Persons (in the back) were playing Canasta. |
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| And after it was all over, we gathered for some final prayer, and some praise for our time together. |
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