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Yesterday we left the city, rode on the roof of a jeepney for two hours, and ministered in the remote, mountain village of Lambunao. This was a day of true challenges and successes. We are expecting to minister in the afternoon, when we arrived we found out we were ministering right away. We were expecting to minister to about 30-40 kids, we ended up ministering to around 150 kids. It was an amazing day of stretching and growing, and learning how God can use us even when we are not fully ready. Christ makes us ready, all we need to do is to make ourselves available.

The internship continues to be an incredible time of impartation and ministry. We ministered at a prison and a house church . Praise the Lord, several people made decisions for Christ at the house church! We have also been blessed to have our Vice-president of Field Ministries, Tim Lovelace , here in Iloilo. He has been teaching internship classes and imparting blessing and vision into the lives of all of us here in Iloilo. We are sad to see him go, knowing that when he comes he is always a huge blessing. To send him off in grand style we did karaoke at a local KTV club:

Friday night the interns were blessed to minister at Full Gospel Center Church youth service. Two of our interns gave testimonies and Pastor Rianne gave a stirring message about moving deeper and greater into what God has for you. It was amazing how the two testimonies lined up exactly to his message, even though we had no prior knowledge of his message. As always it is amazing to see the Holy Spirit work.

Leaping off the Leadership Development post, I have some somewhat sad news. Chris and the kids will be leaving for the States this Saturday. They leave for Manila on Friday, and then fly onward to the States on Saturday, arriving in Baltimore around midnight (Maryland time) Saturday evening. Why is this sad? My responsibilities with the internship require me to say in Iloilo until the internship is completed. I will be returning to the States March 23. We have never been apart as a family for so long. Honestly I am very much not looking forward to being away from my family. I am not looking at this as a "break" from my kids so I can finally do some "real ministry." I am willing to fulfill my responsibilities here in Iloilo, especially as it involves training future full-time missionaries. However, I am not at all looking forward to being apart from my most favorite people in the world. The reason why Chris needs to leave for the States at this time is beca...

If someone were to ask us our primary ministry, I would answer with two words: leadership development. Yes, we are still actively ministering with Camp Sonshine and the street kids, Chris is still serving the preschool and the scholarship program, and I am still involved in Bible schools. However, the common denominator to all of these ministry opportunities is leadership development, in other words, helping others succeed. Another way to describe this: making disciples. We have begun our second internship here in Iloilo. We are training seven future missionaries. This current batch is somewaht unique in that we have two married couples, and one of the couples has a four month old baby. So this is what we will be up to these next few months.

. . . internship. You may remember this is our second internship . More to come.