Teaching Children’s Workers in Arraijan

While I was in Volcán at the Operation Mobilization Panama Mission Base, Brenda and our kids were at a workshop for Children’s Workers in Arraijan Panama.

Arraijan is about 30 minutes west of Panama City and is a booming suburb with new subdivisions springing up.  Life is still affordable there of Panamanians, in contrast to the outrageous rental and retail housing prices in the city.

A church planter and his wife have been in Panama for several years and were connected with the church we attend until just recently when they felt called of God to plant a church in Arraijan.  They moved their family to the neighborhood and opened the church a few months ago.

During their many years in Panama, they have been involved on a national level in teaching children’s workers.  In fact, they organized the Children’s Leadership Conference in January that we taught at.  As part of their continued influence and growing the church, they arranged another conference particularly for the churches in this town.  Liz VonSeggen of www.daleandliz.com returned to provide training in Puppetry.

Brenda was invited to come and do a workshop on crafts.  Using the information gathered at www.mismanualidades.org (Brenda’s website) and some more that will be posted, she gave another presentation to about 70 more workers.

The photo is from a different camp, but shows the idea.

During our road trip in the US, several more people have offered to help Brenda develop that website and contribute to it.

Once again, we saw the tremendous demand and need for Spanish language instructional material.  People were asking Brenda if she had written a book to sell that had this stuff in it.  Perhaps that will become a future revenue source.