It´s my turn on crutches. When we were leaving the island (Bocas) on Friday morning I slipped and twisted my ankle. My personal diagnosis is a sprain, so I just bought some crutches and didn´t bother with a doctor visit.. I´m hoping by staying off of it I´ll heal quickly.
While in Bocas del Toro we did some mini-VBS programs at some schools and it was GREAT! I enjoyed those very much. Thanks to Robin Marass training me in puppets when I was younger, we did puppet skits of decent quality :) We also showed the movie "The Hope" in Bocas. It is an overview of God´s plan for man throughout the whole Bible. We had good response from the few people who showed up. Good questions, quality conversations, and the next day we baptized a young man who came to the movie. He was already attending a church, but I and another team member talked with him and saw a sincere committment to Christ, After watching the movie and talking, he wanted to be baptized. One of our own team members had not been baptized yet, and she decided it was time for her to be baptized as well. She is an amazing young lady and I was proud to be a witness at her baptism. We did much more, but that is a few of the things God had for us to do.
We were supposed to be in Talamanca, Costa Rica, right now, but two of our team members were denied entry so we decided to come back to Chiriqui and continue the ministry we did here. Yesterday we did hospital visits at the children´s hospital, reading stories, praying for healing, and seeing some healings! A young boy wiht a snake bite was supposed to move to Panama City to possibly have his arm amputated after they had already amputated his finger, but yesterday we visited and he is on the road to recovery! We also went up to Volcan and had a great time of intercession, praying for the Ngobe people.
Today is a day off, and at the end of the week the team will head back to Tugri, the capital of the Ngobe Comarca (reservation-nation). Unless God heals my ankle completely, I will go back to Panama City and help out there as I won´t be able to walk the mountains of Tugri.
Thank you for all of your prayers and interest in what God is doing in Panama and in our lives. We love and miss everyone and look forward to seeing everyone in June!
