Craig made his first trip out of North America for 10 days at the end of March. I was the speaker for BCM Peru's 2014 Missionary Retreat which was attended by 37 missionaries serving in both the cities and jungles of Peru. I presented a seminar on personalities (God designs) and spiritual gifts (God assigns) which focused on avoiding and resolving conflict in ministry. The challenging material developed by Uniquely You Ministries was enthusiastically embraced by this intense team that reaches children through camps and campaigns and develops churches throughout the country. After discovering our gifts and understanding ourselves, we compared our graphs to look for potential areas of both strength and conflict. Pray for their leadership as they seek to be a grace-based ministry. Each day all the missionaries along with IBYM students play futball (soccer) at 5:00 PM. I joined in for one game before injuring my hamstring. After the retreat, we all enjoyed a 3 hour bus tour of Lima and a meal at, of all places, Pizza Hut.

Despite the trip to Peru, the ministry at Streamside continues. After a very busy winter retreat season (1255 guests and 5560 meals) which included 77 for Streamside's Winter Blast, we are focusing our attention on building up our spring and fall retreat usage. Through a new relationship with Retreat Central, we are aggressively reaching out to new potential retreat groups, offering them a free night in the Log Cabin as an incentive to take a look at Streamside. In the fall, we hope to introduce an all season tube slide called the "Turbo Tunnel" as a warm weather alternative to snow tubing. Pray that we will be able to restore a vibrant conference and retreat season that God uses as a ministry tool to develop churches.