Here, There & Everywhere

Actually, most of the last couple of months have not included much "here" time at all - pretty much we've been "there" and "everywhere". :)
In partnership with a Filipino Christian counseling group, Steve traveled to one of the Bugkalot areas to host a training for pastors & wives in how to do member care for those in their churches. It was well-attended, and we are praying that God will use it in big ways.

We also traveled as a couple to the mountain city of Baguio to help with a pre-field training for people from the nations (from Taiwan & India in this case) who are going to the nations to share His message there. Steve taught a couple of days on discipleship, and I taught on the importance of culture & language study for effective cross-cultural ministry. We can't show you pics of the participants due to security concerns where they will be serving, but the picture below is from the practicum time when they learned the words for several different objects (flower, stick, stone, etc), using the language-learning technique we studied.

Steve also got to meet with the seminary president while we were there.

We also traveled to the island of Mindanao for a 2-fold trip. First, we helped to coordinate & teach a "goers conference" for those who feel God is calling them to GO to the nations - kind of a next steps training and talking about what life on the field is like. 

Please pray with us for the 16 "goers" who are praying through what God has for them in the future and learning to step out in faith (picture includes others who helped host the conference). 

From there, we traveled to another area of the island to Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center and met up with some of our Global Empowerment teammates there for some meetings and trainings about coffee plantations & other agricultural techniques and breakthroughs that have been proven helpful on the livelihood side of the work. 

We are so thankful for the many opportunities to be involved in what HE is doing, but we are feeling the wear & tear from so many miles in a short amount of time (you'll see the next posts I share also talk about other travels during this busy time). We appreciate your prayers for strength & perseverance.