Ministry/ Team Activities
This past week has been packed full of awesome ministry opportunities. We had our usual daily schedules which 
consisted of: Jackie and Colleen helping teach at the elementary school, Danny and Kyle working on the sewage project, and Sarah and Lindsey spending time at the Children’s Home taking care of the kids and playing with them. We were also able to take the children swimming a couple times and attend a fun clown visit at the school. Jackie, Lindsey, and Colleen were able to bake and decorate Christmas cookies one day with the younger children from the Children’s Home, while Danny and Kyle took the older boys bowling. Sarah was able to go to a high school rugby tournament all day and spend time with the high school girls she has been getting to know. On our day off, we were able to go visit a market which was a really fun experience. It has been an awesome week, and we are so thankful for all of the opportunities the Lord has provided for us.
Coming Up
Our team along with DJ and Rachel, our hosts, are planning to take a trip next weekend to Corregidor Island, an important island in defending Manila during WW2. We will take an early
morning ferry and tour the island during the day checking out previous battle grounds and ruins, swimming and hiking and sleeping overnight on the beach there.
Besides going to Corregidor, we will be continuing our regular jobs teaching, helping at the children’s home and working on building a septic tank for the community. We are very sad that our time is coming to a close here. This is our last full week before the rest of our squad joins us on December 19. Even though we will be excited to see them, their coming means that our time here is ending and we have to say goodbye to all of our friends and our community here.
Prayer Requests
God is awesome. We seem to be reminded of this almost everyday. He is working in so many different ways in all of our lives. It exciting to be here still relatively in the beginning of 
this thing. Thank you all for your prayers as they are definitely felt. Whether is our prayers for brokeness, or our prayers for team unity, or our prayers for finances, God has been covering us in His grace and answering our prayers. So really… Thank you.
Pray that God will continue to reveal himself to us, that we would seek Him first, and that we would continue to become completely dependant on Him.
Huge Praise that all of us seem to be feeling much better. There still may be some lingering sickness but thank you for the prayers.
Please continue to pray for the people we are working with. Jeff Long and his family, D.J. And Rachel, Kim and Sherwin’s family.
There are 8 new children coming into the children’s home we are working with. Please pray that these kids will adjust quickly.
Pray for encouragement and support amongst our team. We are not doing a lot of our ministry 
as a team though there are some thing we get to do together. Pray that we can support each other however God is using us, and through through us and on us.
It seems like our team has been very fatigued this month. It has been hard to over come. Please pray for God’s strength to be present in us in a physical sense.
Huge praise for Colleen and her finances. God has done some incredible things in the last week.
Sarah’s foot is hurting lately. Please pray for its healing.
Pray that as we are growing God will bestow us with wisdom and discernment.
Our prayer go out to our friends and family affected by the shooting at New Life Church in Colorado.
Cultural Quirkiness
We heard a new spin on why we eat rice with every meal here in the Philippines. We had a 
pizza and ice cream party for a group of the boys from the Children’s home. 8 boys under the age of 11 ate 3 large pizzas and quart of ice cream. They headed up the street for devotions. An hour later, they were called the kitchen and served another full plate of rice and chicken adobo. We were floored; where could these tiny people possibly be putting yet more food. We asked the staff and the reply was this, “unless a Pilipino eats rice, they are never full.” It doesn’t matter how much or what variety of food they eat… there will always be rice.
