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Hacienda El Refugio
Calacal, Ecuador
Hacienda El Refugio is a ministry
of Internaonal Teams and Youth World Internaonal.
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At the age of 12, Pablos life was marked forever through a powerful experience
the outdoors. Now 19, his lifes calling is to reach the young people of Ecuador an
Lan America through the mulplicaon of outdoor ministry programs.
There are 300,000,000 young people in Lan America, and yet youth ministry
severely undervalued and underdeveloped. Thousands of youth leaders a
disillusioned and discouraged. Millions of youth remain unreached. For over 1
years El RefugioITeams retreat center in Quitohas already witnessed the wav
of impact as lives are transformed and as a result churches are strengthene
through improved leadership and spiritually vibrant young people. Our hope is th
through the growth of outdoor ministry programs many more will experience th
blessing. Through them, a new generaon of leaders would be trained, ne
ministries launched, exisng ministries revitalized, and the Lan chur
strengthened and renewed.
TeamLeadership
LeadershipDevelopment
ProgramDevelopment
MinistryOversight
Lives and communities transformed by the power of God
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Hacienda El Refugio exists to facilitate a deeper relaonship with Jesus Christ through nature and outdoor
adventure.
Founded by Youth World in 1999, the catalyst for the ministry was the voiced need of Youth Leaders who de-
sired a place to get out of the city, a place where they could go and hear the sll, small voice of God. A 320-acre
property was purchased 40 minutes outside of Quito and several years were spent in development, renovang
old buildings and creang a funconing road and trail system.
In 2003, the program element of Hacienda El Refugio began to take shape and groups began to come out for 1-3
day retreats. The Retreat program grew rapidly over the next ve years, with the annual parcipant numbers
reaching close to 2000 parcipants. During this me, program elements expanded to include low ropes, high
ropes and orienteering.
In 2006, a program for Leadership Development was iniated with the purpose of introducing young Ecuadori-
ans to the possibility of outdoor ministry. With an increasing focus on mulplicaon of adventure ministry in
Lan America, Aire Libre, a vocaonal training for those desiring to pursue a call in this eld, was launched.
In 2012, programming expanded to include Adventure Camp, Alturas, Fronteras and a Lan American Adventure
ministry network.
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The Program Director is responsible for providing overall leadership for the program area of Hacienda El Refugio,
developing and maintaining the Program Team, Leaders in training, Programs and Methodologies and Program
Elements. The Program Director is also a key part of HERs leadership and reports to HER Director
Formal Bible Training
Formal Outdoor Leadership / Experienal Educaon Training
Love for, and understanding of, the value of outdoor ministries in communicang Jesus
Broad Knowledge of Outdoor Adventure Skills
Experience in Chrisan Ministry, including oversight of a ministry team
Demonstrated ability to think strategically and communicate vision
Demonstrated ability to care for team members
Demonstrated leadership in managing sta groups and major projects or iniaves
Ability to create and manage a budget
Ability to work with both Ecuadorian and Internaonal teams and individuals
An ability to communicate in Spanish and English
General
Meet regularly with HER Director
Be an acve parcipant in El Refugio Sta meengs and Youth World Team Meengs
Assist in creang, developing and implemenng the overall HER vision
Personally Incarnate the values of the ministry
Program Team
Lead the Program Team Facilitate Program Team meengs and communicaon, making sure that responsibilies are clear and
procedures are followed.
Oversee the work, days o and vacaon days of Program Team members and ensure that job funcons
are being carried out.
Carry out Annual Reviews and 6-month check-ins with all Program Team members
Monitor and invest in the spiritual, physical, emoonal and relaonal health of each member. When
health in any area is compromised, work with the Director to idenfy and address the issues and devise
a plan for restoring health to the individual and/or team.
