1 Thessalonians 2:8 “We loved you so much that we shared with you not only the gospel of God, but our lives as well…”



This past week was a “mountaintop” experience for me. I traveled to Panama to do a missions trip with the youth of our church. We did tons of ministry in the streets of Panama. We led people to Christ as we shared the gospel through a variety of means. One of the highlights of the trip was spending 3 days deep in the jungle with an indigenous tribe, the Embara. We slept in their huts, ate together, and did worship services and bible studies 3-5 times each day.



When we pulled up to the village by boat, which was 3 hours away from civilization, we were greeted by the villagers. Everyone was warm and welcoming. Half of the tribe was Christian and the other half went to the local witchdoctor. We shared the gospel through our testimonies, bible lessons, and gospel bracelets. We showed them how to share the gospel with others and went deeper into the jungle and shared the gospel with the next village.



Our mantra was, “We are going as missionaries and not as tourists”. We definitely got a feel for what being a missionary is like! Three of the kids felt a call to missions and one is going back to Panama this summer to serve at the YWAM base.



The most important thing is that people came to Christ and the youth at the church learned what is was like to be the hands and feet of Christ in what seemed like another world. God is moving so greatly and is gracious enough to invite us to participate with Him!


Buck

We went to Grandbubby's house for Shabbat Dinner last night. We have started a new tradition with the kids to go visit my grandmother and have dinner with her on Friday nights. Buck and I think it is so important for them to understand my Jewish roots. As many of you are well aware, both my grandparents lived though the nightmare of Hitler first hand. Both are survivors of the Holocust and Dachau(one of the concentration camps.) Although we are rasing our children as Christians--me being Jewish never goes away. I am now a completed Jew. I think it is so special that my children are getting to know grandbubby--they will look back on this time and realize just how special this time was with such a couragous woman.

Ok... I know I have slacked on the posts here lately--so I am going to try and catch up. We took the girls skiing 2 weeks ago, and although I have no actual action shots here is one with Corey. He and his family invited us to their time share and we had a great time.