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EIIM / Escuela Internacional Intensiva de Misiones |
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Escrito por Becky Barends
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Jueves 09 de Junio de 2011 04:35 |
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ImagĂnate cambiando tu vida.
ImagĂnate cambiando la vida de alguien.
ImagĂnate cambiando la comunidad entera.
ImagĂnate cambiando al mundo.
ES EXACTAMENTE LO QUE DIOS QUIERE HACER CONTIGO.
Y esto es lo que la Escuela Internacional Intensiva de Misiones (EIIM) en OM Panamá hacer. SĂłlo dando 3 meses de tu vida a Dios podrĂa cambiar el mundo.
Contactanos para mas informaciĂłn! |
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Mission Extreme Participants Lay it All on the Altar |
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“To this day I can’t quite believe we managed to do it with just a pickaxe, some spades and a wheelbarrow,” says Jonathan, participant in the Mission Extreme programme from February to April 2011, organised recently by OM Panama. “But together we were able to complete the job and leave a legacy of an altar.”
It was an experience that really stood out for Jonathan in the two-month programme in Panama: the building of an altar in a church in Bonyic. Together with seven other young people, mainly from the UK, the USA and Canada, he spent several weeks doing practical work and sharing the gospel in the Panamanian countryside.
“The church had a big gaping space at the front where the concrete floor ran out, and the pastor assigned us the task of filling it with an altar,” says Jonathan. “Firstly, it was a good move on God’s part to include Andrew and Jonny, two people with backgrounds in designing stuff, in our team and they were able to apply those skills to design the thing. Not only was that a blessing but just seeing how each and every one of the team chipped in with the tough manual work that we had to do was so encouraging. We essentially moved part of a hill 20 meters to provide the support underneath the layer of concrete, and it was a mammoth job with just a pickaxe, some spades and a wheelbarrow. But each and every person in the team really gave their all and battled through the physical demands, back pain, sunburn and more together.”
They were all daunted by the task, says Jonathan, and in the end it took them three half-days of work to get it done in the blazing heat and on top of the tiring outreach that they were also doing that week. “But we pulled through together. The reward was seeing how grateful the pastor was. This experience really made our team bind closer and closer together. We just ignored our physical pain for the benefit of growing God’s kingdom. We have God to thank for providing everything that was necessary and after overcoming this challenge, we never looked back.” |
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The Power of the Gospel in Panamá |
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Jonny, a recent participant in the 2011 Mission Extreme programme of OM-Panamá, learned an important lesson during the two-month programme about the simplicity - and the ultimate power - of the gospel. As he and his fellow participants were sharing the gospel in a little wooden house during an outreach in Solong, his motivation was low. “It had been a long morning,” he says. “We had been hiking there in the heat and crossing rivers and this was one of the last houses we were going to visit. However, I summoned the energy and began to share the story of the gospel to two young guys that were sitting in their house. My Spanish is pretty poor at best and I had to speak in simple sentences and just convey the simple message that Jesus loved them and had died on the cross so they could go to heaven.”
They looked really uninterested, Jonny says. “But I gulped back my feelings of scepticism, said a quick prayer in my head, and asked if they wanted to accept Christ. And they both nodded their heads! I was so amazed at the power of gospel, I didn’t need to convince these guys with clever arguments or give loads of details of what it might mean to be a Christian… I just stated the basic facts. This was such an encouragement to me!” |
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