First Ever BBC Retreat

May 9-11 – the first ever BBC-wide retreat

After months in the planning stages, BBC held its very first BBC-wide retreat this past weekend.  A local believing family has a retreat center so Mark contacted him about bringing our folks up to the retreat center for a weekend away. We heard the following comments this weekend: “Why hasn’t BBC done this before?” “This is so great.” “This needs to be the first ANNUAL retreat.” We saw people sitting together chatting, connecting and reconnecting. We did fun activities like hiking the Great Wall and just relaxing.

What a joy to our hearts to be in our room just outside the gathering place and hear laughter, chatting, fellowship, and children. We had a real sense of G’s unity and love. It’s great to see so many come together in a way that we cannot do in this big city of busyness, work, life, and distractions. Two of our men spoke from the Scriptures on biblical manhood and womanhood: how G’s design for men and women at creation sets the stage for singleness and marriage; how no matter what stage we are in, the sole purpose of our life in that stage is to glorify G and reflect His image.

Enjoy the pictures. There are lots of them.

Entrance to the retreat center

Getting our room assignments

One of the young couples' bedroom

On the way to the Great Wall

Making homemade jaozi

Sunday Breakfast. We even had scrambled eggs, the dish in the middle of the table. Try eating scrambled eggs with chopsticks. :)

Our gracious hosts

Our group minus one family that had already left.