FSM Bentonville Panama 2024
March 15, 2024 to March 23, 2024
David, Panama
Fellowship Bentonville will take a spring break mission trip into the coastal jungles of Panama to share the Gospel with the Ngobe people group. The overall purpose is 1) to mature and grow the Ngobe church, and 2) to mature the participating students with a powerful mission experience in a New Testament environment.
The Ngobe are an indigenous people group in Panama that, in partnership with the Bugle people, have a semi-autonomous reservation (the Ngobe-Bugle Comarca). The Comarca is sparsely populated and generally has high rates of poverty and infrastructure combined with low rates of education and income. Much of the living in the Comarca is subsistence based. The parts of the Comarca near other provinces have more infrastructure and more churches. The coastal region is especially sparse and churches there have only had about a decade to mature. Mamatata (local animistic and ancestral worship) is still the prevailing religion in the coastal region.
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