Idenfy and draw out leadership skills and potenal in members of the Program Team
Create and Manage the Program Development budget
Work with Director to determine and ll program sta needs
Develop Leaders Create systems to recruit, train, and provide ongoing development of leaders in the eld of outdoor ad-
venture ministry locally
Oversee Facilitator program, Internship program and Aire Libre
Assist Director in creang and implemenng strategies to mulply outdoor adventure throughout Ecua-
dor and Lan America
Develop, Maintain and Oversee the Funconing of Programs and Elements Oversee the day-to-day execuon of retreat and training Programs in alignment with the vision
Develop programs including curriculum, methodologies, elements and people resources
Develop and Maintain Physical Program Elements
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EXPOSE DEVELOP
MULTIPLY
Adventure Camp
Customized Retreats(churches, schools, non-
profits, etc)
Backpacking*
OutdoorEducation**
CorporateTeambuilding*
Facilitators
Service Interns
(Alturas)
Leadership Interns
(Fronteras)*
Aire Libre
Outdoor Leadership
SchoolLatin American
Adventure
Network*
Ecuadorian
Camps *
Church Renewal*
* In early stages of devel-
opment, being piloted.
** To be developed
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Our leadership development strategy seeks
to oer a series of opportunies for young
people to get further exposed to outdoor
adventure ministry.
ALTURAS, which means elevaons, is
designed as a 10-week, adventure based
discipleship program with a focus on the
concept of service.
The core goals of the program are to:
Form Character
Develop Potenal
Discover Calling
This program began with one 10-week ses-
sion in September-November of 2012, we
envision expanding to an addional session
in the spring and eventually a short summersession, with 8-10 parcipants per session.
The FRONTERAS internship is the next
step in the leadership development cy-
cle, working at a deeper level with only 4
-6 parcipants over a period of 9
months. The focus of this experience is
squarely on leadership, spiritual for-maon and on adventure design. These
individuals will be given the tools and
empowered to create the transforming
environments for retreat groups. This
program, piloted in 2013-2014 with four
parcipants, remains to be developed
and strengthened.
The successful launch of these programs
bring the added benet of being able to
open our doors wider to school groupsand corporaons, who typically prefer to
come mid-week.
Outdoor Educaon programs targeng
elementary age children are an important
stepping stone in our long term goal of
developing outdoor leaders. There are
very few opportunies for urban children
to get out and experience nature, and
weve seen an increasing interest from
schools in Quito.
Corporate Team Building oers an oppor-
tunity of impacng a hard to reach demo-
graphic, and at the same me providing a
stream of income for helping to sustain
the ministry nancially. We are currently
one of the only venues in the Quito area
that could potenally oer this service.
DevelopingDeveloping
Programs
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Empowerment
Involve Someone Else
Teaching to Fish
Entrusng Responsibility to others
NatureConnecng to LIFE through the rhythm of retreat in nature
Inving people to a healthy rhythm of encountering God in nature
Enjoying and caring for Gods Creaon
Sta taking intenonal solo mes and sabbacals
RiskWhen comfort ends growth begins
Inving people to environments of perceived and real risk
Fail Forward/embracing failure as an opportunity for growth
Exposing ourselves to new ideas and experiences
Intenonality
Start with why Aim Small Miss Small
Designing customized experiences
Make it happen
Evaluate Everything/Always Debrief
Churchreally.
Developing meaningful and strategic relaonships with churches
Connecng people to churches
Creang trainings that will bless churches
Leading with quesons
Holisc TransformaonFacilitang authenc and comprehensive, Christ-centered, life change
Calling on and trusng God to work
Developing meaningful relaonships
Listening and looking for God
Seeing and Hearing People
Bringing Light
Planng Seeds of truth and renewal in
peoples hearts
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Identy in ChristIndividuals get their life from the core truth
that they are loved and created by a good God.
The consistent pracce of healthy disciplines for Christ-centered
holisc formaon.
Meaningful and signicant relaonships for mutual edicaon.
Targeng clearly dened results for personal growth and King-
dom impact.
A clear vision of my role in Gods Kingdom.
Hacienda El Refugio exists to facilitate a deeper relaonship with Jesus Christ
through nature and outdoor adventure. This is accomplished within the
framework of a 4-point strategy:
1. Idenfy with the Group
2. Create an Environment
3. Facilitate for Transformaon
4. Empower to Pursue Abundant Life
This is a powerful process that we have seen work over and over, regardless of
the group, age of the parcipants or their backgrounds. It is applied to every
individual or group that comes out, and it is also applied on a macro level to
groups such as youth-
at-
risk or interns. Ulmately, when you get peoplein a seng out of their comfort zone and challenge them, and then help them
to process the experience, amazing growth happens. We hope to see leaders
leading beer, deeper relaonships with Christ, churches renewed, and out-
door ministry mulplied.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, bring them into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to them.Then I will give them their
vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And they will sing there as in the days of their youth,
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All internaonal workers at Hacienda El Refugio are funded through personal support raising eorts. Here are some com-
mon quesons related to fundraising:
Why is it necessary to raise funds?
