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September 5-9, 2013 Algarrobo - Chiriqui Mountains Panama, Central America The module we had for this third time was "Bible Study Method and Interpretation Principles".  The School had 21 attendants including David and I, 4 were not able to attend.   Being a long module and with its challenges, for a moment we thought it needed to be split, but Praise the Lord that going through the night the instructors were able to cover the material and finish on Sunday after breakfast.  It became challenging but so interesting when we came to the observation of a Bible text, in order to be able to interpret and apply the lesson to ourselves before teaching it to others.  As the homework was assign t each one of us to do the observation of different texts,  it encouraged us, as we saw how the students would go late to bed and get up as early as 5 am in order to study the text into its context and be able to do a great observation.   My dear brothers and sisters are very intellig

Pastor Rey came to our home this last Monday July the 1st, with the purpose to present their gratefulness for being a blessing to them in the work God has called them to do.  This is the first time a pastor does this. He has served alongside Juselino in the area of Alto de Jesus and neighbouring villages since almost 5 yrs.  Then, he was a lay person with the heart to reach out to other communities and so he did, reaching out to almost 5 areas from which two are new.  Since this past April he was appointed to be the main Pastor of Alto de Jesus, giving him the authority and the freedom to develop disciples. He shared with us the need to develop workers in order to reach out to the other villages around Alto de Jesus such as Murcielago, el Guayabo and other places beyond Vigui.  He already has a group of 13 disciples ranging from 12-60 yrs, as you can see age is not an issue.  What he is doing is paring the young to the old, using the principle of yoking the old ox with a new on

First of all,  thanks so much for your prayers.  The things our Lord allowed us to experience in this preparation trip was something that we can only named as "miracle" and as I write I am praying that the Holy Spirit will help put into words what happened. As mentioned in our prayer request we had goals for this trip and praise the Lord they were almost all accomplished.  Allow me to mentioned them in the order in which they were in the prayer request. Protection and good weather:  God granted us the blessing that the rivers were not high, so we were able to cross them all, until we reached Guabal Saturday afternoon.  We had service where the word was shared, before showing the Jesus film in Ngobe.  The same night we gave the invitation for the brothers that Mateo is discipling to join us to the next village, a place we have not being before, for we wanted to explore the area, make new friends and find a person of peace, so the team coming on July 4th will be abl