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Teaching Kids How to Worship Jesus

February 25, 2011 by ecoach Leave a Comment

Brenda spent some time in January, teaching at a Bible camp for about 40 kids from the Caimitillo community.  This is the fruit of an ongoing partnership with Pastora Raquel that you can read about in other places in our blog.

Listen in as she shares some of the story of what was done and what it has meant to the church.

Thanks to one of our contributing churches for the funds to help acquire the supplies, send some of these kids to camp, and transportation costs!

Thanks for praying for us

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Filed Under: Ministry, Panama

Prepping A Church for Door to Door Evangelism

February 3, 2011 by ecoach 1 Comment

01 January 2011 027A Foursquare church on invited me out last weekend to prepare their team to go door to door.  Because of some miscommunication, I didn’t realize that this was my expected purpose.  I was invited to give my workshop on personal evangelism.

I taught the entire 3 hours in Spanish, and promptly took a 3 hour nap when it was all done!

Coming alongside ministries

After the workshop was over, they took to the streets into a new residential subdivision that has come up near their church.

Door to door campaigns are common for this church, it is one of their most effective evangelism styles and I learned that part of my purpose was to come alongside and motivate them for the adventure.

If I could do this over again, I’d gear my workshop more in that direction.  I focused a little too much on evangelism as a life style.

But, in spite of the misplaced focus, the Lord can and did use the workshop.  The organizer mentioned that 53 people attended the workshop.  Here is what she said after the event.

“We often want evangelism reduced to a formula we can put into a book and follow it like a recipe.  But what you’ve helped us to see is that evangelism is a process, and that it’s a process that each one of worked through ourselves in coming to faith.

This helps us to realize that when we go door to door, we need to be patient with people who are not yet ready to receive, and be receptive to noticing those who are.  We need to be listening to the Spiritual Thirst.”

Now I wasn’t able to actually go along with them to do the campaign and help them debrief the experience, but I hope that I’ll be able to return in a few weeks and hear how it went.

Filed Under: Ministry, Panama, Teaching

Growing Leaders for their own Ministry

February 3, 2011 by ecoach Leave a Comment

100_1873For the last several years, I’ve been going to Nicaragua under the PRMI banner to provide leadership training for Young Life Latin America. 

The work of Young Life Latin America has risen up several indigenous leaders to national level positions. We have come along side them to give theological and practical training in cooperating with the Holy Spirit.

The 2010 camp brought together national and regional directors from the 6 Latin American countries.

Omar Picado, one of the National Nicaragua Directors for Young Life, had this to say (compiled from conversations I’ve had with him):

“I remember the first year I experienced the Dunamis project and felt the presence of the Holy Spirit. Then every year that the group has come, I’ve learned some ways to pray for the youth with whom we work. You’ve taught us how our ministry can be centered in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Your annual investment in us help us fulfill our mission: every kid should hear about Christ in their own environment.

We are able to see the life changes that happen as a result of the Lord working through us. We are grateful for your work.”

Check out these videos (I haven’t figured out yet how to minimize the background noise):

Video1:  Leader Marta Valle shares about events during the camp, and how that has helped her lead her groups.

Video 2:  Vida Joven leader Rosa shares about the impact the Dunamis teaching has had on their ministry.

 

For background, see these posts

  • Developing Leaders for Ministry in Latin America
  • Coming Along Side Young Life Panama
  • Hear directly from Vida Joven Leaders
  • The Ministry of Presence
  • Extending our Work into Nicaragua
  • Nicaragua: Fruit from 2007 Trip
  • Healing Ministry of Jesus Conference with Vida Joven
  • Helping Others Forgive

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