Outreach update

So we have officially completed one week of outreach, six more to go! This first week we worked with the Chinese community in Panama. We ate lots of Chinese food, talked to lots of Chinese people and had a great time. My favorite was leading a few of the church youth groups, we really connected with the kids and were sad to say goodbye :( Its so encouraging to see the Chinese churches of Panama working together and being unified. They have some great plans for the Chinese church in Panama. Here are some pictures from this week:

chinese park

lots of chinese food!

chinese youth group

 Tomorrow we leave for an 8 hour bus ride half way across the country. Our schedule has been modified a bit, instead of going to Tugri Ngobe Comarka for 2 weeks at the end of our trip it will be split into two parts. So tomorrow we will arrive there and stay for 5 days and then we will return again for the last week of our outreach. We will be visiting people and possibly working with the school there so please pray for our ministry and the language barriers! I'm super excited, hopefully I will post again possibly half way through outreach.

love & miss you all
Kayla

week 11

Sorry I haven't been updating much but right now we are fairly busy preparing for outreach! Next week is the last week of classes and Thursday-Saturday we will be going to Tulio's village on the northern side of Panama. Then Monday is officially our first day of outreach and although my team will be staying on base the first week while we minister in Panama City the other teams are leaving. :( Tomorrow is a busy day as our teams will be splitting up to go to 3 different churches and raise funds for outreach which is still not paid for.

Last week Chris and Vanessa Collins who are staff here taught about "Making Plans and Setting Goals." It was a great to just focus on what our goals are for outreach and for life! We talked about values and principles and made a personal mission statement and then we made a group mission statement. Our groups is:

Reality (sharing the reality of Jesus Christ)
Relationships (building relationships with others and God)
Release (releasing people from religious bondage)

So that's our outreach group's mission statement for the 7 weeks and were all pretty excited to see what God has in store for us!

love & miss you all,
Kayla