Rapidly-Growing Panama City Suburb Needs Churches
Update: January 2023
The tent church for Panama City suburb, La Nueva Esperanza de Arraiján, was completed in late 2022.
Original Story:
The area around Panama City is changing rapidly, as the government is spending vast amounts of money to relocate people from city to country and vice versa. They’re building new housing, highways, and railway lines in an area southwest of the city.
Some members of Pastora Dalia Viveros’ church, whom we’ve worked with for three years, are planning to plant a church in one of these growing areas. Virtually no churches exist in this region called La Nueva Esperanza de Arraiján.
From left to right: People coming to meeting at La Nueva Esperanza de Arraijan, meeting in progress, and Pastora Dalia praying for young lady at meeting
To facilitate this new church, we will purchase and install a new tent, of the same type and size YKPM has previously supplied to ministries in Central America. We always include seating and other amenities, such as a sound system to give these brothers and sisters in the Lord a running start. With God behind the efforts, it is hoped that someday the church will grow to a point where a bricks and mortar facility will be the group’s next step.
Facts about Panama
Population: Four million, half of whom live in country’s capital, Panama City
Casco Viejo, which means “old town” in Spanish, is a neighborhood within Panama City that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with several old ruins; it is also the first European city built in the Pacific Coast of the Americas in 1519
El Chorrillo, the impoverished neighborhood within Panama City, is next door to Casco Viejo
While Panama is regarded as a high-income economy, it is still home to significant income and resource inequalities
Panama does not have a national law for an overarching child protective system
Jungles cover 40% of Panama’s land area and are home to many tropical plants and animals, some not found anywhere else in the world
FUN FACT: Panama’s highest point in the country, Volcan Baru, is the only place in the world you can see the sun rise on the Atlantic and set on the Pacific
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