MERRY CHRISTMAS DEAR ONES!!!!

Dear Fellow Missionaries,
As we pause to celebrate Christmas, we also acknowlege the wonderful gift of grace the Lord bestowed upon us all.. Because of His great love for us, He sent His only begotten Son to redeem His own..How blessed are we..let us rejoice and be glad in it..It is all about Him..His abiding love and presence, His never ending faithfulness, His power and for His promises. We also thank Him for you, dear friends, the blessing each one of you is to us...We wish you all and your families a wonderful Christmas, and many blessings in the coming year.
Twelve days to go!!!
With much love in Christ,
Richard & Norma

Devotionals Schedule

Devotionals

The purpose of this activity is to give each person an opportunity to do the daily devotions so that one person does not have to do them every day, plus do his/her other duties (unless someone should feel called to do them all). There should be at least one name listed for each day….Be as creative and spontaneous as you wish…and you may choose any Scripture passage the Lord puts in your heart.
If you do not feel comfortable doing the devotions by yourself, you can join in with ONE OR TWO other people and you can divide up the devotional any way you wish.

SUNDAY…………7:30 – 8:30am
Devotions by:
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MONDAY……….7:30 – 8:30am…
Devotions by:
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TUESDAY ……..7:30 – 8:30am
Devotions by:
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WEDNESDAY….7:30 – 8:30am
Devotions by:
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THURSDAY……7:30 – 8:30am
Devotions by:
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FRIDAY………...7:00 – 8:00 am
Devotions by:
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SATURDAY…8:00 – 9:00 am
Devotions by:
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SUNDAY………ONE PERSON CAN PRAY FOR THE GROUP PRIOR TO BOARDING SHUTTLE TO THE AIRPORT.

Message from Tammy about some supplies we need

If you think you can bring any of these items, you can sing your name to it, and bring with you!!!!

We need to bring:

• 7 Soft Balls (and an air pump)(Softer than a kickball, or soccer ball, not a Nerf) 5 inches or larger each (for Elimination)
• Magnet strips or sheets (For making magnets) enough for 200 1/2 inch strips.
• Yarn, Black, Brown, and light colors
• Fruit Loops/Tootie Frooties for making necklaces out of ring cereal
• Dish Soap for Bubbles (we can get this is Panama)
• Corn Syrup for Bubbles (we can get it in Panama)
• old cards Birthday/Christmas etc. for magnets
• Brown Grocery Sacks (at least 50)
• Wrapping paper or Wall paper Construction paper
• White paper Glue (we can get it in Panama)
• Single Hole puncher
• Paper Cutter/scissors

Thank you, Everyone!!!

Historical Timeline of Panama

Hello Everyone!!
Here is some history about Panama....Please study it as you will be tested on it.....Just kidding!!!
I am sending this document by e-mail. The formatting did not allow me to post it here, and it would take too much time to change.

Packing List

Hello Fellow Missionaries!!
Here is a packing list to help you figure out what things to bring and what NOT to bring... : )

PACKING LIST

Toiletries – better to bring your favorite stuff
Kleenex (carry on size)
Tennis or sandals / walking shoes
Cotton socks
Rubber sandals for shower
After bite stick/Topical Benadryl Ointment or other insect bite treatment (mosquitoes)
Insect Repellent with DEET
Beach towels
Aloe or Icy-Hot for sunburn treatment
Women swimwear: One-piece swim suit/trunks –
Women’s clothing: t-shirts, Capri pants, pants,
shirts, blouses/T-shirts-short sleeve skirts: slightly below knee length, sun dresses
PLEASE do not wear: low neck /revealing tank tops, halter tops or cropped tops or shorts except to the beach *
PLEASE do not wear two-piece swimwear
Men and women: cotton underwear-too hot/humid for synthetics
Towels/hand/wash cloth
Bed linens
Bible
Address Book
Journal
Back pack items
Small Bible/pens/flash light/camera and plenty of film and batteries (too expensive to buy locally, and batteries do no last beyond a half hour), umbrella -rain coat not recommended – too hot), favorite prepackaged snacks –snack size– may not find them there or too expensive
Fanny pack- (If carrying more than $20.00 to buy souvenirs)
Sleeping Bag (optional)
Sunshades
Sun Screen – plenty of it
Baseball hats/ sun visors or hats/straw hats
Medicines: Pepto-Bismol Motion sickness pills, Tylenol
Prescription meds (provide leader a one week supply of your prescription meds, in the event yours get lost/damaged, etc.
Spare prescription glasses
Reading material
Drink bottled drinks ONLY – even in nice restaurants

* People watch how missionaries dress… we want to encourage modesty

SPANISH LESSON 2

About adjectives
In the English language, the adjectives are placed before the substantive. Example: A black book.


