Great News From The Basak School

It has been two weeks now since the Elementary School in Basak with 20 classrooms of young students, opened their doors to the teaching of God's Word. This is the amazing report from the women who God is using as His mouthpieces in that school – Quote:

"Our time at Basak has been so good. The children are listening well. The teachers are very welcoming. We teach twice and after we come out of our first classes, the teachers have us go to the office and they serve us coffee and snacks and they really go to expense for us. We have told them not to prepare snacks for us all the time as it will become a hassle for them but they told us that it was the least that they could do in return for the Spiritual truths that the children will come to know through us. The teachers are so happy and two of the lady teachers have bought bibles from us and even the school principle has ordered a bible from us. Last Friday was our second time to teach there and the principle didn't have us write our names in his logbook because he said, 'We don't consider you visitors anymore because we are partners.' We are so happy with how things are going in Basak!"

Please pray for the school teachers of the Basak Elementary School who are in the top picture, and also pray for these wonderful scripture teachers who are teaching the Word each week in the school. Their names (left to right) are: Marie, Gang-Gang, Nanah, Yen-Yen, Lorna, Jie-Jie, Christian, Aiza, Ann-Ann and Judy. 

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Exciting news!!!!!

Exciting news this month! Heart-stopping news!!!!

Remember Kaulayanan? That village waaaaaaayyyyyy up the top of a mountain that we struggled to the top of in February, 2008, with the hopes of making an agreement with the village leaders to send a team in there to live and to preach the Gospel. We already had two families from the Lapoc church who had committed to move up there so that they could reach this area with the Good News about Jesus. But to our disappointment, the door there was slammed firmly in our faces and we felt pretty sad and discouraged as we travelled home late that afternoon and into the evening.

Well God has opened doors there in a different way!!!! God is the one who is continually knocking on people's hearts, continually seeking..... as we have been learning in 2 Corinthians (like in ch 5:19-21) which is the hardest book of the New Testament that we have translated so far. You might be saying, "Quick - tell us in a nutshell what this heart-stopping news is!" Well, it started unfolding a couple of weeks ago when a bunch of school teachers turned up at our place in Lapoc. Not many of the team were home as the ladies were all out teaching scripture in the schools, but they talked to Rodil and said that they had come to ask for scripture teachers to come and teach the Bible in their school in Basak.

In Basak!!!!! Many of the children from Kaulayanan go to school in Basak!!! Our first thought when we heard this news was to praise God that He has opened a way for the Gospel to reach Kaulayanan - through the school children!!!

It is great timing as the scripture teachers in Lapoc have been busy multiplying themselves and training others to be teachers of the Word and just last Saturday they had a special lunch to commemorate a year of hard work and study that these ladies have put in so that they can become proficient at teaching children the Gospel and in helping them to grow in Jesus.

 The team who will be taking the Gospel to the school children at Basak will be made up from ladies in this picture, including some of the 8 newly graduated ladies who are holding their certificates. They start tomorrow - October 2nd - and they need lots of prayer. Please pray for them: for endurance through all the bumps in the road ahead, for them to continually look to the Lord for the patience, focus and zeal that they will need, for both teachers and students in the twenty class-rooms at Basak to be greatly blessed through their ministry.  Pray especially for the new ones that they will quickly overcome any timidity or fear and grow courageous and bold in the Lord.

The Lord helped us greatly through the month of September to achieve our goal of finishing up to and including 2 Corinthians 4! This was in spite of Paul's nasal surgery (septoplasty and turbinoplasty) which resulted in a painful week of recovery.

This month of October, the goal is to finish up to and also including 2 Cor 12:10. Please continue to PRAY, PRAY, PRAY for this!!! We are so delighted and thankful for the progress in spite of the many hard hours of mental, physical and spiritual strain in achieving this.

Some Prayer and Praise Points:

               1. Please pray for the elders and bible teachers in the Dulangan churches as they look to the Lord to show them where to reach out, that doors will open before them for the Gospel.

               2. Please pray for the weekly outreach to Gawgawon which has been tough going for the teams from Tumpagon and Cauyunan.

               3. Praise for the many new believers in our Lord Jesus at the banana plantations and ask for wisdom for those heading up the teaching that they will have wisdom for the next step.

               4. For our family - pray that all three of us will walk in the joy of the Lord, that Jubab will have great wisdom and encouragement and diligence as he starts his HSC subjects this term, that we will have tender hearts all the time to the Lord's leading.

               5. Please pray for Dad as he continues to go through the renal cancer. He is very anaemic and has had blood transfusions, but it seems the problem might be due to side-effects from the chemo.