The young people in Tumpagon and
Cauyunan took this photo as they were on their way to a Youth Fellowship
gathering to be held at a place upriver. Out of many photos I have seen
recently from back home in the Philippines, this photo stirred my heart the
most and pricked my eyelids with tears.
Why?
Because we have walked this same path
hundreds of times. We walked this path to go upriver hunting trees to build our
first house in Cauyunan, we walked up this path to go to Lindaban to swim, to
have numerous picnics with our Cauyunan family, to speak about Christ to people
out in their fields, to have baptisms of hundreds of believers, to hike to
Kalamalamahan and to Limondà for outreach and for baptisms.....this path has
soaked up the sweat and tears of many of our brothers and sisters pouring out
their hearts and lives for our Lord Jesus!
WE LOVE THIS PATH!!!!
And we are going back there SOON - under
the will and pleasure of our Lord - to walk these paths again with our brothers
and sisters, to drip with sweat (far away from the ocean breezes of Ballina J), to serve
where we can and to try to keep up even though our knees are feebler now.
Possibly about this time next year and armed with the New Testament that will
be 85+% done by then!
Translation Report Insert:
January goal met – Thanks Lord!! And thanks
everyone for upholding us in prayer.
February goal – Complete Hebrews, Begin 1 Peter and
get to 1 Peter 3:12 by the end of Feb.
THANK YOU for your
prayers!!!
