I stand, I stand in awe of You!
Holy God to whom all praise is due,
I stand in awe of You!
God has been so faithful to me in this week and a half! He has been opening doors that I couldn't have imagined on Wednesday as I sat crying, overwhelmed by it all. Dottie Peoples sings, "He's an on-time God, yes He is. He may not come when you want Him, but He'll be there right on time." Boy, has God shown me that in a powerful way in this class.
On Monday, Rachael and I had no contacts. We had some good leads as to hang out spots and we had identified a Panamanian restaurant (Kelso's - I highly recommend it!) and a grocery store, but no real contacts that we could go back to and get information from. Finding Panamanians is a tough job. For starters, many of those who have immigrated to the U.S. look a lot like people from the Caribbean and West Indies. They may or may not speak Spanish and they tend to be more suspicious of outsiders. You can see why we would have a hard time nailing down who is a Panamanian and who isn't.
On Wednesday, the Lord blessed us to make contact with two people. The first person was a woman who lived next door to the address we had for one of the Panamanian organizations in the Brooklyn area. She gave us some good information and she even told us where we could possibly find the CEO of the organization we were looking for. In fact, she directed us to his home! Rachael and I went over there (we are not stalkers, just excellent researchers!) and guess what... He was home! In fact, he had just gotten home from Panama! I don't know about you, but I totally see God's hand all in that.
Today, God opened up even more doors for Rachael and I. Yesterday, when I was doing some online searches for Panamanian organizations, I found the website of one particular one that gave the names and numbers of all those on the committee. I called those numbers today, and everyone that I made contact with was very willing to help us with our research. There were even people who were willing to refer me to other people and give me their contact info. Wow! I just feel like we've had a major breakthrough... it's great!
We met up with the rest of the group at 6 for dinner... well, actually it was only about half of the rest of the group, but whatever...
We went to an Italian restaurant and had some amazing Italian food. Our next stop was Yogurtland. It was my first time there and I absolutely loved it... man, I can already see that if I told you all of the fun things that happened tonight I'd be writing for a while... I don't want to bore my readers...
I'll just wrap it up by saying the rest of the night was filled with laughs and theological discussions. I am so amazed at the peace of God and how He orchestrates things in our lives. To God be the glory for the things He has done!
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