Wendy Rees Latin America Regional Literacy Coordinator 
during a surge of unrest in Bolivia. For the month of October Jerry and Joyce McDaniels and I had been invited to the missionary training center to team teach the literacy module for missionary trainees. This was the last chance for the graduating class of ‘08 to receive orientation in the indispensable but complex task of developing reading programs with tribal groups in their own languages. Then when we heard that there was a window of opportunity during peace negotiations, we were able to reschedule our flights for one week later. "We’re going… we’re not going… we’re going after all!" God (re)opened the door for us.
If the Center’s seven would-be missionaries are to hope for any success in planting tribal churches that mature into God-honoring, evangelistic bodies, they’ll need to assure that as many members as possible are enabled to participate in the life and function of those churches and are given personal access to the Word of God. The introduction and practical application they’re given in the missionary training program and through our interaction with them should help them to open these doors for unreached people groups. Jerry and Joyce regaled us with accounts of how God deluged them hungry hearts in Panama’s Kuna tribe, and of how the wedding of tribal language literacy, evangelism and pastor training brought a harvest of souls, as well as a revival in "old school" Kuna churches.
Also attending our workshop were missionary training center staff members Elizabeth Copa and Judy Gill. This course has been or will be their responsibility too, so they participated for the sake of inspiration and updates. I may even get the privilege of teaming up with them the next time the workshop is offered–so the plan goes at the moment.
Pray that when these trainees graduate, their home churches will get behind them 100% and speed them on their way to the waiting mission fields.
