Day 8

Unlike the Encounter weekends at Seacoast we sent the women home Friday night but they were to return at 8:30 Saturday morning to complete the Encounter. We began promptly at 10 on Saturday (Panamanian Time!) with a full house of about 70 participants. We presented the Healing from Past Wounds, and Generational Sins talks including testimonies from some of the team before lunch; and began the afternoon with the Betsy leading the participants in a prayer of renouncement and destruction of their spiritual profiles. Griselda invited the unsaved to come to Christ and then we served Communion. Glory, Glory, Glory.

After the final talk on the Holy Spirit we had a time of Prayer and then our favorite part, sharing time. We had many come forward and claim physical healing, spiritual healing and clear vision for their futures. Praise be to God! In spite of us, in spite of the time limits and the small facility, many lives were changed.

Saturday night nine exhausted Seacoast Mission Team members, one very tired Pastor’s wife, the Pastor, his son and Miguel the cat herder, all gathered for a farewell dinner at a restaurant on the causeway. We ate wonderful Panamanian food, stopped for ice cream and toured some of the prettiest parts of Panama.

We were all falling asleep but pastor wanted to spend the last minutes of our visit with us. The panama people are very hospitable. They fed us well, looked out for our every need and blessed us with their total commitment to the Lord
Pastor invited us all back next year and he wants us to bring our husbands. Two team members do not have husbands but Pastor prayed they would by next year! Only time will tell.