Camp Committee & Agua Potable Meetings

I just wanted to let you all know how the meetings went over the weekend.  My meeting on Saturday with the Camp Leadership Committee went pretty well with a lot of decisions that will be helpful for the camp going forward.  Though it is true that we had one topic that was especially difficult to deal with and will be continuing to deal with it.
For reasons of confidentiality, I am not going to give any details of the issue, but just ask that you lift up our Committee in prayer as we figure out the best course of action.  I cherish your prayers for this.

The meeting yesterday, Sunday, was with the neighboring community and the Agua Potable (“Fresh Water”) project.  Basically, we were presenting the results from our visit with the organization here in Quito that we had a couple of weeks ago.  In the end, we were presenting two options.  One: to allow the organization to continue with their project and wait and see (and pray!) that they get it completed in a timely fashion.  Two: to continue with doing the project ourselves on our own.  In the end, the community made what I thought was a good decision in deciding to wait a month to decide.  Basically, we need to get the final permission from the local municipality to do the project on our own, so they decided to wait a month until we know about the approval of that permission and we can have more updated information from the organization here in Quito to be able to see how they are progressing.  So, basically, the decision was to wait until we have all the information that we can possibly have before making a decision.  I think it is a good course of action for us to take.

The Town Hall Meeting in the small village (Santa Marianita de Jesus) that is nearby the Camp where we discussed the Agua Potable project.

The Rocha Family had a new addition to the family while I was there. It was pretty cool!