MGPanama/e3Partners Blog

Always it is a challenge for me to start a report or a sharing on writing. This time I  sat at a host family home, listening to Darlene Zschech songs.  At the same time trusting in Him to help put my thoughts and impressions in writing.  For the conclusion of this journey will be that He had grace and mercy on us all along the way. As we prepared and packed our bags, the worry about the weather in the US was constant in my mind for, one thing is to pack while in a cold weather country and another thing is to pack on hot, hot weather country, so I packed what I thought I would need.  And it happens all the time we come to the States, I packed more than needed, at least for me, David is more practical. P. Todd's kids + Issaiah  Arriving into Atlanta was nice and for a moment we thought, hey this is nice weather, but we got into Cleveland airport and oh my Lord, it was cold and lots of snow; so we got boots out of the suit...

                              "The Book and The Sword" There was a time when time was not a problem; a place where what was impossible became possible. A place that needed order for it was in chaos, where evil and good were in constant conflict.  Light fights its way through the heavy darkness that covered the land. The Sword, yes, the Sword with supernatural power within, for it has life of its own.  A Sword, which becomes one with whom ever gets to hold it, with a pure heart. In this scenario our story unfolds.   It is dark in town, in the year of “one day”; a family sits around the dining table with a candle lit, which gave enough light as for the father to read “The Book”.  Now, this Book is not any book, the father took good care of this Book for it contained secrets, mysterious stories told in early days, but with enough power as to affect the lives of those who read it thr...

VISION IN ACTION "Expecting a Miracle" 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  John 17:20-23 Normally, reporting is not a natural virtue of human kind; somehow it becomes tedious to sit down and make memory of the things that took place in ones lives, specially if time is against us, pushing us back in our attempt to go against our natural behavior.  But it is necessary and some, like me, that enjoy writing, but the difficult part, is to put in words what is in our mind and heart.  For there are not enough words or languages to express my gratitude to our Lord for the things He allows us to do or not do.  Therefore, allow patience to be your companion as you read and, I pray He enables the words to put on ink my thoughts. Family: ...

8 Then your light will break out like the early morning, and you will soon be healed. Your right and good works will go before you. And the shining-greatness of the Lord will keep watch behind you. Issiah 58:8 Authentic Servant Leadership Workshop: Together with one of our disciples that through the years have become dear friends in the Lord and by our Lord's grace, we were able to impart this workshop which main purpose is to allow the Holy Spirit to develop in each one of us a servant heart in what ever level of leadership in which our Lord has us. "Learn from me, said the Lord, that I am kind and humble of heart" ,  wow what a description of oneself; can we say that of ourselves?  This was a challanging question given out to the audence and we all felt short of the standar set by our Lord.  It begins in the heart, believe it, trap it, then it goes to our mind changing our view of the word "leadership" .  An actitute that can only be develo...

Jesus saw this and was angry with the followers. He said, “Let the little childrencome to Me. Do not stop them. The holy nation of God is made up of ones like these. Mar 10:14 Llano Tugri is the capital city of the Ngobe Indian Reservation. On the 9th of January, God allowed us to take a "More of Christ Celebration" to the kids at Llano Tugri.   It took preparation from two fronts; one front was at Moises's office, where the gift bags were prepared and sent to our home, the second front was from our home at David City.  Al the food packing, generator, movie equipment, camping equipment and even some kitchen appliances were packed.  An extra 4x4 truck was rented.  In total we were around 25 in the team, including the Ngobe Pastors that came from other villages to be of help. Our meeting point was at the Tugri School on the 9th, it was awesome that we met at the entrance of the Ngobe Reservation, which...

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 clini...

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. ...