New leadership......new trainee bible teachers!

There is always something new that God is doing.........and recently God gave two new leaders,

Max Luminda and Dodong Inanod,

who are being acknowledged here as elders in the Tinaytayan church.  

God also keeps raising up new co-workers in the work of the Gospel

and recently, quite a number of women began training

to help with the school ministries and women’s ministries.

Their babies and young children don’t mind tagging along with

Mum to training time.

Some of these ladies are pregnant,

one was getting married on the weekend,

others had to walk a long way, one is widowed and in her 60’s.

From all walks of life these ladies come with a desire to have a part

in serving the Lord through these ministries.  

We really praise God for new church leaders, for new trainees and most

of all, for His compassions and mercies which are new every morning!

Always Pray And Do Not Lose Heart.........Luke 18:1

Always pray and do not lose heart.......Luke 18:1

Here are some of the reasons why Jesus may have told us this:

THE FOUR SURRENDEREES are still listening every week to the Word and their hunger is

 visibly growing week by week.  They meet with their families in Remy’s home,

he is the one in the picture above with Paul. Please keep praying for their salvation!

THE OUTREACH AT TALID-TALID has born fruit! A baby church has been born there of about 23

men and women - many of them ex-criminals - who now belong to our Lord Jesus.

Please keep praying for their spiritual growth and for them to spread the Good News amongst others.

DONDON IS SLOWLY GAINING STRENGTH and in spite of two more times in ICU and one afternoon

when the doctors readied the electric paddles as his heart-beat was so weak they were sure it was going to stop, 

God preserved him and he has had over a month now without having to be re-admitted to hospital!

Amazingly too, he is now eating well and feels stronger in himself.

What can we say but just, ‘THANK YOU LORD JESUS!!’

BEN AND LEONIE TART have decided that God wants them to return to Lapoc for the 2013 school

year to teach Jubab for a 3rd year. This is a huge answer to prayer for us.  Thank You Lord!!

THE BOOK OF PHILIPPIANS IS ALMOST COMPLETED and we thank you for praying with us as we

translate the Tala-Andig New Testament and praise our God for each new precious book that we complete!

Currently we are doing the final check on Phil. 4:13-23.

Banging! Banging! Banging!

Why all the banging?

It is the sound of building, building and more building!

Please PRAY for the ongoing building projects and PRAISE for the newly finished ones!

We built 2 covered assembly areas for the schools of Lapoc and 
Lirongan, which open onto a stage area with a back stage area 
as well that doubles up as a small classroom. The above is half way
 through building and the finished product is below. 
They were just completed last month.

Projects like these promote good-will

towards the Gospel in these remote

communities!

As a result of the relationships we have with the schools, we are able to teach almost 4,000 kids from the Word each week – HUGE!!! Many of these kids have been saved and many are now filtering into our church youth group and meetings. The kids also have infrastructure to learn in which is a real blessing to them. For example in these 2 schools they did not have much shelter or anywhere to have their lunches or hold assemblies. Now they do J.

As well as having recently finished these two building projects for the schools with the help of a work team from Australia (thanks so much guys!), Paul has also recently finished another school room for the school in Colawingon and he still has four major building projects currently on the boil – a new clinic in Cauyunan and three church buildings for the believers in Lantod, Masimag and Tinongtongan.

Phew! What a marathon! Four more major building projects to complete over the coming months and all the massive effort these take in terms of planning and getting the building materials onto the building sites over extremely rough and boggy (at times) roads.

Please pray for wisdom for Paul as he oversees these building projects, and also for strength because each building takes a chunk of his time and gives him its own unique set of headaches: like the vehicle delivering the roofing and cement to Cauyunan for the clinic getting stuck two days ago in the middle of the river crossing and in danger of being washed away if the rain came before it could be dug out. (Thankfully God held back the rain!)

Paul needs your prayers:

·         For wisdom and strength.

·         For safety for his teams of builders.

·         For safe delivery of all his building materials.

·         For rest and peace of his busy mind even in the midst of busyness.

·         For wise division of his time amongst his various ministries.

·         For freshness and joy in his leadership of our missionary team and discipleship of the church leadership team.

·         For time to play. (Mostly with his almost 14 year old son! Sometimes with the grandkids who will soon be 4!  Yes! Jen is expecting our number 4 grandchild!)

·         For refreshment from the Word.

·         For hours needed on the translation work.