Cauyunan Youth Ministry

Missions and Community Development

Mario, Flor and baby Hezekiah......!

Introducing Mario and Flor Talo and baby Hezekiah! The Dulangan Higaunon churches are sending out yet another missionary family!!!

The elders of the Tumpagon and Cauyunan churches are supervising their preparation and also getting ready to start building their house in Balintad which is the area they are being sent to. The church plant in Balintad was founded by Udi, our son-in-law along with his fellow-workers, Roel and Nelmar, but they are passing the work on to Mario and Flor as they want a family to be assigned full-time to this area to bring the church on to maturity as well as to start church plants in the surrounding areas.

They are a gifted and steady young couple, equipped for the job they are being sent to and we believe that we will see much fruit from their lives. Please uphold them in prayer!

In the past couple of weeks, five of our churches have been affected by a peace and order situation which is causing a lot of difficulty. Mothers and fathers have been unable to do their normal work on their farms as it is unsafe so the food-supply has been cut off or made very scarce. This past week we were able to send 20 sacks (1,000Kg or 2,200LBS) of rice up to that area which has helped and there was quite a bit of fun involved in divvying the rice out as you can see from these photos below! Please pray for the churches in these areas as they exercise caution together with faith in our Lord’s protection for them during these uncertain and trying times.

The last bit of news before we close is that we are just about 2 months away now from having the Talaandig New Testament ready to take up to the printer!!! The last revisions and checking have been going awesome and we just ask that you KEEP PRAYING PLEASE for this!!

We are so thankful for each of you – our God-given team members and co-workers in the work of the Gospel!

Rainbows and freedom......

Love this picture!

In the Talaandig and Higaonon beliefs here, you weren't allowed to point to a rainbow or your finger would rot. You hid the kids in your house in terror whenever a rainbow appeared.

What freedom in Christ to know it is His gift - this is one of our new bible teachers pointing with lots of fingers to the rainbow who is now in total freedom!

How Satan tries to defile the rainbow in different ways in different countries!

Man ai Video

First meeting in Man-ai.....!

Wonderful news and wonderful answer to prayer!!!! 

God did amazing things last Saturday in Man-ai!!

People started arriving as early as 7 am, and by the designated starting time of 9 am, the church building was pretty packed! There were over 100 new adults who came to hear the Word and many, many youth also and many children who all sat down the front and were so excited! All up there were about 250-300 present.

It was a thrill to watch their awe as they saw the Word of God up on the power point in their own language and listened to Paul speaking in their own mother tongue! It was also a thrill watching the two young missionary families serve and care for all these people who they had been visiting and building friendships with since they first moved to Man-ai in August.

Seeing the finished product of the last 5 months of building was a real thrill for us! The church meeting hall is upstairs and the downstairs is the two apartments for our new missionary families so that they can take advantage of the rain water off the roof that is collected in the tank.
There is more news and a video Lord willing to follow soon….but please keep praying for Man-ai and for Jerrum and Aybi and also Nonon and Jie-jie, the missionaries there. Every Saturday at 9 am, they will be teaching Gospel lessons to the people of Man-ai. Pray for a great harvest there for the Lord!

                    Thank you for your prayers!!

Some of the past month in pictures......

A computer seminar was held in Lapoc which was a great help for the administrators in our churches to acquire new skills which will stream-line their work!

Johnny is at a hospital along with about 6 other children needing corrective surgery like his. Please pray for him and for wisdom for us as we help.

And the ladies in the churches continue to do acts of kindness and hospitality…..!! Cooking and helping and feeding lots of people.

These things, other things and lots of translation work have filled our month!