MGPanama/e3Partners Blog

e3 Medical Team (national included) Awesome Team the one our Lord brought last August 2-9.  They were only nine north eagles but their medical service mobilized 40 nationals including the Ministry of Health's personal. The service was done in two areas, Tugri which is the capital of the Reservation and at Peñas Blancas. Moving to the next village Our Lord allowed the clinic to have dental, glasses, immunization, medical attention and well supplied pharmacy.  Most of these services provided by the government, actually, the medical team was a catalyst to mobilize all these services. David having his wisdom molar removed.  Partnering with the government was a new experience, that at the beginning was not easy for they expected us to mold to their routine or system of patient attention but since they had to travel each day placed us in the advantage of starting the clinic with the e3 way of doing medical clinic and at the end they adjusted to our way.  I am n

Juselino's Report: As part of the e3Partners / MGPanama team, Juselino has being doing a great job on training and following up the work with churches that participated in the last Medical team taken to four communities in the Santiago area on March 2015. The report we got in general is that so far two churches have being following the IAS format for home churches with the purpose of multiplying themselves into more home churches, on the long run the vision is that these small churches eventually will become establish churches that will impact their communities. Besides the follow up he is expanding the ministry to the central provinces, a place where e3 / MGP served some years back.  In this area he is serving two pastors and their churches, we pray that we may be able to take a team to this area, of so much spiritual dryness. Mateo's Report: Serving the Lord at the Atlantic side of the Ngobe reservation, Mateo has being doing a good job on church planting.

Material for Church at Balsa This year our Lord has provided for churches in the Ngobe reservation to have construction materials needed to start building a place where to meet and worship and also outside houses (outside bathrooms).   The ministry was delighted to have calls from Pastors asking help with the transportation of these materials that were bought (1/2 the local church and 1/2 the ministry).  This way of providing 1/2 of what is needed and the transportation does not give a sense of full dependency, but of ownership in both ways.  The local churches have worked hard to be able to acquire the materials, so just that is a plus. Unloading the materials for Balsa with church members. The churches at the mountains that have already started their building are:  Pacific side:  Viroli, Balsa and Madrigode (outside house) the church roof needs painting for corrosion is doing its work and needs to be stopped, the roofing was sent by Moises Sr. about 12 yrs ag

S ome time ago, we shared with you that our truck's agency agreed to change the transmission for a new one, due to some reports David did before the warranty period ended.  Due to these reports they checked the transmission finding that it had a mixture of water and oil in it, something that should not be since it is a sealed transmission.   I t took a long time but finally the transmission arrived and thank God it was replaced.   A mazing, I thought it would take about three days to bring down the old transmission and put up the new one; it only took about five hours.   D avid stayed at the workshop like a father waiting for the arrival of his first baby.  At the end, we are happy with the results and thank our Lord for looking after the things He has placed in our hands to be good administrators of it. A ll glory to Him!  the truck is ready to keep on running for a while now.  Thanks so much for remembering this in your prayers. I n Him and until He comes ba

What a joy to see on Father’s Day the dedication of baby Jose, it was a nice gift.  While the Pastor prayed for him and for his parents, he behaved nice and what took us by surprise, was the handing to Jose and Vanessa a letter addressed to baby Jose, this letter is to be open on his 13th birthday.  I pray I will be around in order to hear what this letter says.   I know Moises GranPa would have enjoyed seeing how far our Lord has brought us, he is greatly missed.  Just a note, as I am finishing this small update, Moises called asking for a picture where Hanna and grandpa would be; Hanna has being asked to speak on a member of the family that is special to her, she choose grandpa, what a privilege that at small age she still remembers him, they were very close. Raising a kid now days is really a challenge, that will hardly be done well, unless the Lord is in the midst of the family life and our lives.  We are all grateful for your faithfulness to the Lord on partnering w

North Team It seems that this year the rains have arrived a little early, but still our Lord blessed us with a few dry days, enabling the team reach their sites safely.   The experience the teams went through was little challenging putting to the trail the flexibility in change of plans or strategy used.  Such was the case of the team at Monte Lirio, due to difficulties with the previous pastor that the church (group of followers at this area) requested for him to leave, the team had to impart leadership guidance to the three members plus that are at this moment leading the work, plus 12 interested youth.  Plans for a near future is to be able to start basic Bible training to those that are eager to learn.  There were 3 baptism in this area, the work with the women was hard due to the problem mentioned above, pls pray that our Lord will heal their hearts. For years we have being praying for brother Lazarus’s wife to come to full trust in our Lord, well, we were in

The Bible Institute was a blessing, we only had two pastors that were not able to attend due to the rains.  The module on the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit was an eye opening for many of the attendants.  Things that are taking place in churches and are not according to the Word.    How does the Holy Spirit dwells in us empowering us to be witnesses of the One who died for us on the cross, the same way He with the early Church.  Challenging is the issue of giving up ourselves so He will reign. At the  beginning  of the  module  we (teachers and us) were  expectant  that many questions will arise, but for our surprise hardly any question came up, but they opened themselves on sharing  about  their experiences with other ways  of  worship and ministering.  Inside of me, gratefulness arose that He allowed me to witness the strong roots and clear understanding they have on the person of the Holy Ghost.   Next class in Sept. Praise Jesus that starting last year 12 Pastoral packages were s