Well, we leave for the airport in a couple hours to fly to Thailand. Steve will leave tomorrow for his LONG drive to northern Luzon. Steve will be home on the 7th or 8th; the kids and I will be home on the 12th. Please pray for safe travels, good health and for these trips to bring glory to God. Here is some excerpts from our last update so you remember where it is we are going and how you can pray specifically. Thanks!
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We recently sent a letter to a remote mountain village 20 hours north of our house, the village where my (Jen’s) parents worked when I was a small child. There is now a thriving church up there, and we asked for their help. We challenged them to send a few men down to the Agta villages where we are working to teach some discipleship truths to the new Agta believers. Who better to teach them these truths than other tribal believers? Please pray that God would give clear guidance to the Ilongot believers to help them know if they should partner with us by sending some men down to encourage the new believers here. If He leads them that way, pray that they would be faithful to obey. It is our prayer that the Ilongot church would send 3-5 men down here for 2 weeks in February to encourage the Agta church. Please also pray for the many details – logistics and finances – that would need to be worked out to make this a reality.
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Steve is planning to travel up to the Ilongot villages 20 hours north of here to do a church planting training February 3 -- 8 in the tribal church there. He will bring several new Agta believers with him from down here to help with the training and so that they can see a vibrant tribal church and realize the potential when God is at the center – even if they are “just tribal” as they have been told all their lives. Please pray that the 7-8 Agta believers who go with Steve would be blessed beyond measure and grow leaps and bounds in their faith during the trip.
Steve is planning to travel up to the Ilongot villages 20 hours north of here to do a church planting training February 3 -- 8 in the tribal church there. He will bring several new Agta believers with him from down here to help with the training and so that they can see a vibrant tribal church and realize the potential when God is at the center – even if they are “just tribal” as they have been told all their lives. Please pray that the 7-8 Agta believers who go with Steve would be blessed beyond measure and grow leaps and bounds in their faith during the trip.
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While Steve travels up into the mountains to do this training, Jen, Mikayla, Zach and Megan (our long-term volunteer) will be traveling to Thailand for our annual home school conference. At the conference, the kids will take their IOWA tests, get reacquainted with old friends, and get the opportunity to sit in a “real” classroom with a “real” teacher. Please pray for safe travel, good health, and that the kids would stay focused and do their best on their tests. Please pray for Ben too as he will be staying with friends in Manila for the week while his family travels all over the place.
While Steve travels up into the mountains to do this training, Jen, Mikayla, Zach and Megan (our long-term volunteer) will be traveling to Thailand for our annual home school conference. At the conference, the kids will take their IOWA tests, get reacquainted with old friends, and get the opportunity to sit in a “real” classroom with a “real” teacher. Please pray for safe travel, good health, and that the kids would stay focused and do their best on their tests. Please pray for Ben too as he will be staying with friends in Manila for the week while his family travels all over the place.
2 comments:
Wow, I haven't been online to check your blog in a couple of weeks and there was so much to catch up on! Hope you all have safe and fun travels in all 3 directions that you'll be going in. Wish we were more centrally located so we could keep Ben for the week. :-) Loved all the pics down below. You guys look great! We're thinking of you! xoxo
Hey, will you guys be anywhere near us when in T-land next week?
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