Panama!

Yesterday we arrived in Panama around 3 am. After a day of rest and orientation at the YWAM base here, we found out part of our schedule for the next month. Tomorrow we will take a 1 hour drive and then 1 hour canoe ride up a river to San Juan, where one of the indigenous tribes is located. We will be with them for 8 days and be doing a variety of ministry with the adults and kids.

This morning we had our first official ministry of our outreach-we went to a local neighborhood and went door to door, inviting people to come watch a short presentation. We met back up in a field and had probably 20 kids and a few adults come along. The presentation was really simple, we just introduced ourselves and had a couple activities. We performed two different dramas, which the kids loved, and then taught a few children´s songs. It was great to see the kids laughing and singing along with us. Most of the kids were 5-8 years old, and on their way to school so they were all dressed in uniforms with little backpacks. So cute. I got some pictures but since I didn´t bring my laptop I think I´ll have to wait on posting pictures until the end of the month at least.

Until tomorrow morning we are staying with the YWAM base here. There is another DTS going on right now, and they leave for Argentina in a couple weeks for outreach. It´s neat to meet more people experiencing the same sort of things we are...and they have a very wide range of cultures, even more so than us: a few from the states, Panama, Haiti, Netherlands, and some from the indigenous tribes here. They prayed for us this morning and it was so cool- I think I counted 6 different languages praying over us. Wow.