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We are in the midst of big changes in our Panama project and we wanted you to know what is going on.

As you should know, we have been working at a university, UDELAS since March. The semester is ending there and the students are now taking final exams. Most of our readers are UDELAS students and they are have many the end of the semester pressures, so it is difficult for them to continue with our reading sessions. We ended our project there on Friday. During our 4 months at the university we had reading sessions with about 45 different people, many of them were with us the whole time. We also got to work with two other LST teams at that location. There are a few of those readers that we will continue to meet with. Some ongoing through July and August and others that we will reschedule in August.

Now, I'm sure you are curious what's next for us. Today we spent the day at a local high school organizing our next project. It is the high school where our church meets on Sundays. We will spend the next three weeks meeting with students from that school during the day and then at night we will try to meet with some of our current readers. We spent today at the school organizing the schedule and meeting the students. Tomorrow we hope to begin reading sessions. Although we don't usually prefer to work with high schoolers, we know that this will be a great project. These are great students who are very excited about practicing their English and we hope to get them excited about Jesus, too. Another reason this is an exciting project is the impact it will have on the congregation we worship with. They really want to reach out to the community of the school and this is one way to do that. Greg and I are so glad to do something to bless this church that has been so good to us!