Several ministries of the Panama Central District, including Evangelism, NYI, Global Missions, along with a team from the East Valley Church of the Nazarene, Arizona, USA, joined to hold an evangelistic event March 15-17.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the participants headed to the Ciricito de Capira community on the west side of Panama, where there is a newly organized Church of the Nazarene. The team helped with some construction and also held evangelistic activities for the children, soccer games and a showing of an evangelistic film.\u00a0 The also prayed for Pastors Navarro who are pastoring the church.<\/p>\n
On Saturday the team went to the mission type church in the El Tecal community and held evangelistic activities.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, everyone went to a different mission type church, this time in the Ma\u00f1anitas de Tocumen community.\u00a0 They held evangelistic activities and prayed for Pastors Lewis, who are pastoring the mission.<\/p>\n
Later in the day on Sunday, all of the participants attended the first worship service at \u00a8The Liberators\u00a8 Genesis site. They praised the Lord together and Pastor Scott Thornton from the East Valley team shared the message from the Word of God.<\/p>\n
A total of 85 children heard the message of the gospel in the three different sites.<\/p>\n
\u00a8We thank God for the 48 participants from Panama and the 18 brothers and sisters from the East Valley, Arizona team. Thanks also to their leaders, Pastor Scott and Linett Thornton, and Katie, a volunteer from Virginia, USA, for their work.\u00a0 Thank you for always being willing to serve the Lord.\u00a0 In these three days everyone was part of the Mission of the Lord,\u00a8 said Jo\u00e9l Bermudez, Panama Central District NYI President.<\/p>\n
Source: Jo\u00e9l Bermudez, Panama Central District NYI President and Panama Communications<\/p>\n\n\t\t