In Spanish, the adjectives are placed behind the substantive.
Example: A black book
Un (A) libro (Book) negro (black)

More examples:

A bad car --------------Un carro malo
A blue sky -------------Un cielo azul
A young man ----------Un hombre jóven
Clean water -----------Agua limpia
A new house----------- Una casa nueva
A poor woman--------- Una mujer pobre
A kind missionary------Un misionero bondadoso
A deep pond -----------Una laguna profunda (honda)
A clean plate -----------Un plato limpio
A strong man ----------Un hombre fuerte

THE USE OF THE WORD THE

In Spanish you will always use el, la, las, or los to substitute THE
EXAMPLE: The dress is very pretty
IN SPANISH IT WOULD READ: El traje es muy bonito

In Spanish you also ALWAYS use - el, la, las, or los before a noun.
Example: Remember to drink fluids between meals
IIN SPANISH IT WOULD READ: Recuerde tomar líquidos entre las comidas - and you ALSO eliminate TO before the VERB

NEW WORDS – MAKING SENTENCES
work ---trabajo --- Yo ________ en Balaton (I work in Balaton)
this ---ésta --- ________ pluma no sirve (This pen does not work)
that --- esa ---Me gusta ________ camisa (I like that shirt)
very ---muy --- Estoy ________ enferma (I am very sick)
good ---buena --- Esta medicina sabe muy ________(This medicine tastes very good)
top-- -cima, cumbre --- Hay una bandera en la _________ de la colina (There is a flag on top of the hill)
tree ---árbol --- El __________ es muy alto (The tree is very tall)
baby ---bebé --- El _________ está llorando (The baby is crying)
mountain ---montaña --- Logan vive en una alta ______(Logan lives on a high mountain)
pencil ---lápiz --- Tu necesitas sacarle punta __ _____ (You need to sharpen the pencil)
blue--- azul --- Joan tiene ojos _________ (Joan has blue eyes)
the map --- el mapa ---Yo no tengo ___ _____de Minnesota (I do not have the map of Minnesota)
and ---y --- Dani ____ Rachel son gran amigas (Dani and Rachel are great friends)
is ill --- está enferma --- Suzie___ _____________ hoy (Suzie is sick today)
the river --- el rio--- ____ _________ esta muy lejos de aquì (The river is very far from here)
street --- la calle --- Yo vivo en _____ __________ Francia (I live in Francia Street)
I --- yo --- Te dije que _____ voy a la tienda (I told you that I will go to the store)
the --- la --- _____ niña tiene ___ cabello rubio (The girl is blond)
building --- edificio --- ____ ___________ es muy grande (The building is very big)
tall --- alto alta ---El arbusto está muy ___________ (The bush is very tall)
in --- en --- Yo creo _____ milagros (I believe in miracles)

History of Religion in Panama

Please view the following page to have an idea about how religion has developed in Panama.
This is part of Country Focus of our training

http://www.prolades.com/encyclopedia/panama.html

Activities

Hello Everyone!!!!
Just a short note to tell you all that we are working on all the assignments, hopefully we will keep everyone busy in the mission field....that is one of the goals!!!
We need some info from you. Each person to write: name, skills, things you like to do, ministry area of your choice, any food allergies, especial medicines you are bringing with you for your own use - we need to make sure we carry it with us in the event yours get lost. You can submitt those to us by e-mail norkli55@yahoo.com
We also need to ask that you PLEASE donate luggage space for transport of mission supplies. We can take 2 bags each, of 50 lbs or less (correct me Joan, if I am wrong here) - we have to pay for them, but we need them.
The extent of our financial resources will determine how much we will be able to do, but these are the three ministry areas we have been planning to do:
MINISTRY AREAS:
Medical
Construction
Childrens' Ministry

PASSPORTS...................HOW IS THAT GOING???????????????
More to come!!!!
Go Team!!

