At the same time as CIEMAL have been hosting us in Panama, they've also been hosts to a short-term youth missionary group from Brazil. We had the pleasure of joining them in La Chorrera (an area about an hour away from Panama City) while they worked with the local children (and our two girls!) Many of the group members are planning longer-term missionary trips to places where the Church is persecuted, such as Syria and Nigeria.
As part of our training in Panama, we've been participating in some workshops run by the Iglesia Evangélica Metodista de Panamá , in which professors from FATEO in Brazil have been teaching topics such as Wesleyan Theology within the Latin American context. The theology has been challenging, but not quite as much as the 3 hour mix of Spanish and Portuguese :)