Part 2: What I learned in the IFI Argentina (2011)

Karina Echavarria de Zara from Marcos Juarez, Argentina

Karina serves as a pastor and has traveled through-out Argentina and Brazil ministering in song, she shares a bit of what she learned.

I was welcomed with games

I was taught with opportunities to practice what I was learning.

I was accompanied in love.

I discovered God’s design in community.

I was prompted to take a “leap of faith” (really a trust fall).

I was oriented with the teacher’s guides.

I recognized my need to grow through supervised practices.

The evaluation sounded like a sweet melody.

My perspective on God and His heart’s concern has been renewed.

This IFI has marked in me a BEFORE and AFTER.

Beatriz Bornschein Alves de Souza, Brazil

Beatriz recently left a 15-year career of teaching speech therapy at a University in Brazil to join her husband serving full-time in CCI Brazil in the training department. We found we clicked very well since we both do training for CCI.

As I sat one day during my quiet time, facing the mountain of Ongamira, I dedicated my life to be used by God in the ministry of camping. Glory to God!

I have learned that there is another way of doing things. I can change and better impact lives for Jesus in my country-Brazil.

I have learned to have a different perspective of Christian camping—and that I can, with God’s help, have a passion for it—a passion for the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18).

During this IFI, God has touched my life and I could get rid of things that were keeping me from being fully used by God. I will carry in my “backpack” only what I can carry and I will not walk alone. I feel equipped with some important and useful tools.