Missionary Update

Outreach Opportunity (12/1/2011)

You put kids together with soccer, swimming and crafts, you’ve got yourself a really exciting day of fun! The members of CBC have been working alongside the Word of Life camp to help reach under privileged children in the Republic of Panama. On Nov. 19th, the Word of Life camp hosted a day for the children of Metro Amigo in order that they could come out from the city to their camp in Punta Chame.

Metro Amigo is a government- operated children’s center that assists in meeting the needs of underprivileged children. Many of these children have been abandoned by their parents. Metro Amigo has three homes, one for boys, one for girls and one for young children. On this particular Saturday, the house parents of Metro Amigo were spiritually filled with words of encouragement offered by Mario Herrera. Our very own Pastor Tim refereed soccer while some of the ladies from CBC helped with life guarding and crafts. Witnessing the joy in the children’s faces made this day a great success! If you love kids and serving the Lord, the Word of Life camp can always use workers. During the dry months they have up to 200 children each week, experiencing God’s love at work in their lives. If interested, kindly contact Mirko and Traci Delibasich. They would be happy to be of assistance.

Call 507- 315-1337 or email mirkodel@ cableonda.net Where is God leading you to serve?

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CBC served with the God’s Eyes missionaries and held clinics Nov. 21-23 in Chame, Bejuco and Las Uvas. Over those three days, we met the sight needs of 354 people. We also prayed with each one of them; many of which accepted Christ as their personal Savior! Many thanks to Dr. Bryan Kaiser and Dr. Joseph Sansanelli for coming to Panama again! We had 45 volunteers who helped over those 3 days doing everything and anything necessary to facilitate the mission, from translation assistance, assembling eyeglasses, registration, driving patients, triage, helping them read eye charts, and last but most important, prayer. God has blessed CBC and our community with many willing helpers! We are hoping to do another God’s Eyes mission during the dry season so that we may reach the more remote areas. If you are aware of any specific needy locations, please email your suggestions!

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CBC Missions Update

10/1/2011

New Mom's Mission

Lots of exciting things are happening in Missions at Coronado Bible Church! The monthly visits to Penonome Hospital continue with amazing results in women accepting Christ! By providing them with hand-made tote bags with needed items (clothing, diapers, baby wipes, etc.) we have the opportunity to witness to about 25 new moms each month. In addition, we also visit the pediatric unit and provide small items (juice boxes, snacks, coloring pages, stuffed animals, toys, etc. to brighten their day).

We are always accepting donations of items or money to keep this mission going! The most needed items are: cloth diapers (cheapest place to purchase is Super Fuerte in Penonome or Costo in La Chorrera or Panama City); baby wipes (SuperExtra in La Chorrera has for $1 per package for 80 wipes).

We also need people to sew so if you are interested, please email us at missions@CoronadoBibleChurch.org.

Attention Snowbirds! We are excited to have you coming back to worship with us soon! If you have grandbabies or friends with babies in the states and can bring back used clothing (up to size 9 months) or small stuffed animals, that would be very helpful! We are running low! Also, if you would like to go with us to the Hospital one month, let us know! We are trying to give as many people as possible the opportunity to participate!

Mario & Fernanda

Mario & Fernanda are working hard at teaching the foster kids as well as the neighborhood kids how to live a Christian life. We encourage you to buy a few food items or give them a gift certificate from El Rey or Super 99 to help! They have a lot of mouths to feed around there!

CASA Craft Fair

We will have a table at the November 19, 2011, CASA Craft Fair to La Carreta Restaurant in Coronado. We will be selling baked goods as well as craft items. We are making crosses, picture frames and ornaments out of shells. For those of you on the beach, we still need SMALL shells for this project! All proceeds will support Church missions! If you have any crafts you would like to donate, please bring them to church or contact missions@CoronadoBibleChurch.org.

God’s Eyes

Mark your calendars for the next God’s Eyes! It will be November 21-23! We need translators, helpers, drivers and people to prepare lunch. We will have sign-up sheets within the next couple of weeks. If you aren’t in Panama yet but will be and would like to help, please email missions@CoronadoBibleChurch.org. We need LOTS of volunteers in order for this to go smoothly! It is a truly amazing experience to be involved in and you will be blessed for helping!

