Date for Panama Trek 2012 Set

November 23 - December 9, 2012 are the dates for this years Trek to Panama. While several of our regular Trekkers are considering this trip, I am happy to announce that Alan W., one of MTI's Board Members, is planning to come. Alan is a linguist and is familiar with the local Embera language used by the people we will be working with. I am also looking forward to working with the Tulio Rosales family this year. Tulio and Norelia are Embera Panamians who have been on staff with Youth With A Mission for several years now. It has been my privilege to work with them in past Panama Treks.

The Embera People are one of nine Indigenous Indian Groups that live in the country of Panama. They have rich traditions and cultural ways. Here is a link to a video of some of the song and dance of the Embera people. It features Tulio and some of the women from his village Errebache.

PLANNING FOR PANAMA TREK 2012

It is looking like the Panama Trek this year will be in the fall, either early November or early December. Our Trek so far has never taken us to the Darien Jungle. I would like to go there this year. Hopefully with my friend, Tulio, as our guide. The Darien is located on the extreme eastern end of the Republic of Panama. The last 30-50 miles of jungle before Colombia has few roads and travel is mostly by river canoe. I am currently in a conversation with my contacts in Panama about the trip.

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Contact andrew@goodimpressions.us for more information about Panama Trek 2012 or Mission Trek.

Panama Trek 2011 Ministry DVD Available!

Contact Andrew Burnett, andrew@goodimpressions if you would like a copy.

Video Report from Panama Trek 2011

Here's the latest on our trip to Panama

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Panama Trek 2011 - July 16th -31st

Check out the brochure for this years Panama Trek. We will be spending a week in the Darien Jungle village of Yavisa with Alex and Jennifer Cabezon working with the Wounaan Indigenous People. Then we will fly to the San Blas islands and spend a week working with the Kuna People on the tiny islands of Nargana and Isle Tigre. Click on the image for a larger printable version.

For more information contact:

Andrew Burnett, Director

Mission Trek International

7112 NE Emerson St.

Portland, OR 97218

andrew@goodimpressions.us

503-256-2043

Life in an Embera Village in Panama

Check out MTV "Exiled" where 18 year old Cher spends one week in the Embera Village of San Juan. This is a village that MTI trekers have visited in the past. In fact this episode was filmed the same year we visited so many of the villagers are familiar. Here's the link:

EXILED with Cher



BTW - the young girls who help Cher through the process were students that live in the Home that Alex and Jennifer Cabezon started. That's why their english is so good.

Dave Johanson, Andrew Burnett and Jess Fahland strike a pose in San Juan village.