In just 8 more days – on March 6 – we will be heading off to
the Philippines for a 10 day trip to meet with all the church leaders from all
the areas of the work, to complete yearly paperwork required by the Philippine
government and also to start setting up infrastructure for our new phase of
ministry in Mindanao which will begin once Jubab leaves for Bible College and
we head back to the field full-time – Yes!! Jubab is off to Bible College at
the beginning of next year!
Our room is covered in bags of things we need to take over –
mostly equipment and things that will be left there for the work. There is
still a lot of preparation that needs to take place over this next 8 days
before we leave so we greatly value your prayers for us over this time and
especially for each of the days we are in the Philippines. Of course the joy of
seeing all our family again – Jen and Udi and our grandkids, Bubuy and Wila and
each of Jubab’s brothers and their families – is going to be one of the
highlights for us and we can’t wait to just grab them and hug them.
Did we ever tell you about the story in the picture above,
which happened on our last trip to the Philippines? Someone made a lovely chili
dish in Tumpagon for a fellowship dinner at the church, knowing how much Paul
loves chilies. But Paul didn’t realize how concentrated the chili was and it
was so potent that he almost passed out. Here he is on the floor of the church,
while all of us are trying to revive him – They piled lots of ice on top of his
stomach J.
Hopefully this won’t happen next week although once Paul revived, we couldn’t
stop laughing for ages!
We greatly cherish your partnership and prayers!
