Wow, It's Hot. update from Team #2

Wow, its hot!

Yesterday was an incredible day. We tagged along with the missionary, Raul, and looked at several commercial properties for a possible future site for the church plant. While we were asking questions, we looked at several houses in the Brisas area to get an idea of the going rate. We pulled up to the last house got quite a surprise, it seems we were expected! When Raul got out of the car, the owner came out of the house and asked, “Who sent you?” Raul said, “God sent us.” The owner began to cry and invite us into her house. That morning she had imagined her living room filled with people praying and praising God so she spent the morning asking God to send someone to her. When Raul told them about the Richardson’s and their interest in moving to Panama to help with the mission work, she started crying and telling us about her prayers that morning. Pretty soon there wasn’t a dry eye in the house; in fact, I must have gotten something in my eye as it started to water just a little bit! Over and over we see God moving powerfully here. I still don’t understand His choice in calling our brother Walter home, he has left a huge hole here in Panama, but it is clear that God is doing something big!

Terry and I started our day with a run through the muggy weather. We “randomly” decided to run a certain way and what happened? We ran straight into one of the people I was praying to meet to be able to have an important conversation! That schedule left Terry and I behind while the rest of the group enjoyed some of the sights in Panama city. In a few hours, the skies cleared, the sun came out, and all the water that was on the ground from the thunderstorm the night before started to go back up into the air. It became incredibly hot and humid. As Terry and I sat sweltering in a house without air conditioning or fans, he suddenly had a brilliant idea. “Let’s go to the internet cafe!” So we jumped up and walked down to the corner market that has a room set aside for computers and internet access. We each gladly paid a dollar to sit in the blessed air conditioning for an hour. We ended up sitting there drinking cold water and cooling off for two hours!

The group had a great time seeing new things and Terry and I had the blessing to talk and pray with a hurting soul for a couple of hours.

Mike