The Different Week

Here in the YWAM base in Mendoza we had our annual Semana Diferente (Different Week)!
We invite people from LaValle Desert, a place where the indigenous Huarpe people live, to come experience something different, something special!

For several weeks prior we had been praying about this Different Week and we really wanted to know what God wanted to do. We began to understand that God wanted to show Himself in supernatural ways!


This year was a bit different, we had the most people we have ever had, there were about 800 people that came from the desert and then all of us from the base, from Puerto Rico, and many other volunteers who came to help! We ended with a gran total of about 1000 people! It was a great week full of hard work preparing before the event, then a week full of work loving on the people, providing their every need, organizing events, taking care of the 200 kids (3-13 yrs. old) and not to mention those of other age groups!

For 6 days we provided them with activities, great food, a huge swimming pool, outings to the mountains, movie theater, and many other exciting places, and to finish off the week, we have a very special Christmas dinner with presents for everyone!


The team from Puerto Rico came to do a medical operation. They spent the week giving free check-ups to everyone and providing medication when needed. It was such a blessing to have them because many of us got sick with a bad virus that the people from the desert had brought with them.

I am content to say that God showed Himself faithful and did things supernatural! This year the people truly experience a different week!