Planning for Next Fall's DTS

We heard some good news at our last staff meeting. It looks like our next DTS will be bi-lingual, English and Spanish, and we hope to have a start date in October 2016. The lecture phase lasts three months, with multi-cultural teachers and world-vision impartation!
Then - the most exciting part - two months of practicum. One of YWAM's requirements is that the practicum must be ministering to a culture different from the host group. There are seven indigenous groups just here in Panama, and many others in Central America. Who knows where God may send this DTS to put into practice the things they will learn? It could be ANYWHERE!
If you are still interested, let us know. And keep watching the fb page or check in here at the blog.

You could look this happy, too! The students and staff of the 2014 - 2015 DTS

Obeying the Commands of Jesus

One of the things that the Formation of Leadership School has been learning is that we must obey the teachings of Jesus. Other than the teachings or commands to believe and love, the most important ones are found at the end of Matthew: Go into all the world...teaching and baptizing.

Today we did just that! Teacher Steve Ganz and Building Hope Director Kenneth Orozco got in the water with Pastor Francisco Cabezon. Two YWAMers, a family member, and two YWAMers from the Panama City center were baptized. David Tracy also helped out.

We had a great time of eating and swimming in Rio Mamoni afterwards. It was really a wonderful day of relaxing and following Jesus - in love, in baptism, and in the fellowship of a meal - communion. I guess we managed to fulfill several commands at once!