Week four of El Reto featured “The Banquet”, and the teams
came ready. This week the two
events outside the church were held at the nearby town of Las Pilas. First, the
students participated in a relay race, by passing a soaked sponge, in order to
fill a small bucket of water. The
students had a ton of fun, many of them opting to drench the friend behind instead
of carefully passing the sponge to them.
The students also enjoyed the cooler weather. As you can see in the photos, we were
dodging rain the entire afternoon and evening. One sight we always like to see during El Reto is some of
the younger kids taking an interest in all the activities. Here are some future El Reto
participants that I’m sure can’t wait until it is their turn!
Now it was time for the main event, “The Banquet”! The students just had a short sprint to
get to the designated area.
This event featured 11 prepared meals with different members
of each team racing to be the first to finish. The meals are homemade but nothing you would see on your typical
restaurant’s menu! This past
Saturday they had a “Zombie Sandwhich”, a sandwhich made with chicken gizzards
and lettuce, topped with BBQ sauce. “Eyes”, a simple course of three
hard-boiled eggs, “S.O.S”, octopus tentacle that was boiled, “A Herd of Dogs”,
three raw hot dogs with all the condiments which the students had to eat
without hands. And this was a just
a taste of the menu…
Are you hungry yet?
The captains selected volunteers from their team to
participate in the different rounds, each of them not knowing what would be
placed in front of them. A few
backed out completely, but with their teammates standing nearby and cheering
them on, most stayed strong and tried their best to finish their plate or
drink.
All of the participants were valiant and did a great
job. The last course was something
for the entire team to take part.
As the storm opened up right above us, teams hurried to finish a bowl of
marshmallows covered in honey.
With the rain pouring down, the staff loaded up tables and
supplies as quickly as possible and headed back to Centro Cristiano in
Cofradia. Not as dirty as The Walk last week, but just as wet, the students
packed the room upstairs for The Refuge.
Pastor Luis re-capped the night’s activities and shared a short message
from the Word. Time flies when you
are having fun! We are now on the backend
of El Reto 2016, with only two Saturdays left! I’ll speak for the rest of the Staff and all of the teams involved;
we can’t wait until week five!
Here is the video for week #4...
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