Mitchell Christian School

Hello! Erik and Josué are ready for this exciting week of service God has in store for us! Let's  pray for them as they and the team go on the very first PPM mission trip in Panama.

Thank God we landed safe and sound and now we're heading to Llano Tugrí, where the church is located. We pray this week God is going to transform lives and and lead our hearts.

After a long drive and a stop for resting, we finally made to Llano Tugrí, where Pastors welcomed us joyfully singing and showing us a bit of their dialect Ngöbe-Bugle!

We went to deliver the groceries, get to know people from Tugrí and to pray over them as they welcomed us to their beautiful  reservation for the first time!

We might be from different countries, but we're all sons and daughters of the same God; we share the same passion and the same joy for the Lord.

For the first day of construction we started by digging the holes for the posts that will hold the fence of the church. God's so amazing that we almost finished with all the holes in one single afternoon!

We had service on a Monday night, but it was a special service because they gather on Sundays normally and because we were where the new building will be some day in the future!

We started the day of ministry by praying so God would multiply the food and be a physical and spiritual blessing for the families we were going to visit today. 

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

The triangular building you can see far away is the Church!

We were able to finish digging the holes for the fence posts during the morning so the locals could put them on and start welding the fence. 

What a privilege it is to know we can be God's hands and feet for a week in Panama! Please continue praying for these bags and these families.

In order to finish the fence we needed to pull it while one of the locals welded it to the posts, and thank God we had enough time to finish it!

We finished the fence with the locals. We are happy God allowed us to be part of this church's growth.

We had one more morning of ministry, and we got to dig and level half of the full extension of the future building, which was a great advance for only having only 4 days of ministry. What an honor was to be able to serve this church this week!

Honoring the local pastors is always one of our priorities, so we try to make them feel listened and cared about.

Seeing the locals breaking barriers and grabbing us to hug us and tell us see you later warms our hearts so much!

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! Psalms 133:1