Typhoon Hits Northern Samar Islands
Typhoon Hits Northern Samar Islands of the Central Philippines! (and Masbate Island) Before Christmas on December 14th Typhoon Nona hit the several Islands and they need help. We sent 13 sacks of rice there this week to help at several of the churches. I will be traveling there this week to see the damage and trying to encourage and help some of our brethren there. It takes three days to travel there and back with an overnight in...
Merry Christmas from the Philippines!
December 2015 Merry Christmas from the Philippines! As I started writing this newsletter, a typhoon is coming! We planned to take a ship to Cebu for Mary’s birthday, but thought those plans would have to be changed. However, thanks to our Great God we were able to get to Cebu and visit Cebu Bible College again, where they surprised Mary with a birthday party including chocolate cake. Several miles behind our home in Bacolod is a...
Summertime in the Philippines
April 2015 Dear Friends and Prayer Warriors of VFM, God is doing many great things in the Philippines! Visayas Bible College We have now finished our first year at the VSL Bible College. Our very first semester, we enrolled five full time and two part time men students in the Visayas School of Leadership. Second semester, the students were involved most weekends with the Kids for Christ Ministry which works with local churches...
Happy New Year
January 2015 Greetings and Happy New Year from Negros Island! It was a very fast and furious time during the holiday season, here in the Philippines. The Island of Negros was the host of an annual youth event called YACC! This was the 41st year for the event. Each year, it moves to a different island location or province. In 2014, it was hosted by the churches on Negros and was held on a large public school campus. Over 70...
October 2014
October 16, 2014 Greetings from Bacolod City, We rejoice that we have had visitors here for the last few months sharing with us in the ministry. During the months of August and September, we had Christian Barnett from the Oakwood Christian Church in Enid, Oklahoma. He is 20 years old and spent some quality time with our Bible College students. He spoke in chapel several times and also helped at the Green Plains Education Center...
August 2014
It is certainly busy here in the Philippines! We presently have four churches in some phase of construction. Also, we have a Preschool/Sunday School classroom being built on two separate locations. Let me first tell you about the four churches under construction. Tayasan is a town where a church was started in 2012. It now has an attendance of over eighty each Sunday. A classroom/ parsonage is being built first so that the workers...
