Missions Blog

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.