Tobias being baptized. A church is being started in his home.
We just got done with a great week of work with a volunteer team from Oklahoma. They joined us from several different churches in and around Oklahoma City. We wanted to share a few of the things they did while they were here.
They worked with several different church planters: Efrain and Fulvia Del Cid, Carlos, Noel, Higenio, Juan Carlos, and Norma. Our focus for all our volunteer teams that come in from the USA is to pair them up with different Panamanians, and have them work together. This way, the follow up and next step of ministry is done by the Panamanian church planter that works alongside the volunteer group. These Church planters are doing an amazing job and God is doing so much through them.
The team worked in several different areas of town: Don Bosco, Caledonia, Santa Fe, and El Cangrejo.
They did quite a few different things as well: Children’s activities in a park, door to door evangelism, handed out bottles of water at a parade, prayer walked, and mapped out several areas of the city.
You can tell the group was pretty busy. The most exciting part of the week was a Baptism service that was held Sunday morning at a nearby river. Four people were baptized as we celebrated together the new life that these four people have in Jesus. They are attending two of the different churches that Panamanian Church planters have recently started.
Mostly we’re excited about what all God is doing here. He is orchestrating things that we never thought would be able to happen. We are so fortunate to be a part of the wonderful things he’s doing in and through the lives of many different Panamanians. Please pray for the work here as God opens more doors for ministry, and as we see how we can best serve him.
We’ll try and post again soon to tell y’all more about what all is going on here. Check out our pictures page as we continue to put some new photos on there. We’ve also added our November praise calendar to the “prayer requests and calendar” page, feel free to check it out and join what all we’re doing here through prayer! Thanks for keeping up with us, God bless!
Derek and Audrey Tucker
Awesome!! I’m assuming that Tobias is the one in the middle…Who are the other two? I love watching and celebrating when someone follows Christ in baptism!
Tobias is the one in the middle. The one on the left is Higenio, a church planter who is discipling Tobias. The one on the right is Gustavo Gumbs, a Panamanian, and former missionary to Africa, who has worked with us in several different areas.