Next month Candy, Tessa and I will be going to Laoag City in the Philippines for a mission trip. We’d like to share what we’ll be doing and ask you to remember us in your prayers.
Partnering the churches in Northern Philippines
When our team leader Sharon was at the Lausanne conference in Cape Town last year, she met Pastor Ojie from the Philippines, who invited her to consider sending a team to help in his city, Laoag. So when we set a team goal to minister on an overseas project, Laoag city was in our prayers. This June we’ll be partnering Pastor Ojie and his network of pastors in that city.
In this PDF newsletter you’ll learn more about why we are going on this project. Please read it: it’s brief, informative and rather attractive :)
Learning to develop an evangelistic music program
A key ministry tool we’re using is our music band Forerunner, which will perform the culture’s pop songs interwoven with our personal stories. Through this we’ll bring forth God’s story of his unconditional love and our need for Jesus’ work. My responsibility on this trip, besides being keyboardist and vocalist, is to develop the concert programs to minister to the various target audiences.
Prayer pointers
- Focus, discipline and enlarged capacity as we intensify music rehearsals, work on personal stories and tighten our evangelistic program in the remaining 18 days till we fly
- It’s Tessa’s first overseas trip – we’re excited she is going with us, but we’re nervous about how she and Asher (another team baby) will cope with the warm climate and different environment. Please pray also that they will take well to the several hours journey by plane and transit.
- God will provide the funds needed 1.
- Details in our team newsletter here ↩
