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Puerto Galera

So here I am in the month of March already…wow! As I shared with you in my first blog (Philippino Pet Monkey) for the month of February… it was going to be a month with so many opportunities to help those on Puerto Galera Island. So I would like to share with you some of these opportunities…not so much with words, but through pictures. My hearts desire is that you will feel as if you were part of my experience for the remaining time here in the  Philippines…enjoy!
 
This two-story building is where we attended and participated in Wednesday & Sunday services and where we played basketball.

 

 
This is land which we were clearing out in order to prepare for future building(s) in the near future…possibly for a school. 

 
 

This is the beach where we built relationships and shared/showed

Love of CHRIST.

 

 
This is my muslim friend James, whom I had the opportunity to share JESUS with. He was trying to sell me a cross, but it still had JESUS on it, but it gave me the opportunity to share with him why JESUS shouldn’t be on the cross at all. And that was because CHRIST was crucified, buried in the tomb and three days later rose from the grave to over come & forgive us of our sin. And because of this HE overcame death and went up to heaven to prepare a place for all who accept HIM by faith. Therefore, HE is no longer dead but alive! A couple days later, James showed up with a couple of crosses w/out JESUS on them…encouraging me that he believed & understood what I had shared with him!

 


This is my dear muslim friend Abdul, whom I had the privilege to share JESUS with and hang out with a lot. He came to accept CHRIST and I was humbled to play a small part in this. I will truly miss him, but will one day look forward to be reunited with him in Heaven!

 


Within the community we stayed at…there were a lot of kids that we had the chance to play & hang out with…very tiring, but lots of fun!

 



One of the many ways to connect with the community was to help build a place where everyone could come and hang out. Who knew we could do so with some palm trees and a little paint!

 



Besides reaching out to the community within where we lived, we also had the opportunity to visit, encouraged & pray with those Christians outside of Aninuan Church. One such person was a pastor of another church. He had some sort of chronic disease and so Jake, Jim and myself prayed for & over him. We found out the next day that he wasn’t having any more pain and that he was totally healed…wow!

 


I leave you with a group of all of us celebrating with each other of what GOD did through us this month…glory be to HIM!

 
 

 This is a small glimpse allowing you to look in to the window of what I had the blessing to be a part of this month. I hope you are encouraged, just as I am! I also wanted to share with you that for the last two weeks of February, I was and am still not doing well spiritually…I felt and feel very unmotivated and dry in my walk with GOD. I don’t know what else to tell you about this, other than that this is only for a season, which I believe GOD is preparing me to go deeper with HIM. And this may also be a part of preparation for China this month which we will be leaving this Saturday, March 5th. And Speaking of China, I want to share with you that for the rest of this month our whole squad is on an internet fast. This is for the respect & safety of our contacts that we will be serving & working with this month. On our end, there is nothing to be worried about, in regards to our safety, etc. In closing, you will not here from me until the beginning of April. Remember…no news is good news! Continue to keep me and my squad in your prayers…GOD is going to use us mightily in China…to HIM be all the glory!

Love,
Derek