Panama

Description

Panama is a land that bridges continents and connects oceans. The Panama Canal provides not only a trade waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but also a land bridge between North and South America.

Panama was inhabited by indigenous tribes before Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century. It broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama separated from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Canal to be completed by the United States between 1904 and 1914.

Panama has a few Indians tribes, included the Guaymi Indians with a population of about 300,000. Many located in the area where we are ministering to start new churches.


Facts

President: Laurentino Cortizo

Language: Spanish 93%, Indian Languages 7%

Currency: American Dollar

Main Sport: Soccer

Figures

Population: 3.8 Million

Land Area: 29,119 Sq Mi

Unemployment Rate: 6.5 %

Population Under Poverty Line: 18.7 %

Faith

Roman Catholic: 70%

Evangelical: 20%

Other: 10%

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These leaders with experience join us to receive supervision for their ministry or initiative from a Ministry Coordinator. They can raise support through us, and their financial accounts are accessed ten (10) percent administrative fee.

These leaders are just starting a new ministry or initiative and commit to having a mentor to oversee them. They can raise support through us, and their financial accounts are accessed five (5) percent administrative fee.

These leaders from established organizations or ministries partner with us, but their own board supervises them. They can raise support through us, and their financial accounts are accessed five (5) percent administrative fee.

Each church is independent and autonomous and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that, therefore, Church and State must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from the dictation or patronage of the other.

We believe that a visible church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, buried with Him in baptism and associated for worship, work and fellowship.

We believe that to these visible churches were committed for observance “until He comes,” the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper; and that God has laid upon these churches the task of persuading a lost world to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and to enthrone Him as Lord and Master. We believe that righteous living, good works and proper social concern are essential products of the gospel.

We believe, therefore, that those who accept Christ as their Lord and Savior will rejoice forever in God’s presence and those who refuse to accept Christ as Lord and Savior will be forever separated from God.
We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, His high priestly intercession for His people and His personal, visible return to the world according to His promise.