Summary

We thank God and you for the opportunity to spread the word of God’s love! We couldn’t do it without you!

The Missions Team

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CBC Missions Update
August 23, 2011
Mario & Fernanda
Mario & Fernanda Herrera are now moved into their rental home in Bejuco. They are working hard with both their foster children and the children they are adopting. In addition, they are reaching out to the neighborhood children and teaching them how to live a Christian life. Each week, they are working with 30+ area kids on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays either at their house or Word of Life! That’s a lot of mouths to feed and you know how kids can eat!

What can you do to help? Bring in non-perishable food items to Church to give to them! If you don’t want to shop, how about picking up a gift card from El Rey or Super 99 that they can use? Did you know that you can use your El Rey points to redeem for gift cards?

CSA Craft Sale Information
The Missions Committee has decided to take part in the November 19th CSA Craft Fair to be held at La Carreta (Equestrian Club) in Coronado. We will have a table to sell baked goods to raise money for various missions projects.

Pana Christopher and Belinda Florada will be coordinating this effort and know that you will all do your best to help make this a huge success. Of course, we will be looking for lots of yummy baked goods of all kinds to sell that day. Our church is blessed with MANY wonderful bakers! We will also need volunteers to help man the booth. We have freezer space for baked goods made ahead of time so it’s not too early to start baking!

Please let Pana (6796-2862) or Belinda (6965-2382) know what you would like to help out with. It should be a fun endeavor for all who participate!

God’s Eyes
We are tentatively planning another God’s Eyes in mid-November. Please be in prayer as the details are worked out that this comes together. We will keep you posted once things are finalized. We are also hoping to have a God’s Eyes in February. This will allow us to get out to the interior to some needy areas as well as allow our seasonal members the opportunity to participate.

New Mom’s Ministry
The New Mom’s Ministry has expanded to also visit the Pediatric Unit at Penonome Hospital. This month when we visited on August 11, 2011 it was “high season”. There were 28 mothers in Maternity and 35 kids in the Pediatric Unit! We scrambled to come up with something for everyone! We have been preparing 25 bags for new Mom’s and 20 bags for the pediatric unit but it wasn’t enough! We visit the hospital once per month. If you would like to donate, the following items are most needed:
Cloth diapers
Clothing (size 0-3 months is most needed)
Baby Wipes
Baby Powder
Feminine pads
Toilet Paper
Q-Tips
Stuffed animals
Crayons
Coloring books
Individually wrapped snacks
Individual juice boxes
Small toys
Twin sheets (this is for the hospital)

We gladly accept anything you have (and of course, cash is good!) If you would like to go one month, please let Pam Sims or Lidia DeConto know. This is an awesome opportunity to spread the word of Jesus to a lot of people at once.

Summary
God is doing great things at CBC! Get involved and be part of these activities! Be sure to visit your website http://www.CoronadoBibleChurch.org/ and visit the Missionary/Outreach Update and CBC in Action to see what’s going on!

The Missions Team

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Bryan & Jennifer Kaiser (8/10/2011)

Hello everyone,
I try to write Saturday night but it took me 41 min to long on and I
wrote you all a letter but I lost the email connection before I could
send it, that's just the way things are here. TIH. This is Haiti!!!!

I dont know where to start I only have a few dozen new stories so I
guess I'll just give you a few brief notes.
1 is it is really hot here, every night I take a shower and 5min later
I have sweat pouring off me again.
My sheets are soaking wet in the morning.

We were told this year we would cut back to seeing only 100 patients
per day because the team is half the size of what it was in Feb. But we
are seeing over 200 patients per day.

Went to the far west yesterday to see 40 patients ... We saw 97 and it
took a few hours to get there due to huge mud lakes in the dirt roads,
wait until you see the pictures, we could not get back because a large
truck was blocking the road because it was stuck in a mud puddle it was
way after dark now we were suppose to be back at 7 because that's when
it is pitch black outside and the bus had no headlamps we ended up
walking for an hour in the dark I got several large thorns in my right
foot which easily penetrated my flips and we walked through mud well
above our ankles many times.
We finally had some tap taps (small trucks) pick us up and drive us a
couple of hours home.

