It is already time to leave Panama. 🙁 This month my team and another team on my squad have been staying at a YWAM base in Chiriqui Panama. We have had food cooked for us and bed to sleep in.
At this base they have DTS (discipleship training school) for People mostly from Central America. They also house Panamanian students live here so they can continue education past 6th grade. We have been doing a variety of ministries. We have been taking turns to stay at the base and prepare meals with the cook and clean.
Bible distribution: we will walk from house to house and offer prayer and a bible. People here are so grateful for this and love being prayed over. We got to witness a man begin to be healed and stood out of his wheel chair. I believe God changed his heart a lot that day.
We got to visit kids in a village and make crafts with them, play games sings songs and give little bible lesson. This was my favorite because being in a neighborhood filled with kids is one of my favorite things in life.
We got to visit a church that has a feeding program for kids an keep them entertained and visit orphanages.
We got to visit a nursing home and hang with the sweet old people. We painted the ladies nails and bowled and played cards with them men. This sweet lady kept singing a song to my friend Ana and it was so sweet to see. We sang a worship song in soonish and one of the ladies started singing it in English.
We painted a couple buildings at a local mechanic shop Called Mechanics with a mission. The man who started it is from America and he teaches people from Central America mechanical skills so they can go back and do that for a job.
We taught Bible studies and English classes at the base for the Hogar students. Having these kids on the base was awesome, they were so kind and fun.
The main ministry we did was visit children and their families at a cancer center. There were a lot fewer children and a lot of us but they got individual attention that was much needed and we got to bring encouragement to the moms who were living there with their kids. We all got a little emotional yesterday when we realized it was the last time we would see them.
It’s has been a very warm and welcoming month. I am sad to leave. We will be staying in Boston for an over night layover.:) it will be nice to step foot in USA for a bit. Then we head to Spain for a debrief before heading to our next country Morocco where we will be for about 43 days.