Good news for the medical team!

Hello Friends,
I just talked to the secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Department of Health in Panama, and they told me that the documents were all received. They submitted them into the Department of Health today, and that they expect a "resolution" by some time next week.
Lic. Itza Brose told me that because we submitted our request early she sees no problem in us getting a license before the mission dates!!
Praise the Lord the docs were received and processed promptly out of the first office!!!
Now we need to pray they process the resolution, and send it to us also in a timely manner...
Thank you for your own promptness in getting the licenses and diplomas to us!!
Go Team!!!!
Norma

About the Spanish lesson

Hello Everyone,
This a very basic conversational Spanish.
As you can see, the text got moved around, but I hope you can still get the idea.
I will also e-mail you the document from which you can work directly on it ans save it for tuture reference.
Please give me some ideas of things you want me to work on in regards to Spanish.
I will try to give you more lessons as we go on about common introduction sentences, making some basic questions, etc.
Have fun!!
Norma

Spanish Lesson 1

SPANISH LESSON 1

The suffix ING

In Spanish, the suffix ING HAS SEVERAL EQUIVALENTS:
IENDO and YENDO – Are used with words ending in E and Z – the vowel is substituted with the suffix. The Z at the end of a word is substituted for C and the suffix is then added

ANDO, OR LLANDO – Are used with words ending in “A“ and “O” – these vowels are substituted for the suffix
Look at the following WORDS and try to match it to ONE of the following suffixes

working - traba-ja _______ * Tim está ________________ mucho hoy.
talking – ha-bla _______ * Dani está ________________con su hermana
planting – siem-bra _______ * Suzie está _______________frijoles éste año
painting – pin-ta _______* Rachel está ________________su cuarto verde
reading – le-e _______ Tammy está _____________ la lección de hoy
praying – ora _______ Katie está _______________por su abuela
studying – estu-dia ________ Andrea está____________ química
carrying - car-ga ________* Richard está _____________los libros pesados
preaching – predi-ca _______* Logan estará ______________el próximo domingo
evangelizing – evangeli-za ______ Bob está ______________ a sus vecinos
walking – cami-na _______ Joan está _____________muy lentamente
swimming – na-da ______* Tim está _______________ en las olimpiadas
sleeping – duer-me ______ Tammy está ______________por que esta cansada
running – co-rre _______ Dani está _______________más rápido que Katie
eating – co-me _______ Richard está _____________ muchos M & M’s
doing – ha-ce _______ Suzie está _______________ la devoción de hoy
suffering – su-fre _______ Rachel está _______________ un dolor de muela
crying – llo-ra ________ Katie está ______________ porque su perrito está enfermo
singing – can- ta _______ Andrea está _________________ la ópera
looking – mi-ra ________ Logan está _________________ las muchachas bonitas
diving – sal-ta ________ Norma está _______________ en la piscina
marrying – ca-sa ______* Katie se está ______________ en la Iglesia Skandia
moving – mu-da ________* Rachel se está__________________ la próxima semana
hunting – ca-za ________ Logan está ___________________ muchos venados playing (music) – to-ca _______ Richard está __________________ el saxofón muy mal
growing – cre-ce _________ Suzie está ________________ más alto que su mamá
tying – ata _________ Dani está ________________ todos los cabos sueltos
typing – te-cle-o _________ LaDonne está ________________ los reportes de español
remodeling – re-mo-de-la ________ Tim está ________________ su casa en la playa
saying- di-ce _________ Norma está _______________ que su mamá viene hoy
carrying – car-go Katie está _________________ el bebé de Raquel
saving – a-ho-rro _________* Tammy está __________________ mucho dinero

light - lighting .... luz ___________ El _____________ del puente es fabuloso
end – ending .... fin _____________ Estamos _________________ el trabajo
advance - advancing.... avance ________ Las tropas están __________ lentamente
flower – flowering ....flor __________ La rosa estará ___________ en primavera
smile – smiling ....sonrisa ________ El niño está __________ al ver su gatito
joy – enjoying.... goza ________ Estamos _________un día muy placentero
rain – raining ....lluvia __________ Está ____________ muy fuerte


* These words are ALSO nouns

hello fellow missionaries....greetings from Korea!!!

