Team Retreat-1
Our team had a 4-day weekend retreat in Chiang Mai this past weekend. We stayed at a Christian Guesthouse called The Juniper Tree. I loved the homey, "campy" feel of the place. It was a sort of tropical Spruce Lake to me (I spent quite a few summers working at Spruce Lake Wilderness Camp in PA).
The team spent a fair amount of time in Bible study, prayer, and discussion about our work in Thailand. We also had time to simply relax, and one day we visited a famous wat called Doi Suthep, followed by a climb up part of a waterfall. (See part 2 for pictures of the wat and waterfall.)
It was a good time of refreshing, relating, and refocusing (how's that for a new "3 r's"?:).
Our team at present
I stayed in a room on the first floor of this building, right across from the dining room--how convenient!
Beautiful shrubs and flowers covered the grounds.
Raul and Dan giving the girls swing rides in the little playground