Many people are seeing again .... Saw a lady today with cancer that ate
up her entire eye and part of her cheek. This is a sad sad place.

On the bright side I am losing weight eating rice with weird things in
it!

I have to get back to clinics now.

Bryan & Jennifer Kaiser

God's Eyes " bringing vision to the world"

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Mario & Fernanda Herrera are opening up a Foster Home in Chame. The purpose of this home is to take in kids who are in the city in dangerous situations. They could have parents who are prostitutes or drug addicts who are unable to take care of them. The parents will sign over the children to their care. The Herrera family will teach them how to live in a Christian family. Mario was raised in an orphanage for 11 years and was led by God to Panama from Argentina for this purpose. They are a lovely young couple with incredible faith. They have two children of their own and plan to provide foster care for two children. They also plan to start the adoption process for two additional children who will be permanently part of their family. They will be moving into a rental house in Chame on July 30, 2011. They are in need of everything for this home: furniture, appliances, dishes, towels, pots, pans, etc. If you have something you are not using, please consider donating it. Also, if you have extra stickers from El Rey or Super 99, donate stickers for dishes for them! Please contact Pana Christopher at 6796-2862 to coordinate.

We continue visiting Penonome Hospital monthly to provide hand-made bags containing items for new mothers. These include diapers (both cloth and disposable), baby wipes, blanket, clothes and personal care items for mother and baby. We also talk to them about Jesus Christ and provide Bibles to those who do not have one.

We also go to the pediatric unit and provide small bags with snacks, juice, toys, coloring pages, crayons, and small stuffed animals.

If you would like to contribute, the following items are what are most needed:

Twin sized sheets (both fitted and flat-do not need to match). The hospital is in desperate need of sheets!

For more information, please contact Lidia DeConto at 6794-0235 or email missions@CoronadoBibleChurch.org. Your continued support is appreciated!

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New Mothers Mission (7/22/2011)

On Thursday, July 21, 2011, we visited Penonome Hospital and delivered 23 bags to New Mothers. We were very fortunate to have both Lidia and Diana go so they talked to them about Jesus Christ and provided Bibles to those who did not have one. We also visited the pediatric unit and handed out 17 bags to the kids. These bags contained small stuffed animals, toys, coloring pages, crayons, snacks and a juice box.

Thanks to Nancy who took photographs of the mothers, babies and pediatric patients and provided photographs on the spot! The look of joy on their faces was amazing! Nancy has provided her contact information to the head doctor and told her to call if there is a baby who isn’t expected to live, she will do her best to get there to take photographs for the family to have. What a blessing that is to the family! Sandy Perry provided snacks for the nurses that were greatly appreciated and spent time with the children and distributing the bags! We are fortunate to have such talented, giving members of our church!
There is no other group that visits Penonome Hospital so the doctors and nurses are extremely grateful to have us come in. There is a lot of need. We are going to start leaving some diapers and clothing with them that they can hand out to the needy on days we are not there. We will also leave information so they know that this is a gift from Jesus.
Would you like to know how you can help? We need cloth diapers, baby wipes, toilet paper, coloring books, crayons, individually wrapped snacks, and small stuffed animals as well as help sewing bags. Also, if you would like to go one month to the Hospital, please let us know. Everyone who has gone has been greatly fulfilled! Our goal is to give as many women the opportunity to share in this mission as possible!

To see pictures, visit the church website: CoronadoBibleChurch.org and go to CBC in Action.

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Bryan & Jennifer Kaiser (7/2/2011)

Hello everyone at the Coronado Bible Church !

Jen and I are back in Georgia. USA its always good to be back home, however we must add how much we already miss all of you in Panama.

We just want to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone at the Coronado Bible Church for making our last God's Eyes trip so wonderful.

I'm sure by now Pastor Tim has shared with all of you the numbers of the trip so I'll skip those because God's Eyes trips are never about numbers anyways. They are always about sharing the love of Jesus in a very tangible way. And this is where you all come in, your love and hard work and your willing hearts to serve helped us to accomplish what we have been commanded to do.