In general, adventure programming is expensive, and is not a big money maker. Now imagine bringing these incredible
experiences to a cultural demographic where 30% of the populaon lives below the poverty line, and where the minimum
wage is below $2 an hour. Fundraising is a major part of making this type of experience as accessible as possible.
Why is it awesome to raise funds?
Building faith through seeing Gods incredible provision. Involving way more people in what He is doing. Stewarding re-
sources to be a blessing to those with less. All. Around. Blessing.
How long does it take to raise funds?
For those who parcipate in the fundraising training oered through Internaonal Teams, recent averages indicate that
most are fully funded within 100 days.
What expenses are covered?
The typical budget for an internaonal worker will include everything from setup costs such as travel, furnishing a home
and purchasing a vehicle to ongoing expenses including rent, food and houshold, educaon, transportaon, communica-
ons, medical and life insurance, savings, rerement contribuons and discreonary funds. Typically a budget sample will
be provided to work from in creang your budget, which is submied to the Youth World Team Leader for approval.
Internaonal Teams is a mul-naonal organizaon that exists to see lives and
communies transformed by the power of God. There are over 1200 workers around
the world, working on over 200 teams.
Founded in 1994, Youth World exists to idenfy, teach and equip leaders to impact
young people and families to be disciples of Jesus Christ. Something that drives us is
the startling stasc that 95% of the worlds trained youth workers work in North
America, with only 5% of the worlds
Youth. As one of Youth Worlds 6 ministry areas, this mission permeates Hacienda El
Refugio. Developing Leaders who will impact youth throughout Lan America compels
us to go beyond being simply a tradional outdoor ministry or camp. Empowering a
mulplying movement of outdoor leaders runs through our veins.
Over 2.5 Million inhabit-Over 2.5 Million inhabit-
antsants
Roughly 50% under the ageRoughly 50% under the age
of 18of 18
95% Roman Catholic, 4%95% Roman Catholic, 4%
Protestant, 1% OtherProtestant, 1% Other
Quito, Ecuador
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1. Inial Contact
2. Applicaon to Internaonal Teams
3. Visit and Youth World Interview. We recommend a short visit of 1-2 weeks (for both applicant and
spouse) as an essenal piece of the decision-making process. We recognize moving to a dierent country
is a huge transion and our desire is to discern Gods voice as well as set people up for long term success.
4. Acceptanceand Job Descripon. If both Internaonal Teams and Youth World accept the applicaon, an
invitaon to join the team is extended along with a job descripon.
5. Fundraising. At this point an account can be opened with IT, well help you put together a budget for
approval, and then the fundraising process can begin.
6. Training. There are 3 training components that must be completed before coming to Ecuador. The rst
is a fundraising training, recommended as early on in the process as possible. The other 2 trainings
happen at IT headquarters in Elgin, IL. One is an IT orientaon (which also can happen earlier) and the
other is ITs main pre-eld training, a 4-week session at the headquarters.
7. Language Acquision. Language is such a huge part of a successful transion to overseas ministry. Youth
Worlds language requirement is that the new team members achieve an Advanced Low prociency
before beginning their role on the eld. We highly recommend at least two trimesters of language
training at the language instute in San Jose, Costa Rica or something comparable.
8. Onboarding. The Youth World onboarding process includes pre-eld tasks like acquiring a visa to enter
Ecuador, as well as in country paper-work, Youth World orientaons, cultural orientaons, drivers
licenses, housing setup, purchasing a vehicle, etc.
The Tree House at
Hacienda El Refugio.
This is a special
space, built in 2006.
The intenon was to
create an en-
channg, purely rela-
onal space, built
solely for the pur-
pose of reecon,
prayer and spiritual
formaon in a spec-
tacular natural
seng.
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Wed love to answer any quesons you may
have. If you are interested in exploring this with
us please contact Paul Reichert:
Email: [email protected]: paul.in.quito
Paul has served at Hacienda El Refugio since
2003 and as the Director since 2010. He is mar-
ried to Beth and they have 3 kids, Jack, Carleigh
and Tilghman.
Sunset from basecamp of Cayambe Volcano
hours before attempting to summit. (18889 ft.)