New Outreach Efforts

During the past 4 weeks something has been bringing excitement into the church: our outreaches. Our Bonbon outreach will start to construct their meeting place, a modest, makeshift place, where they will do Bible studies, seminars, music practice and other activities. We challenged the church people to give and to ask donations from non-Christian friends as well. The response was amazing. We were able to raise over P20,000 plus plenty of GI sheets (for roofing) and lumber. We hope to start this week.

Then God finally answered our prayers to have a Bible study in Barangay Taligaman where Marichu's family and relatives live. Three Saturdays ago we finally begun! A number of volunteers also committed themselves to help in this outreach, Tobey and Marichu (organizing, preparing), Mabel and Jenny (to teach children), Ate Tess (praying for youth), Auntie Cely, Auntie Dida, and Dadang.

Below are fotos of our 1st and 3rd Bible study. On the 3rd Bible study we already had 40 children and 7 adults. Praise the Lord! See also sidebar for more fotos.

But this is not all. On August 29 ate Bernadette (attendee of Auntie Cely's Bible study) invited us to go to their house in Carmen (a town 1 hour away) so we can start Bible study will all her relatives there! Please join us in prayer that the Lord will also open a door for the Gospel in that place so that they, too, will become obedient followers of Jesus and become agents of His kingdom there.