Dr. K

I am checking in to test this out.
Rich K.

Suggested Devotional

There is a suggested schedule of prayers that goes with the posted Praise and Prayer List. These two documents go together. These will help you as a devotional plan, as part of our daily focus on the Lord. Let us remember that before we attempt to minister horizontally, our vertical relationship with the Lord needs to be strong.
Have a blessed week, Dear Ones!

SUGGESTED PRAYER/DEVOTION SCHEDULE


DAY READ PRAY DAY READ PRAY
1. Acts 1 A-B-K 33. Gal. 5 - G-I-K
2. Acts 2 C-D-L 34. Gal. 6 - H-J-L
3. Acts 3 E-F-M 35. Eph. 1 - M-N-O
4. Acts 4 G-H-N 36. Eph. 2 - A-B-O
5. Acts 5 I-J-O 37. Eph. 3 - C-D-N
6. Acts 6 A-B-C 38. Eph. 4 - E-F-M
7. Acts 7 - D-G-I 39. Eph. 5- G-H-L
8. Acts 8 - E-H-O 40. Eph. 6 - I-J-K
9. Acts 9 - L-M-N 41. Phil. 1 - A-C-N
10. Acts 10 - J-F-K 42. Phil. 2 - D-G-L
11. Acts 11 - A-B-D 43. Phil. 3 - H-J-K
12. Acts 12 - C-E-F 44. Phil. 4 - B-O-E
13 Acts 13 - G-H-J 45. Col. 1 - F-I-M
14 Acts 14 - K-L-O 46. Col. 2 - A-B-N
15 Acts 15 - I-M-N 47. Col. 3 - C-D-O
16 Acts 16 - A-C-E 48. Col. 4 - E-F-H
17 Acts 17 - B-D-F
18 Acts 18 - G-I-J
19 Acts 19 - H-K-M
20 Acts 20 - L-N-O
21 Acts 21 - A-D-G
22 Acts 22 - B-E-H
23 Acts 23 - C-F- I
24 Acts 24 - J-L-N
25 Acts 25 - K-M-O
26 Acts 26 - A-B-I
27 Acts 27 - C-D-H
28 Acts 28 - E-F-G
29 Gal. 1 - J-K-O
30 Gal. 2 - L-M-N
31 Gal. 3 - A-C-E
32 Gal. 4 - B-D-F

Important Documents/Help

Hello Fellow Missionaries!!!

Grace and peace to you frem our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Please find enclosed some documents which will be useful to you in the next couple of months as we build the team and get ready to go to Panama. Please post any comments or e-mail me if you wish. Any suggestions are welcome.

You are so much in our prayers, and we are very excited anticipating our work together for the Kingdom of God.

Let us hold Tammy in prayer

Hello Everyone,
As I told you earlier, Tammy lost her dad last Monday and the funeral was yesterday.
We love her so much and we are so far away..... :( but we want her to know we think of her and pray for her and her family during her time of grief.
This is her mail address if you want to send her a card:
Tammy Buesing
2728 Linden Ave.
Slayton, MN 56172
Let us remember her in our prayers.

Hello Panama Team!!!

Greetings to you all near and far, this is the "national" training site ..... hehehehe
Our hope is to enter appropriate and useful material to help you get ready for the mission trip
We are exactly ten weeks from departure date, and there is a lot of ground to cover.

This blog is only to supplement what you have already covered inyour "Go Team Manual," and for those of you in MN, you have group training!!! You are so blessed!!
But for those of us who are spread out over the rest of the country, this is one way to stay connected as we build the team!!!

To begin with we have the preliminaries: I need feedback if you agree with these, or suggestions as to how to change it to make it what you thing it should be.... all sugestions welcome!!!

1.What is our Goal? Suggestion: "We are joining God's work in Panama."
2. What is our Motto? Suggestion: "I am willing to get out of my comfort zone for Jesus' glory."
3. What is our Key Verse? ”For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10

Please write me back about these, I will try to enter every three days... as much as possible with more stuff for you.