Wow...fast first day. We met with our missionary, Steven and his family and learned a little about the Panamanian culture. We went to the Canal and saw that big thing and Larry and Jeff got to share Christ with a guy who worked there.
Today, we meet with the church at El Dorado ("Gayly bedite, a gallant knight, in sunshine and shadow"....Google it) and we'll look at what we're doing for the next couple of days. We've got many possible leads on people that we can hook up with to support and send teams to, and today, we'll be meeting many of these folks and hoping that the "possible" turns to "positive". We also are meeting at a Chinese-Panamanian school (high schoolers, I think...found that out on the bus ride down and a little more detail yesterday...we're scrambling to come up with stuff to do a bit, because they have us scheduled to meet with them for a program for like 2 hours...we're trying to adjust that, especially since this trip was more exploratory, i.e. we didn't know to plan a 2 hour program for high schoolers, yikes!...but God is in control).
There is some church planting going on, but I'm also seeing do to restructuring, the IMB is pulling out a lot of teams that work with the Panamanian culture here over the next two years, so it's a good time for us to be getting here, before they leave (that's Panamanian people, not working with our people group, the Chinese here)...so the missionary effort in this area will be decreasing all over...sad, but God...still in control..
Talk to you more tomorrow...got to go.
P.S. Also heard the Mavs beat the Lakers on Monday...Go Mavs! ;)
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