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Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 4

Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 4

Jan 22 9:41 AM
Jan 22 9:41 AM

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Our experience at Word of Life camp has been so memorable.  The WOL team is all in, pouring themselves into the lives of the children. Thursday evening was the campfire - nearly two hundred campers stood in front of the camp fire throwing in small sticks to symbolizing "All that I am, all that I have, and all that I hope to be for Jesus."    
 
On Friday night one of the most popular events of the week took place, Carnival! Eight booths were set up with games and prizes. The children move from booth to booth having a great time.  Our team brought the prizes which we collected as donations. The children loved them.  As camp came to  a close on Saturday we learned 83 children accepted Christ as their Lord and savior and 73 more children rededicated their lives to Him!  
 
          
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Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 3

Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 3

Jan 19 9:19 AM
Jan 19 9:19 AM

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Hello, my name is Josiah, I am 14 and visiting Panama to serve here at Word of Life. On the second day of the mission trip, a lot of things happened, to me, to the students, and to the leaders. The day started with French toast for breakfast, soon after we had a missions trip meeting where we heard one of the Panamanian staff’s testimonies: Ishmael. We were very moved by learning how God uses tragedies and turns them into beautiful parts of someone’s story of how they found God. After that we played games and gave some of the consolers a chance to take a break, that’s when I took a 15-minute nap before I helped with the zipline. The zipline was very fun and the kids had a wonderful time; some of the counselors also went down the zipline. Once the last kid went down the zipline it was lunch, where we enjoyed a beef stew with pinto beans and rice with a salad. We finished lunch and headed to the pool, this was an excellent time to connect with some of the children, the pool is where I connected with most of the children outside of my assigned group. We played more group games afterward and then had dinner.  We ate pizza, which was delicious as always. Then we watched a wonderful live show performed by the junior counselors, there was singing and dancing and a wonderful message where we learned about how God created all of these wonderful things such as stars. and planets, but the most beautiful thing that God created is a human being saved by Jesus ' blood who died on the cross to save us from our sins. We ended the day with small group devotion and we went to bed.

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Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 1

Panama Bible Camp 2024 - Day 1

Jan 16 1:40 PM
Jan 16 1:40 PM

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Our team of 12 arrived in the afternoon on Sunday, January 14 without any delays or incidents.
 
Day-1  Monday
Our day started with team morning devotions. John 13: 1-17, Jesus serving the disciples and washing their feet.
 
The children arrive tomorrow, so today is the final preparation for a week of camp. Our team was introduced to the Word of Life Missionaries and Staff and then explained what needed to be done to have camp ready for the children. We divided into small groups and went to work. One of the dorm buildings needed the exterior painted as well as the deck around the pool area.
 
 
 
Then we went on to sorting and organizing the many donations, clothing, shoes, soccer balls, etc., that our team was blessed to offer to the children and camp facility. We also were involved in helping the Staff finalize some of the crafts and decorations to be used to share the gospel in story form for the children to understand the love of Christ. 
 
After dinner, we learned some of the songs complete with hand and body motions that we all will be presenting to the children tomorrow. Lights out at 11 PM to get some much-needed rest to be energized for greeting the children.
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