El Refugio is the ministry that LIFT partners with in Ecuador. It is a part of Youth World, which is an extension of International Teams, a long-standing missions organization found in many corners of the world. Staff from El Refugio set up all the logistics of visiting and helping out the two churches in El Chaco and Oyacachi, both about a 3-hour drive over the mountains from the base at El Refugio. LIFT started a relationship with these churches five years ago and continues to build relationships with the leaders and people of each church.
LIFT is one of the groups that come to El Refugio to supply a lot of manpower (and womanpower) and resources to help with big projects that would normally take a lot of time to complete, but can be effectively done in just a few days with the many hands and high energy of the young physically fit students. These work projects improve their facilities and the tools of adventure education (such as the ropes course, the climbing wall, and the adventure mud race course) to better serve the many groups that come to the base.
People who spend time at El Refugio go through many custom-designed activities and challenges for them to learn to work together better as teams, to grow in character and their love and understanding of God. The people who come to El Refugio range from church groups or Christian programs from North America to young Christian adults from all over South and Central America, but mostly from the Quito region of Ecuador. More and more Ecuadorian corporate groups are also taking part in the team-building experiences at El Refugio because of its growing reputation as a leader of adventure education in Latin America. In 2013 El Refugio hosted the first "summit" meeting of many leaders in adventure education and wilderness camps throughout Latin America to bring together this network of ministries specializing in using the outdoors as a tool to bring the gospel to people. It was to bring unity, share ideas, increase understanding, and provide vision for these leaders from the many different countries as this type of ministry grows and progresses.
El Refugio continues to lead the way in Latin America with using adventure education as a powerful tool in Christian ministry. To learn more about the multi-faceted ministry of El Refugio check out the website:
http://www.haciendaelrefugio.com/
Also to get a sneak preview of the upcoming 5K adventure mud race, "Todo Lodo" watch this video trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0KRnGrbgU
LIFT is one of the groups that come to El Refugio to supply a lot of manpower (and womanpower) and resources to help with big projects that would normally take a lot of time to complete, but can be effectively done in just a few days with the many hands and high energy of the young physically fit students. These work projects improve their facilities and the tools of adventure education (such as the ropes course, the climbing wall, and the adventure mud race course) to better serve the many groups that come to the base.
People who spend time at El Refugio go through many custom-designed activities and challenges for them to learn to work together better as teams, to grow in character and their love and understanding of God. The people who come to El Refugio range from church groups or Christian programs from North America to young Christian adults from all over South and Central America, but mostly from the Quito region of Ecuador. More and more Ecuadorian corporate groups are also taking part in the team-building experiences at El Refugio because of its growing reputation as a leader of adventure education in Latin America. In 2013 El Refugio hosted the first "summit" meeting of many leaders in adventure education and wilderness camps throughout Latin America to bring together this network of ministries specializing in using the outdoors as a tool to bring the gospel to people. It was to bring unity, share ideas, increase understanding, and provide vision for these leaders from the many different countries as this type of ministry grows and progresses.
El Refugio continues to lead the way in Latin America with using adventure education as a powerful tool in Christian ministry. To learn more about the multi-faceted ministry of El Refugio check out the website:
http://www.haciendaelrefugio.com/
Also to get a sneak preview of the upcoming 5K adventure mud race, "Todo Lodo" watch this video trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0KRnGrbgU
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