Return to Panama. Again
Front entrance It's hard to believe that our 3rd trip to Panama has come and gone already. We've been anticipating it for about a year. Tickets and hotel stay were purchased in the early spring. The thought of children actually living now at Casa Providencia was just so exciting. The team Those first two trips had involved trying to help prepare the building in order to receive children. The first trip it was clear that unless God intervened, it would never happen. But visiting other orphanages where special needs children were housed, made it clear that it needed to happen. The second trip was amazing to see how much more had been done, but it was evident there was still much that needed to be done (including having more than one functioning bathroom!) I had to fight back tears on more than one occasion,beginning when we entered the building. A bright, welcoming interior was just the first confirmation that God had indeed intervened and w...