Ronnie, Aling and their family continue to trust God as they journey
through Aling’s cancer and pain. They have seen some strange things happening.
Aling has been having a lot of pain in her lower pelvic area and recently, a
bulge started protruding through her groin and she became unable to walk. A few
days ago, this bulge opened up and drained and the bulge has disappeared so the
pain is a lot less and she feels like she may be able to start walking around
her house again soon. Aling always has either Ronnie or her eldest son
Yeng-Yeng (behind her in the picture) with her, caring for all her needs and
this has been a very precious time for their family and with the Lord Jesus.
Remember the 7 men who graduated from the bible school in Lapoc last
July? Well in the short 3 months since they graduated, the Lord has been
doing GREAT things through them. They are teaching over 1600 people in one
place and they also have over 10 followers of the Lord Jesus who have asked to
be trained as Evangelists and Bible teachers as they also want to help with
spreading the Good News and they have been busy training and discipling these
up and coming Evangelists. We can do nothing but shake our heads in amazement
at what God is doing. He is opening up doors that we never even dreamed would
be opened!
Mourning is going on in the church at Tinaytayan as one of their church
family was murdered yesterday and the relatives of the murderer are also part
of the church family so things are very difficult at the moment for the church
in Tinaytayan. Please pray for Max and Dodong who are the church elders there.
They need much wisdom, boldness and grace to keep the church in unity and
focused on the Lord Jesus in the midst of such a terrible trial.
School children are not only hearing the Gospel and getting saved but
they are also being discipled and taught key doctrines in scripture to help
them grow and to teach them to follow Jesus and obey all of His ways.
Yesterday, the scripture teachers in Lapoc spent a whole day training and
studying their new scripture lesson plan on the book of Acts. How we praise God
for the vision and the passion He has given the scripture teachers that they
desire to see the children they teach, not only saved but also grounded in the
Word! What hope there is for the children in Lapoc and the surrounding areas, like these twins girls
(photo above), born recently in Colawingon, who will grow up with a Gospel
witness!(The two ladies in the photo holding the twins are RI teachers who have been faithfully teaching scripture in schools for many years.)
Last month, the believers in Cauyunan sent a delegation to Sinicabog
with an offering that they had collected to pay for a church building that the
believers in Sinicabog need but cannot afford to pay for themselves. The
generosity and the sacrificial giving of the Cauyunan church is a great tribute
to the working of the Holy Spirit among them.
How can we begin to praise God for the Great Things He has
done and is doing? We feel like John who said, “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of
them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books
that would be written.” John 21:25 The work of Jesus is continuing through His Body!
