Monday, July 20, 2009

This last week was a busy one for my team and I. Its hard to stay busy when everyday you don't know what you are going to do, nor do my leaders. They do a good job at being creative in finding ways for us to keep focused on human trafficking and prostitution. My teams goal are to get the word out to Panama and the Panamanian church. This is just the beginning! A man named Chris is our contact here, his heart's cry is for the church to help in these area's of injustice.

That gives you a small idea of what my team of twelve are doing. You can go visit twelvehearts.wordpress.com to check out weekly what my team is up to. My friend Lindsay is a great writer and keeps it updated.

So I got on a bunny trail and now back to my first statement. We had a busy week. My team and I got to go to a village called Cameron. This was a central location amongst the Ngobe Tribe. There was a school there and that is where we stayed for 4 nights and 5 days. We were with a medical team from Connetticut. There also was a dentist and I got to help out and be his assistant. It was fun to be able to help out and to use some skills for the Lord, that I didn't know I would get to use!! We all came back with some chigger bites or flea bites. We all have been itching for a while now. We have some lotion and medicine to help the itch and the spread of these little bugs. It was a good time and to meet the people of the Ngobe tribe was awesome. To see the way each tribe is different. Some of the other teams in my group have visited other tribes and its fun to see how they are all different, but all Panamanian.

Our next adventure in the week was our Una Voz or one voice, arts festival. There were people selling items they had made from carvings, to paintings, from feed to clothes. Also there was drama's, musicians, runnway models, tribal dances and our Leader Susi Childers spoke about her travels. Voice for the Voiceless is Susi and her husband Pauls ministry. This ministry is to tell others about the injustices in the world, like Human trafficking, Aids, Orphans, Prostitution and so on. Susi encouraged and challenged all of us in the room to help and take a stand against these issues. It was a good night and we were all tired and so I write all of this down on a great day. Its my day off!

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