Without YOU we are much less effective, because of YOU the Kingdom of Heaven was greatly expanded and for this we are ever so humbly grateful.

Of all the trips we go on the one to Panama is the most organized and efficient trip of every year. We have had numerous trips where we end up with 500 people a day showing up to be helped and they are pushing and shoving to be the next one served. So it is with greatly appreciative hearts that Jen and I once again express our true thankfulness at all the hard work you do to make our mission of bringing vision to the world so easy.

May God richly bless all of you who served alongside with us. You truly have embraced the heart and mind of Our Lord Jesus Christ and we are honored to know you and look forward to serving with you again soon. With much love we pray blessings on you all.

May peace and joy be added unto you,

Bryan & Jennifer Kaiser

God's Eyes " bringing vision to the world"

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It is a beautiful morning in northern Wisconsin. After several days of dark clouds, rain, and chilly weather, it was lovely to get up this morning and see the sun shining. Actually, the sun always shines whether we can see it or not. It reminded me of the fact that even though we can't always see God's hand at work, He is faithfully working and accomplishing His purpose to see His Church established. You may remember when we wrote a couple months ago about an indigenous Kuna pastor, Edelfonso, and the heartache of seeing him lose his precious wife to sickness. We recently heard from NTM co-workers of the way God has used her death to soften the hearts of other Kunas towards the gospel, including her father who is a chief and witch doctor. Please continue to pray for Edelfonso and his family as well as the Kuna church.

Our first month of "home assignment" has gone by incredibly fast. We spent the first week traveling to Illinois and Indiana. We are now settled in a small farmhouse near my sister and her family. It is actually the first time that our younger three children have ever stayed longer than two weeks in one place in the US since we usually spend our home assignment traveling. We have spent longer lengths of time in Canada near Simon's parents, but not in their "passport" country. Michael, Daniel, and Andrew are all playing on local soccer teams. Robbie is working on the dairy farm where we are living. He is up each morning by 5:00 a.m. so that he can help with morning chores. Michael and Daniel along with their cousin, Becca, are picking strawberries at a local farm. Andrew signed up to participate at a local theatre. Theatre camp lasts six hours each day five days a week. He will be performing in the "Jungle Book" July 15th - 17th. We are thankful that God has given our boys different opportunities than what they have experienced in Panama.

July 4th week we will be in the Milwaukee area with Simon's family. His dad and mom are visiting from England to celebrate the birth of Simon's sister and husband's first child. Simon's brother, Andy, and wife, Ralene, live in Milwaukee and we look forward to time with them and their new son, Lenny. Time with family is precious and good-byes seem more difficult the older we are.

After living for 15 years in a house full of "boys" I am enjoying my niece, Becca. She is an MK from Paraguay where her parents minister among the Sanapana people. She will be a senior in high school this August, but she is spending the summer with us here in WI.

I wish we had news from our Naso friends, but since we left five weeks ago, we haven't been able to talk to anybody by cell phone. Please continue to pray for the spiritual growth of the Naso believers. Pray that those reading the Scriptures as well as listening to the audio NT will be challenged in their thinking and understand Biblical truth. We will be making a trip to Siey Kjing the week after we return to Panama Aug. 14th.

With thankful hearts for your part in lives,

Lavonne for the family

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Coronado Bible Church – New Mom’s Mission

And How You Can Help!

Coronado Bible Church is an English-speaking non-denominational church located in Coronado (we also offer instantaneous Spanish translation for our Spanish speaking members and visitors). Our mission statement is:

To be a light in the community.

To spread the good news of Jesus to everyone.

To be a helping hand to our neighbors whoever they might be.

One of the ways we are reaching out is by holding New Mom’s Visits to area hospitals. We held our first New Mom’s Visit on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at La Chorrera Hospital. We delivered and visited with 15 new, needy mothers. We delivered hand-made drawstring bags containing personal care items for the mothers and babies. La Chorrera delivers between 30-40 new babies a DAY! The hospital helped us identify the neediest mothers. Many of these mothers come from outlying areas and have nothing. We saw two new mothers who had nothing to put on their babies – not even a diaper! One of those mothers had a Down’s syndrome baby.

