CHALLENGES PART 1

1.     I think that serving someone maybe it can be really easy but when it comes to be a servant is were the tough things comes. Be a servant of God means that we have to give everything that we are. It doesn’t matter were God is sending you, if you are in the right path and in his will then everything will go fine. I think that we can serve someone but the difference is with love. We have to have love for that person to serve them well. We need to have love for all of them but love because God loved us first and that’s why we can serve others with love.

2.     On this trip I will like: to learn how to love someone that I barely know. For God to show me that He is there with me all the time and to learn to trust more in him because I know he has the control of everything.

3.     Preparing for this trip I think God is telling me to be the example for those teenager. The example that they don’t have, the example that they need. They need someone of their own age to guide them to the right path and they need that person. I want to help another people and I know how in needy they are. I want to be the person that they see as an example :D

COMMITMENTS PART 1

I have no disagreement with any of these. I think all of them are really necessary and useful on a short-term mission trip

EXPRESING LIFE AT THE MARGIN PART 2

It is amazing how I here you can see a lot of racism, and we need to learn from this because we cant judge someone because of their color. I think we all know about this and we are all good people that don’t judge other because of how they look. Obviously we are going to see different people in Mancora but we need to be calm and really open minded to every situation. We cant make us the center of attention because we are there to serve others and we cant be there just judging because of the clothe or what color they are. We need to be serving other people and accepting them because they were created by the image of God, so by the fact it is beautiful.

COMMITMENTS

I WILL respect the locals and the church I serve by not talking about them in demanding ways.

I WILL probe the incogruity of poverty and joy

I WILL raise awarness of new experiences that contradict previuos observations, interpretations or expectations

I WILL train as hard as i can to develop their christian development

I WILL pray every night about the mission trip

I WILL be open minded with whatever obstacles come and try to make them posibly to conquer

I WILL show the love of jesus christ through me to my brother and sister in Mancora

I WILL be prepared to be on jesus side for the spiritual battle that is going to be happening when we are in Mancora

I WILL pray every night for God to give me straingth to move on every day that I am there and never get unfocused to what he wants for me to be doind over their

I WILL help someone that is in need in watever thing

objectives & outcomes = ME

I desire from the bottom of my heart that God can work in my life and work through me! I want him to take control of my life and do his will over in Peru. I want God to use each one of y gifts to his glory and to his kingdom. I want to grow more in my relationship with God by also I want for him to help me in every step I do and for Him to be there with me when I fall and when I accomplish something for his kingdom. I want to be the example that in Peru they are looking for. I want for the people in Peru to see the love of God through me and to grow more with a relationship with God and to believe that He is alive and of his amazing love and for them to see that they can trust in him and give all their problems to Him and He will listen and help them whenever they ask for a hand. I just want to help the people to know who God really , but I dont want to do it by my own strength. I want God to use me and be through Him that I can speak and talk to those people about God. That God be the one who works in my life.

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I disagree with the one that says: "We cannot truly serve those we do not know and love." I dont agree with that because because you can serve someone and help someone serving them eventhough you don't full love them or know them. We are going to a mission trip and we need to be open with the people and they are going to come with their open hearts and because we dont know them that dosn't means that we cant serve them. I say that we need to treat them like they treat us and we can serve them fully because they are looking for that, for a frindship and for someone to give them love and to be with them at every moment. Because we dont know them that dosn't mean that we cant be with them showing them love.

I agree with:

1- "Mission is about living in light of our position as image-bearers of God. Its about giving people a living picture of who God is, what He cares about, and how He acts." 

2- "We most no go overseas to do something we aren't already doing in our own country"

3- "Our level of interest in and commitment to connecting with the culture as a whole will directly shape how well we do our work in subtle but profound ways"

I think that these are really good because we go to Peru to serve God and to be his desciples in this world. We need to show the love of God through our actions and how we behave around our christian brothers and sisters of Peru. 

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Prayer Request

If you can pray for me to have more time to do my home works and to finish hard at school that I have less than a month to graduate :D.

To have more time for my solo time and to read the Bible, because I get really late to my house and I am really tired so i go to bed. :S

To have less fights or no FIGHTS (will be better) with my mom, we fight for everything :(. SO for our relationship to grow and get better in some how.

THANKS :P

assumptions

I agree with the second one that says: We must not go oversees to do something we aren't already doing in our own neighborhood. I think that is really true and i like the idea. I learned it 2 years ago when the first mission trip was to go to Guatemala and the pastor over there sayed that and I was really impressed because we dont need to go to another country to talk about him and all he can do to the peoples life and how awesome he is and all about his amazing love. We can do that HERE in our own country and most of the people think that they have to go to another country were they have to talk the truth but in our own country we also have people and a lot that need Jesus and his mercy and love. So my vision has changed. First I need to do what i am gonna do there at Peru here in Panama and then I can go to Peru and do what i am doing here in Panama.

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