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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