We plan to visit La Chorrera and Penonome Hospitals monthly to continue this mission (San Carlos does not have a maternity unit—all are sent to one of these two hospitals). However, the success of this mission depends upon donations! If anyone in the local community (or coming down to visit) would like to donate, we are looking for the following items:

Baby clothes (have a grandbaby or friend in the states that has outgrown his/her clothes? Bring them down – we will put them to good use!)

Baby wipes

Diapers – cloth (HUGE need for these!)

Diaper pins

Diapers – disposable

Baby Powder

Sanitary Napkins

Toilet Paper

Toothbrush

Toothpaste

Fabric to make bags or baby blankets

Note: Even if not listed above, we will happily accept all donations but we are NOT requesting baby bottles at this time because the hospitals encourage breast feeding and do not want us to provide bottles.

Like to sew? We are looking for people to sew the drawstring bags and baby blankets. We provide the material – you provide the talent!

Don’t like to shop or sew but want to help? We need people to cut material. Also, monetary donations are happily accepted!

Where to drop off donations:

Coronado: Sundays between 10:00-10:30 am during Fellowship time at Coronado Bible Church (located upstairs in Coronado Resort). Stay for Church starting at 10:30 am!

Coronado: Deanna Borden: 6543-4551

Altos del Maria: Belinda Florada: 6965-2382

To Schedule Pick-up: Pam Sims 6680-2531

To view pictures of this mission, go to the CBC in Action tab. For additional information or to volunteer, please contact Pam Sims, Missions Ministry Organizer for CBC at: missions@CoronadoBibleChurch.org.

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WOW is the word that bests sums up my reaction to events of the past week. To recap:

* God's Eyes gave out over 150 pairs of prescription glasses and many, many more sunglasses and non-prescription reading glasses.

* People's eyes lit up when they could see! Many commented that they could now read their Bibles.

* We were very concerned after the first day that we had run through so many supplies needed to make glasses. In fact, leading into the last day, we only had 32 frames left, but saw and assisted 85 people. Some didn't require prescription glasses, but I'm pretty sure that God multiplied our resources.

* We gave out all the juice boxes and had only three bottles of water and two packages of cookies left. God provided (through you) just the right amount!

* We made many new friends, saw about 15 accept Jesus as their Savior for the first time, and planted many seeds which we will pray that others will water until the time that God brings the harvest.

I can't even begin to list all those who deserve thanks. It was a great team effort from all who brought supplies, brought lunches, provided transportation, translated, assisted signing people in, taking care of their needs, praying with people and on and on. the God's Eyes team said this was the best organized program they ever worked in and were overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from our people. They said over and over how excited they were to see what God was doing in Panama! You will permit me (I hope) to tell you how instrumental Ellen was in organizing this past week. You see, I preach the sermons and lead the crowd, but Ellen is the one making sure it gets done the right way. In the end god is praised by all of us using our gifts for His glory! -- Pastor Tim

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Gods Eyes has arrived here in Panama this weekend and joined us at our Sunday Service today. It was wonderful to see them and bring them into our house of worship of God and His Son, Jesus Christ. We are looking forward to three hard days of serving God and the people of Panama with the Gods Eyes team. We will be in Bejuco on Monday and Wednesday and up in the Altos Del Maria area on Tuesday. We hope with Gods Eyes help and skill to fit close to 150 Panamanians with glasses. What a blessing and gift from God that will be.

Pastor Tim put in todays bulletin the following: "We have the opportunity this week to minister to Jesus when we are helping some of God's precious children to see! We are thrilled to have Bryan Kaiser, founder of God's Eyes with us today. He is joined by two couples from Atlanta here to assist. Please take the opportunity to welcome them. Every role is vital in making this ministry successful this week. Remember, we are doing this for Jesus."

Below is a link to todays service that introduces Bryan. Bryan explains what Gods Eyes does and the joy that they get in serving God and Jesus in helping those in need see. Please click on the link to hear Bryan's uplifting words!

