So a group of us woke up at 5 am to watch the sun come up over the ocean, and it was absolutely beautiful! I am always amazed at the show our Creator so lovingly puts on for display every single morning!

Sorry this took so long to get posted, the last couple of weeks have been nuts but such a blast! Yesterday (saturday) I coordinated a training day for the canadian and panamanian students. It was awesome to see so many of them come to be trained and equipped to go out, sharing their faith and developing their relationship with God. So many things have been happening in the lives of the students and its been amazing to see how God continues to work in the lives of everyone that we come into contact with. Eric, the faculty leader for the architecture faculty has connected us with some of the other leaders on campus in an effort to put together a leadership lunch next week. I had the opportunity to meet with a guy named Fidel from the economics faculty. My friend Jon and I had lunch with him last week and got to share the gospel with him. It was awesome to see how he was thinking his way through it and really taking the time to understand what we were telling him. He prayed to recieve Christ right there and it was so encouraging and exciting to see.

I think that one of the major things I have been learning this trip is took take every opportunity to share the gospel when I am presented with one. Thursday, I had a break for about half an hour and was planning on going to work on a session that I had to present on Saturday. Eric pulled me over to introduce me to a group of his friends and we got talking about nothing in particular. All of a sudden I had a thought and whipped out the 4 Spiritual Laws booklets that we use to present the gospel. None of them had ever seen it so we went through it together and the entire group of 5 prayed to recieve Christ. It was nuts you guys! Nothing planned and I was heading to do something completely different, but I believe that its moments like those that God has planned for us to step out in faith and live a life worthy of the calling that he has placed on our lives.

Tuesday night in all-team training, we put together a list of mature Christians and new believers in preparation to pass all of our contacts over to the Panamanian staff. There were over 100 contacts of mature Christians we had been meeting with to do discipleship and vision casting and probably over 150 new Christians, but that statistic will be way higher than that now. My friend Eryn commmented that we were handing them over a Crusade (for Christ), and she was totally correct. We came to Panama to start a movement by turning lost students into Christ centered laborers, and we have seen this prayer answered in so many ways. From scratch we started, and at times it was scary to think that maybe everything we had worked on would end once we left. But, the more and more that I prayed about, the more I relaized that it is so much out of my control. God, I believe with all my heart, knows the specific plans for each and every student on the university campus here and at home. He has big plans for all of us and I'm starting to see that becoming revealed in my life.

There is so much I want to tell you all, but I think those are the highlights. I know that for some of you reading this, this might not make complete sense. But, I've been learning over the last weeks that as a Christian, God commands us to go and make discples, by giving us the Great Comission. So many students here ask us whether we have to be sharing our faith or why we came. I think that we've all come to the conclusion, I know that I have, that this is something that I want to do. The greatest thing I can do for those around me to show them that I love them is to share the love of Christ with them. He has great and loving plans for each of our lives, we are seperated from him through our sin and sinful nature BUT because he loves us so much, he paid the price with sending his only son Jesus Christ to die for those sins. Think about it, a god that loves us that much. I still can't even begin to comprehend this love, but as I sat by the ocean this morning watching the sun come up, I was reminded how special and how precious I am to my heavenly Father.

Well... if you made it this far, thanks so much for me keeping me in your thoughts and prayers. We have 4 more days on campus and if you're praying, pray that I can push hard until the end. I love you all so much and I will see you in less than 3 weeks, craziness I tell you!