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Public Bus Transportation in Panama

April 24, 2008 by ecoach 1 Comment

Diablo Rojo

 

When we moved here to Panama, we sold both our cars and chose to use the public transportation system.

Taxis and buses are our primary means of getting around. 

Having experienced it for several months, would you join us in praying for provision of a car?

Yesterday for example, what would have been a 15 minute car ride, took 80 minutes in a bus.  Other times, we have chosen to forgo an errand or even skip a meeting simply because the moving around the city is near impossible at certain hours.

Tomorrow is payday for a majority of people.  Starting around 3pm, the streets, cars, and buses will be jam packed and gridlock will exist until nearly 7pm.  The challenge for us is that we are to conduct an evangelism workshop across town and need a bus to get there.

During rush hours, taxis refuse passengers if they don’t want to go there.  We have been left stranded a few times, and occasionally shown up 90 minutes late because of transportation issues.

Here is a story from La Presna about the problems with buses, focusing on overcrowding and limited supply.  It doesn’t address the fatal bus fires or fatal accidents from drag racing at night that have happened recently.

Tourists might think its cool to pay $0.25 for a bus ride experience, but for those of us who live here and need to use them, they can be a dismotivating obstacle to doing life.

It is one of the largest issues that has dominated the news here in the last few months, and most of today’s morning news was about transportation.

Filed Under: Panama, Prayer Tagged With: Prayer

God can use broken Spanish. . . .

April 19, 2008 by ecoach 1 Comment

I completed the first of two part evangelism series for a church in Panama. 

It was my second workshop in Spanish, and I want to give thanks to God for a growing capacity to teach in Spanish.  While the grammar was not 100% perfect, I was told that I was understandable, and the church gave me great grace.  My family was with me, and we were treated to excellent and warm hospitality.

Part I — focused on our motives for evangelism, (for example: Evangelism Motives) and a brief introduction to the model of Phillip and the Ethiopian. 

As part of the presentation, I explain some of the richness of the Gospel and God’s loving pursuit of us.

What surprised me however, was a visitor walked up to Pastor afterwards and said he was ready to start following Jesus. 

He had been invited by a friend to come and hear the presentation and somehow with my limited Spanish, the Holy Spirit had convicted him of his need to follow Jesus.

My presentation was but one part of this man’s journey to faith, but last night he was as ready as the eunuch was in the Acts passage to start following Jesus. 

All I can say is wow.

Filed Under: Workshops

Evangelism Workshops — Rio Abajo

April 11, 2008 by ecoach Leave a Comment

TallerEvang The next two Friday’s this April I’ll be conducting workshops on Evangelism at Oleo de Gozo church.

April 18 — the motives for evangelism and the Phillip and the Ethiopian.

Homework — looking for people that God points out.

April 25 — discuss the weeks experiences and coach on how to present the gospel.

The training discussion will look something like this:
http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2007/10/effective-evangelism-training-lab-time

We also talked about launching and forming an evangelism department (something like a committee, but not quite).  We talked about evangelism training groups
http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2007/10/personal-evangelism-coaching

In May, we have received invitations to teach at other conferences in Panama.

Filed Under: Workshops

Basic Food Costs Continue to Rise in Panama

April 6, 2008 by ecoach Leave a Comment

One of the most important issues in Panama is the rising prices of food.  Here is a great article that reports some of the price increases.

Basic Food Costs Continue to Rise in Panama – Panama Guide

As a family we have seen:

  • potatoes from .30/# to .70/#
  • drinks from .19 a pack to .29

When we first visited Panama, we thought these prices were really cheap.  Compared to what we were paying at US grocery stores, they were.

Now that we live here, we got use to paying .30 for potatoes.  To go to .70 in a week for potatoes is really expensive.

The rising prices of nearly everything in panama may only be nickels and dimes, but it is huge percentage increases that are going to force this to become the #1 issue in the mind of the electorate.

Filed Under: Panama

Shallow Water Ahead for Panama Canal : NPR

April 4, 2008 by ecoach Leave a Comment

A report on NPR about the canal. Shallow Water Ahead for Panama Canal : NPR

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