And the Adventure Begins!

Well, we are on the road again. I am typing this from Manila, but on Tuesday we will be headed up into the mountains in northern Luzon (just south of where that big typhoon came through this wk). We will be camping there off and on for the next month. Why, you might ask, are we going to go camp in a remote village with our family where we have to bathe & wash clothes in the river, haul water for drinking & cooking, and our bathroom situation is still as of yet undertermined? Well, the Bogkalot tribal people up there are really close to being ready to send out some of their very own to partner with us to reach the Agta! We will be doing some training and mobilizing and just helping them think through all of this. The Bogkalot church has really seemed to catch the vision for this; but there is a difference between catching the vision and people actually stepping forward to GO. This takes a lot of courage and a lot of faith, and it is a huge step. Please pray with us that this next month would be the time - that several Bogkalot believers would step forward and say, "We will go!"

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Also, pls be praying for good health for our family as good medical care will be far away and for safe travels as we will be on some rough roads recently battered by the typhoon. We will not have cell signal or internet up in the village, so our contact with the outside world (you all!) will be limited. But if you have time to drop us a note while we are up there, it would be hugely encouraging to have it waiting for us when we come back down to "civilization". We will miss you all!