Responding to the Challenges
Last night we sat in the small living room listening to our
three new DTS staff (Yery, Yessy and Laura for those who know them) tell about
what it had been like for them to lead the DTS this last month. After completing their own YWAM training this
past February, they were ready and willing to take it a step further and lead
others into the same experience they had.
As I heard them share their struggles and victories, I
couldn’t help but feel proud of them for taking on this challenge, and for the
hours of work they had poured in over the last month. Most of our small group of students (we have
4 young men as students in this group!) don’t have the funding they need to
complete the training, although we have made cost as low as we possibly can.
So at the beginning of the week, Yery shared with us that
the small funds were running out and she didn’t know how we were going to have
lunches for this week, let alone travel next week to receive classes in another
town (we will be staying at Gamboa Union Church). But as the week went on, provision came in
from unexpected sources. Our friends from YWAM Panama City donated a large sack
of corn on the cob, and the DTS students and staff made the corn into bollos,
which they sold for a total of $38. Other donations of food and money came in
little by little from other sources, and today they had more money than they
started the week with!
It thrills me to see these young ladies learning that God
can provide for them just as he could for us or for anyone else. It’s no longer a theory that we have
taught. Now the challenge is to live it
out in their own context, in the challenges that they have ahead of them. As I see each one of them responding in faith
and obedience to these challenges, I can’t wait to see how God continues to use
each one of them.
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