It's May and for a stinter that means project is on the way. Every summer students from across Canada spread out on 6 week missions trips, we call them projects both within Canada and around the world. For us here in Panama that means tonight we have 3 Canadian staff arriving and 17 students on Tuesday! Its a chaotic and exciting time but I know that our entire team is looking forward to having this fresh injection of manpower and excitement over the next 6 weeks. This upcoming week will be spent in orientation with the students, training them to minister cross culturally and preparing them to work in teams on the campuses within Panama City and Santiago, a city three hours from here. The next 4 weeks we'll be focusing on campus ministry with a large amount of getting out and sharing our faith on campus. From there we take 3 days off to rest and refocus and then we're off to the interior of the country. We'll spend 6 days working with families and showing the Jesus film in two villages that are isolated and completely different from Panama City. Its a interesting experience as the living conditions are anything but normal for us, but its so cool to see what God does during this time our lives and in the lives of those we come into contact with. From there it's 4 days of debrief and then home time! Somedays project seems like it'll go on forever but most of the time it flies by in a whirlwind of activities. I would ask that you be praying for our team and the new Canadian team especially over the next 6 weeks. Some initial prayer requests would be the following.... Please be praying that:
-the staff and students would have safe travel here to Panama
-the students would adjust to be in a foreign culture quickly
-our staff team would have wisdom to lead this project in a way that sees God glorified above all
-for translation and Spanish skills as the vast majority of the upcoming team doesn't speak spanish, we'll need Panamanian students to help us out with this!
Thank you so much for your prayer support! It means the world to our stint team and really is making a huge difference here in Panama! I'll keep you updated as we go! :D
thoughts on STINT in Panama... year one (07-08) and now year two (08-09)...
About Me
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- Just a little peek at what it's like to be living in Panama working in full time ministry with Campus for Christ Canada... or Vida Estudiantil as we call it down here!
Prayer Calendar 2009!
I'll update this as we go but for now here's some prayer requests over the next couple of months!
April
Please pray that this would be a month of equipping and refining for the students as we continue to evangelize and have a training summit. That they would passionately share their faith and be trained to reach and change their faculties and campuses.
May
CANADIAN PROJECT! Please pray that the team of Canadian students and staff arrive safely and dramatically change the campuses in Panama City, Santiago and David. I’ll keep you updated closer to the date!
June
Please pray as my team prepares to leave Panama. That the students here would not waver in their faith and that the movement would only grow and not diminish with our departure. And that we would transition back to life in Canada.
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