Dear Friends,

It is a very rainy morning here in Chame! Actually the the past month has been unusually wet and rainy. We feel right at home since Siey Kjing often had one day after another with continuous rain and precipitation. We are adjusting to life in "town" after living the past 11 years in Siey Kjing. We have kept busy this past month turning the NTM guesthouse into our "home." Simon has been in the office learning the bookkeeping system so that he can fill in when the regular bookkeeper (who happens to be my mom) is not here. The boys have enjoyed making friends in the local Spanish speaking church. Michael, Daniel, and Robbie all attend youth group on Saturday afternoons and on Sunday afternoons, rain or shine, play soccer with the young people from the church.

Last month we made a trip back to Siey Kjing to visit friends, deal with things in our house, and just let people know that even though our summer plans had changed, we would be back to visit as well as to teach anybody interested in studying the Bible. The elderly couple that Simon had been studying with for several months were keeping track of the days and noticed that we arrived back a week later than we had said. Their comment to us was, "We knew somebody must be sick or something bad has happened for you not to come back on the day that you told us." They are waiting for our next visit at the beginning of August to continue studying the Bible lessons. We will be taking the audio version of Naso New Testament recorded onto small machines called Proclaimers. We trust that these, along with the written Word, will be another tool that God uses to reach the hearts of the Naso with the Truth.

Changuinola has been making the Panamanian national news as the town has been the center of protests and demonstrations that have resulted in looting, vandalism, and violence. Many Naso people live in in the Changuinola area so the strikes have affected them as well. Eusebio (Pipón) and his wife, Maria, recently left Siey Kjing and moved to another Naso community near Changuinola so that he could work for a hydroelectric project. Due to the strikes, Eusebio hasn't worked for the past week. We have kept in touch with them by phone. Even though politically things have been uncertain for them, Eusebio and Maria both continue to grow in the Lord and find their strength in Him. They continue to spend time in the Word as a family and now are beginning to teach extended family members. It is very exciting for us to see them take what God has taught them and have the desire to see other Naso people come to know the Lord. Please continue to pray for them as well as the other Naso believers.

Thanks for your prayers,
Lavonne for Simon and and boys

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Dear Friends,
Over the past several months we have asked prayer for Eusebio (nickname Pipon) and his wife Maria as they studied the Bible with Simon. We would like you to rejoice with us over their salvation. They have been hungry to study the Scriptures, and when they missed a study for some reason they were always disappointed and tried to arrange another study time. We believe that they actually trusted in Christ several weeks ago, but because of all the “religious” terminology that has become part of Naso culture, we didn’t want to put words in their mouths for them to express what was happening in their heart. We just kept praying that God would make it evident to us so that we would know best how to continue teaching them. Two days ago, Eusebio came to visit and once again thanked Simon for taking the time to teach him and his wife. He expressed that they knew that “God’s path” was through faith in Christ alone and not through their own efforts. Because of all the works orientated religious influence that has become intertwined with traditional Naso culture, his personal expression of the Gospel was meaningful.

I am no longer teaching Teodocia personally. She joined her elderly parents in their Bible study with Simon. It didn’t really make sense for me to go in one direction while Simon went in another direction to teach the same lesson. She seemed very happy to join her parents and said that if for some reason she couldn’t make it to her parent’s house, she would let me know so I could go to teach her at her house. Although it was right to join the two studies, it felt strange to stop teaching a Bible study. Now I know why God worked it out that way. Eusebio’s younger sister asked if we could teach her the Bible. She is extremely shy so told her mother who told her son who told Simon who told me. I went to her house yesterday, and she was ready and waiting. I asked if she could read her language, and she said that she could. I thought, “Yeah, right. I’ve heard that before.” I was very pleasantly surprised when she read me Genesis 1:1 hardly missing a beat. She said she had learned to read Naso by herself using a Naso Bible that her dad had purchased. Pray for Arcelis as we begin studying together.

Thank-you for your part in what God is doing among the Naso. In a future update we will share some of our upcoming plans and how we believe God is moving us to better serve the Naso people.

May you daily enjoy God’s blessings,
Lavonne for the family