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Many churches that are established in mission settings fail to take root and become indiginous. While there are different reasons for this phenomonon, the main obstacles in the Panamanian churches has been a lack of independance and inproper organization and leadership. The apostle Paul tells us to be careful how we build. We are also told that God organized His church with elders, deacons, teachers, ministers etc. so that she would be fully equipped. When we ignore or fail to implement that blueprint, the church cannot function as designed. One of our goals is to assist struggling congregations in setting in order that which is lacking, and in the Panamanian churches that seems to be leadership. We achieve this goal by helping churches equip men to lead. The three congregations with Elders in the Republic of Panamá those in which we have conducted leadership training seminars. |