We’ve made it to Panama! My new team and two other teams just left from living at a ywam base in Boqette for one month and doing ministry there! Ministry was so amazing and there were so many different opportunities within it! Just a couple things we did were leading devotions in the mornings & teachings at night, teaching english, clearing land, working at an organic farm, painting, reestablishing house for families of the Nobe tribe, and evangelism throughout the community. Just a couple days after arriving here rainy season had begun, when I thought of rainy season I thought of it sprinkling for like 2 hours every day or at night. But no. Once it hits 2 or 3 it pours heavily for a good 3 hours or longer. It became a normal thing, getting dropped off from the bus coming from town, forgetting a rain jacket, then taking a 30 min walk in this rain with no rain jacket. (fun memories though!)
Tomorrow, my team & two other teams will head to the island Bocus Del Torro, where I will finish out my race at that ministry.
It’s so weird to say I have less than two months left. Everyone has been planning there flights home & making plans for there next steps. Altogether, even though it would be so easy to focus on home at this point, it is so beautiful the way we are able to have perspective that we are not the big picture. We still have 1.5 months to bring kingdom here, within our teams, squad, and community. Time has become so precious and we are soaking up every bit of time that we have here in Panama and with each other! Whether its working harder in physical labor, not missing any mornings in the word, or using one hour of break time not to take a nap but instead evangelize or just enjoy time with each other.
I look back at my time in Turriabla and think that was one of my favorites times, but in the moment it didn’t seem like something amazing or special like how I see it now. That’s life. I was talking to one of my coaches the other day and he said “When your 30 you want to be 25, when your 25 you want to be 21, and when your 21 you want to be 18.”. How right is that?! Time on the race is no different than time in life! We should be living every day and soaking up every moment, using every opportunity to build kingdom. What a gift life is in general! I am so blessed to have an able body to serve my Lord and love on his people like he loves me.
I would like to encourage you to stop living in the future!(I’m speaking to myself as well) The Lord wants to use you right where your at, let him meet you there!
So glad you are experiencing so many different areas and making the best of every situation.
Sara, it has been such a joy to spend time with you and your team o er the past 4 days. We are so proud of the work you have done and look forward to seeing how God uses you and your team over the next 6 weeks! Make the most of every day by being present in the present! We love ya!!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us! Praying that these last 6 weeks be full of spiritual growth and kingdom growth.