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Panama Update – Week 3
Well…I had someone call this my weekly 1000 word essay last week.
So I would love to say I’ll keep it short…but I doubt that is
possible. I’m ok with it as
long as I don’t start getting emails returned with red marks.
J
Something pretty amazing happened this week, well amazing for me anyway.
I will have to give a little back story to let you know just how
excited I am. There are two
books written about the first missionaries to the Kuna Indians.
The books are called Born Primitive and Beauty is a Ring in My
Nose. I read both of them
when I first began ministering to the Kuna Indians here in Panama.
I tried several times to try to find the author’s family, because
I had no idea that the author, Marjorie Vandervelde,
was still alive. I found
out from one of our team members here that she is 101 years old and
living in Iowa. Jerona, a
member of our team, had the contact information of a close friend of
hers. She gave me the email
and I contacted the author’s friend, Maureen Horsley.
This past Saturday, through Ms. Maureen I was able to communicate
with the author. I was able
to tell her the major impact her books had on my calling to be a
missionary to the Kuna Indians.
This book helped me understand so much about the Kuna culture and
I also became captivated with Lonnie and Marvel Iglesias, the first
missionaries to the Kuna’s. Lonnie
Iglesias was a Kuna that was forced to leave his island.
He moved to the U.S. and married an American woman.
They then came back to the islands as missionaries.
We had been trying to find copies of the books because they had been out
of print for several years.
Ms. Marjorie had 14 copies left tucked away in her closet and agreed to
sell them to us! We have
also, for years, talked about how amazing it would be to see these books
turned into a movie. I
asked Ms. Marjorie’s permission to look into trying to get that done.
And her response was, "If Christy wants to look into my books
being made into GOOD movies.... tell her "GO, GO GIRL!"
I have instantly fallen in love with this spirited 101 year old
saint. I have started to
pray for an opportunity to visit her.
I cannot imagine being able to sit and listen to the amazing
stories I know she has to tell.
Now I am in the process of researching how one goes about making
a book into a movie. Please
help us pray about this, it would be an amazing tool to use for the
Christian Kuna’s here to learn how important reaching their own people
is for the kingdom. Most of
these believers have no idea how their people first came to hear the
gospel. If anyone has any
experience or knowledge on this subject your help would be greatly
appreciated.
We also had a direct answered prayer, although maybe not as dramatic as
this last story. This past
Sunday Pastor Roosevelt’s church was having a baptism at an encampment
on the other side of the city.
We did not have transportation and knew that taking a taxi would
be too expensive. We prayed
for God to provide a way.
Late Saturday night we still did not have a way so I asked a friend of
mine if I could ride with him on the bus.
Clara, instinctively, decided that she would just stay home. We
have been told numerous times that the busing system here is not
something we want to experience.
They are basically old school buses with no air conditioning.
But I was willing to try it, at least once.
However, about an hour later Kathy called us and said that her
nephew was willing to pick us up and take us to the baptism.
All we had to do was pay a little gas.
I thanked God for sparing me the adventure of the overly crowded,
hot bus! We were able to
witness seven new believers be baptized.
Well actually they said 8 because one of the ladies was pregnant.
Please continue to help us pray for the transportation we need.
At our last meeting, this past Friday, we decided as a team to
pray over a van that Maxi has found.
We want to stand in faith believing that God will provide what
His children are asking him to give.
We know that we do not have to have this particular van, but we
are asking for God’s favor on us.
We believe that God wants to give good things to His children,
when they pray according to His will.
Thank you all for your never ending prayer and support.
I have included pictures of the baptism.
I didn’t count…but hopefully that’s not quite 1000 words!
God Bless!!
Christy and Clara
La Actualización de Panamá – Semana 3
Bien…tuve alguien llama este mi semanal 1000 ensayo de palabra la semana
pasada. Así que adoraría decir que yo lo mantendré corto…pero dudo que
eso sea posible. Estoy bien consigo siempre que yo no comience que
consigue correos electrónicos regresados con marcas rojas.
Christy y Clara |
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Christy and Clara Praying over new believers
Pastor Roosevelt Baptizing new believer
New Believers Baptism |
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