This year's finale featured guest speaker youth specialist
and author, Ernesto Ramirez, from Mexico City. It was one of the top closures we've had for EL RETO. He was very dynamic and spoke directly
to them. Many came forward for
prayer as he challenged them to choose truth and be someone that makes a
difference in this generation.
We enjoyed worship with Pedro Castellanos and his band from
Tepic including the drummer, Hernán Mercado, who has visited us many times.
Last August, we brought four bikes to raffle off. Many people were asking about buying
them, so we decided to sell two and keep two for the raffle. I also included a soccer ball. We had lots of fun with that.
Pastor Goyo's son, Goyo, proceeded with revealing the hidden
treasures and made it very suspenseful.
Three of the four were found and many teachable moments were
created. One that stood out was
that no one looked for the fourth treasure because someone from one of the
teams said he found it. Of course,
the lie worked and people chose to believe it. Thus, our theme, "Choose Truth" comes in handy
here. How many times do we believe
someone's testimony just because they say it's true? Also, of the three remaining, each one who found a
treasure had to choose an envelope.
On the outside was written, "You have chosen the truth" in the
code language we used this year. Apparently
no one knew what it said, but as they chose an envelope, they were told to
"choose truth." Only one
envelope contained the prize of being able to challenge the team who won by
points in one last game to be named the winner of EL RETO 2018. The other two envelopes taught us what
it says in Proverbs 14:12, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but
in the end, it leads to death."
We can strive all we want to be good people or join a certain religion
and it all may seem "right".
However, we need to make sure that what we believe is TRUTH. Otherwise, we will end up with an empty
envelope in the end.
Angel, the captain of the red team, was the one who chose
the "truth" envelope and won the opportunity to challenge the point
leaders in the final challenge.
Karo and her team (green) beat out Jesica's team (blue) by a
very narrow margin.
EL RETO FINAL was a series of questions by video in a
similar format to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. In the end, the green team (The Decided Ones) held off their opponents, the red team (The Warriors), and became the champions
of EL RETO 2018!
Thank you all for praying for us during this time of another
successful season of EL RETO!
There are so many things that we can learn from in this event and the
seed has been planted in the hearts of over 200 students!
Here is the final video of EL RETO 2018!!
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