Friday, January 24, 2014

No Wi-fii all day.  

Men were up and off to construction before 8 AM.   The following pictures were taken by Stan..I believe of the 2nd family's home that was basically finished up.....

 

 

 

 

Liz, Donna and I went for bakery rolls and a fried egg at Jollibee's for breakfast.   We'd planned to do some shopping at the market for a food basket for the above pictured family whose house got built--but Pastor Revie and Brent came and were were off to Maya again with Alma and Jamalyn. 

Our first stop was the community where we met on a covered platform (which may eventually get concrete block partial walls, plywood upper walls and a better roof).  

  Just had to brush off chicken and goat droppings for a place to sit down.     Sarah shared on assurance, Marj shared on prayer and Bible reading, while I shared on obedience and baptism.  Donna shared on  Christ's example of baptism.    Liz and the sisters taught the children songs and taught from a children's Bible the story of Jesus' baptism.






 

Further on the way up to Maya, we stopped at the church where Pastor Revie's father pastors.   Several men were working on new parsonages.

  

Then on to the largest home(that we'd visited)  in the Maya Community that had specifically asked us back.   Lunch was fixed by the women:  pork, pancita, rice, fish and carrots in ginger sauce.     Sharing was as we had earlier in the day.  Liz took the kids next door and shared with them.   There was lots of discussion at this home.  Three sisters and a sister-in-law, I believe have husbands who are seamen working on ships or else on oil rigs.   There will be a baptism for those interested in this community that we shared with in the future.     We were given a bread snack and 7 -up before we took off.   We stopped at a beach enroute south back to Bogo--the sisters missing Florida's beaches!!!

  

 The area we stopped evidenced damaged boats mostly due to coconut trees coming down on them.

Upon return to Bogo City, Liz and Donna went to the market to get food for the family whose home the men built.  Since God blessed our team, we determined what was left after all current and expected expenses for our trip and then distributed the money between envelopes for fulltime staff and gifts for 5 projected church plants.  We met at the Grace Driven Church about 7 PM for a delicious meal prepared by Pastor Revie's mother.   We viewed a slide show of some of the pictures taken from our 2 weeks there.  We were all given small gifts and then we gave our gifts.   
  

Our two weeks there included two evangelistic film showings, 2 houses being built, 15 cluster CPE meetings which will be ongoing Bible studies once a week after we leave, not a current number of decisions made available yet.           Deeply impacted by the compassion and passion that Brent and the pastors have for the people who are helpless and lost and hopeless.  They have worked tirelessly since the typhoon and continue to work hard.   They will never abandon the people!!