The Willis Family
Missionaries to Panama
May 10, 2012
Dear Friends,
We began clases in our Bible
College on March 12, 2012 and
God has blessed us with a total
of 29 students. Please pray for
each of these students that they
remain faithful in their studies
and that God would provide for
their needs while in class five
days a week. We need preachers
to come and teach!
We thank the Lord for each and every person that prays for us and for our ministries. God is always good to us and He always
helps us during our trials and we praise Him for all the victories He gives us. Thanks to you we continually see the Lords’
blessings upon our ministries. We trust the Lord is blessing you and keeping you as you serve Him. God bless you.
As you may see in the picture above, God has blessed us with a great group in our college this year. We have three students from
the country of Honduras and five students from other churches here in Panama. We are excited to see how these out of town
students are able to get jobs and how God provides for them to be able to provide for their needs. We are also placing students in
different churches on Saturdays and Sundays so that they can get some “hands on” practice in the ministry.
God is teaching us patience through the building permit we are striving to get to build the new Children’s and Girl’s Home. We
are now required to do an environmental study before they will give us our building permit. Please pray we may have this permit
by the end of May. Thanks to all of you who have given us a total of over $28,000.00 so we can get started on this home. We will
need at least $100,000.00 to be able to finish the first phase of this Home so we can move into it. The landlord of the house we
have at this time has asked us to vacate the house by the end of September. We REALLY need your prayers and help so we can
build the new home and move into it. Please be one of those giving $1,000.00 or more towards this project. We have a church
coming from the USA the end of June that will be helping us build the Home and they will bring $20,000.00 to invest in it.
We had a wonderful Easter week hosting a Singles Conference. This is the second year we have a conference for singles to come
together. This is a conference for adult singles and it is an opportunity for them to meet other singles and to be taught Biblical
principles that will help them have good relationships and eventually marriages. We had over 80 singles in this conference. God
blessed us with 1,100 in Sunday School on Easter Sunday! Our regular attendance is close to 800 every Sunday.
Our missionaries in Bucaramanga, Columbia are doing well. They have already 8 families attending their services and God has
blessed them with a good place to meet. Please pray for the Morales family as they strive to reach more and more people for
Christ. They are now trying to raise the funds to build a baptistery to baptize the group they have ready and willing to be baptized.
If you would like to support this family in Columbia you are can do so by sending the support to The Morales Family and mailing
it to Open Door Baptist Church, which is our sending church.
May God bless you and thank you for taking time to read this letter, pray for us and for sending us support every month. If you
would like for me to come and visit your church just call me and I can fly up and be with you. My contact information is below
and I would love to come and share with you what God is doing here in Panama.
In His Service,
Thank you for your faithful support and offerings the months of Feb. $________; Mar. $________; Apr. $_______
Byron and Briceida Willis
Stateside Address:
Open Door Baptist Church
1212 S. Belt Line Rd.
Mesquite, TX 75149
Church Website: www.iglesiabautistabiblicadedavid.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel. 011-507-6501-7595 or 316-869-0196
Family Website: www.willismissionaries.org
Orphanage Website: www.mannapanama.com
Field Address
Apdo. 0426-00583
David, Chiriqui
Rep. of Panama