De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

Here’s the link to the complete collection. It was a wonderful trip and the 3 other members of Team Win!, Andy (Rolo), James + Harry, were a credit to our school and to Liverpool. https://flic.kr/s/aHskUVBeN1

Easter Monday saw us having morning fun + games with 80+ children from the local parish in Larantuka. While we led the indoor activities (songs + dances inc. I am The Music Man, Macarena, Lord I Lift Your Name On High and arts + crafts), Bro. Andreas and a few of the 8 aspirants organised a football match outdoors with 30+ participants. This was followed by the return leg of the Aspirants FC vs. FIC/Team Win!, the latter made up of us 4 white-skinned, now sunburned English guys and the 5 local Brothers (French, Spanish + Indonesian). After a glorious victory for FIC/Team Win! 8-6 yesterday in the first leg, the Aspirants came out on top this afternoon 7-6, FIC/Team Win! winning on aggregate 14-13. See yesterday for a post first leg photo.

Following on from previous trips to Africa and the 2015 project working with pupils of our Brothers' schools in Haiti, this Easter (leaving on Friday) I will be taking two current Yr. 12 students and a former student now in his mid-twenties (Andrew Rowan) on a De La Mennais Brothers Educational Project trip to Indonesia (9 days) and Japan (4 days). Our objectives are to: • learn about the lives of people from another culture and learn more about ourselves through shared activ ities e.g. workshops, dialogue, recreation, sport, music, etc... many summer camp-style activities from primary school children lead by our young people themselves • open our hearts to respond to the human, spiritual and material needs of others • change our vision of the world • develop skills and help others to develop theirs • learn to look back over our experiences and be able to share them with others. We will be visiting Brothers' schools, working with their primary school children and o...