Team 2 Update 8-19-09 # 3

I got new shoes, sorry Terry!

Mike

Update from Panama 8-19-09 # 2

As we like to get coffee first, Jim is making fast friends with the baristas in the lobby of the office building. He says that they are smiling in English!

Mike

8-19-09 Team 2 Update

Our routine has begun in earnest! We begin our day by leaving from Delores’s house at 7am in order to arrive at the “Tower of the Americas” downtown to read at 9am with four lawyers in their office on the 5th floor. As you read earlier, this is an absolute Divine appointment as these contacts came by “accident!” As it turns out, Libby’s reader is looking for a church, Lynn’s is struggling with some life path choices, Jim had a wonderful “seed moment” in a discussion of the meaning of the word baptism, or as Jim likes to say, “baptizmo!” My reader, Fabiola, and I got into a fantastic study of the first chapter of Luke. Her English is so fluent we are having a full blown Bible study right out of the English Bible! Today we were talking about how Zacharias demanded more evidence to support his faith while Mary simply surrendered to the Lord’s will. This text has been our foundation here in Panama as we do our best to go from one Divine appointment to another.

Mike










I actually have a gap in my schedule today so I wanted to share a few photos with everyone. We were blessed to visit the Carundu Christian Bi-lingual school that Betty and Raul Alvarado founded about 9 years ago. While we were visiting the children were practicing for a presentation of folk dancing, so of course Libby Richardson had to show them how it is done in California!

Mike