Bible Chapel Mission Trip Blog
Day 4 here in Panama feeling blessed to have breath in our lungs. The sun was out early and bright this morning. We started out the day going to breakfast and one of the guys on our team, Ernie, was a cook in the navy and wanted to do breakfast for everyone and he got to use the kitchen and make some amazing sausage and gravy over biscuits.
We then all went to the different projects and split into groups working on different stuff. Some guys where hauling all the old roof stuff away and bringing back new roofing stuff. A few of us where welding braces on the roof beams. A group of other guys where digging holes and cementing in benches and tables. One other group was working on ceiling in the small gym area and installing a AC unit. And some guys where grinding stuff for painting along with another guy cutting away a layer of cement that needed to be lowered for the new roof to fit properly.
We hit a little setback today though around 9am with a power outage and had to stop doing stuff that involved power tools because the generator we had was not powerful enough to handle them all. So guys gathered together and worked on the projects that didn't need power tools. We went to lunch early and after a great lunch, we heard testimonies from the brothers on the team, Ryan and Adam, and prayed over them both after. God provided for us in a great way, because the power came back on around 3pm and we was able to finish the evening strong getting most of the welds done on 2 sections and the cementing of the benches and tables got finished.
Everyone was pretty exhausted today after finishing working on the hottest day here yet, with a realfeel temperature of 102° and after another great meal for dinner we all headed back to Casa Grande and worshiped with everyone singing 3 songs. Then Brendan and Vince shared their testimonials which was translated in Spanish for those from the Word of Life camp and then everyone gathered in a circle around them individually after their testimony to lay hands on them and pray over them as well. This has been truly a special time each night we all get to be apart of, all for telling what our Lord and Savior has done to transform our lives!
