D-day looming!

New family in Christ in Balintad singing praises!!

Well next month we leave Australia (Lord Willing) and take Jubab onto the USA to Bible College, visit our family and friends over there and then we head home to the Philippines. In 2014 we came home for 3 years for Jubab to complete his high school and that is exactly what God has allowed. He has been so gracious to us.

Translation wise:

*God has given us hugely good progress and we have reached our October goal and are completed up to John 8:40 .

*In November we will complete up to the end of John 12. Translating God’s Word has meant lots of long hours for us but it has been a joy for us to be in His word each day and we have learned SO SO much. – It has just been so good.

So where to from here: Key Dates.

November 3 – Jubab does his final HCS exam.

November through December 2 – We continue translating.

December 4-14 – We pack up our house, store our belongings and move to Brisbane.

December 15-30 – Christmas and time with friends and family.

December 29 – Fly to Detroit, Michigan, USA to take Jubab to Bible School.

From there we visit Deb’s Grandpa who is almost 95 now, Deb’s uncle, aunt and cousins and my step Mum as well as many dear friends. Then we see Jubab once again and depart for the Philippines.

Thanks for praying and giving and encouraging us in the Lord’s work. We continually praise our Lord for the family and team that He has placed us into for the work of the gospel and for the translating of God’s word into the Tala-Andig language.

We anxiously await being reunited with our Higaunon and Tala-Andig family in the Lord!

Just two months left.....

First of all, thanks so much for praying for us for yet another month. Things are going well with the translation and we hit our target of getting up to the end of John chapter 5 last month - PTL. Our target for October is to get up to and including John 8:40. There are some chapters in John that are very long. We are greatly enjoying our work as we are learning so so much and drinking it in.

We just have 2 more months of translation left before we finish up for the year. On December 4 we will begin (Lord Willing) to pack up our house and move some of our things into storage and ship the rest to the Philippines. Actually we have already begun shipping some things to the Philippines. Sometimes what we are facing seems a bit daunting but then we are reminded that we just need to complete each day what the Lord has for us. In a way we feel like we are young people again going off to the field for the first time.

Jubab has exams starting next week and they will go for 3 weeks. Please pray for him. I will paste his exam times on the end of this. For the rest of the year he will be preparing for Bible College also and then leaves us in January. 

Then a bright note on ministry in the Philippines. The scripture teachers are teaching in more than 14 schools now and many kids have been saved and are getting saved on a regular basis. Please pray for these scripture teachers (mostly women) who number over 50 – that God will use them greatly and that they will be encouraged and inspired in their work. (The ladies in the picture above are the combined scripture teaching team from the Cauyunan and Tumpagon churches.)

We also have 3 construction projects also on the boil at this time: a church kitchen on the Cauyunan Church building, an assembly area for the Migpait primary school and a church building in the village of San Miguel where there are many new believers. Please also add these construction projects to your prayer list as well that God will give safety to all the builders and that the materials will arrive at the building sites with no major hold-ups.

 Jubab’s Exam Timetable:

Oct 13, 10.20AM - Advanced English Exam 1

Oct 14, 9.25 AM  - Advanced English Exam 2

Oct 21, 1.55 PM  - Advanced Mathematics

Oct 31, 1.55 PM  - English Extension 1

Oct 31, 9.25 AM  - Physics

Nov 3,   1.55 PM  - Drama