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Timothy Internship Program Iloilo, Philippines 2013 from David Anasco . We have successfully completed another Timothy Internship Program. This was our fifth internship in Iloilo, Philippines. Many of our interns have gone on to full-time missionary service. We are blessed to be changing lives who will change nations.

Where were you on March 28, 1995? I know exactly where I was on that day. I was in the Philippines then, in a remote area of Mindanao called Tagoloan, near the bigger city of Cagayan de Oro. I was in the Philippines on a missions internship, working as an associate pastor with a network of local churches. A man approached me telling me that he has been instructed to inform me that I needed to be at the airport in Cagayan de Oro at a certain time that afternoon, I was to meet an arriving passenger (I had no idea who, but I was told that the arriving passenger would know me), and there I would receive further instructions. It all sounded kind of mysterious to me, but I told the stranger that I would be at the airport at the assigned time. The pastors I was working with agreed to accompany me. I went about my business of the day. We were starting to work on doing Camp Sonshine with the churches there. I had counselor training in the morning, and then we were going to visit with s...

2012 was yet another amazing year for our family.      Eric started working at a local coffee shop ministry called FUEL . Eric is a volunteer, learning barista skills. Chris started ministering along side Go To Nations missionaries Natalie Mattes and Yolanda Ortega , working with them at the San Isidro Relocation village and also at the Calajunan city trash dump site.   Of course she continues to work with the Sonshine Center and the preschool and the scholarship program.   We start every year with our Timothy Internship Program. This year we had our largest batch ever, fifteen interns .    Here are eight of them on a trisikad, I think they could fit at least one more. Of course we continued to work with Camp Sonshine Philippines and the summer camps. Once again,we ministered to over 1,000 kids.   Eric, Faithy, and Danny are not campers anymore, they are assistant counselors, helping with games . . . helping with crafts . . .    helping lead assembly . . .   hel...

San Isidro is one of the sites in Iloilo where hundreds of families have been relocated. Most of the families were moved there after Typhoon Frank flooded areas of Iloilo in 2008. Since that time, Go To Nations  missionaries have been working in San Isidro to help the families in the community. I have been blessed to join Natalie Mattes every Thursday in the community. We spend much of our time walking around the community meeting people, praying for families and tutoring some of the children.    This past Sunday I was able to join the CHE visitor graduation ceremony and Christmas party. CHE stands for Community Health Evangelism- it is a program designed to educate the community on healthy living and growing spiritually. The great thing about the program is that it is organized and run by the people in the community.    Ma'am Rose is a CHE trainer and pastor of a weekly Bible Study in San Isidro.  She has been faithfully serving in San Isidro since the work started there. ...

In about two months, the next Timothy Internship Program (TIP)-Iloilo, Philippines will begin. This is one of the most rewarding and challenging aspects of our missionary life. To refresh your memory, TIP is a ten week internship where we train future full time missionaries. We have directed four internships here in Iloilo so far. Of the interns who have participated in these four internships, many are now full time missionaries with Go To Nations, currently serving on the foreign mission field. Natalie Mattes serves with us here in Iloilo. She has a heart to reach the people of the San Isidro Relocation Village. She labors there weekly, doing community development, a livelihood project, and she is also helping plant a local church in that village. Christine joins Natalie each Thursday to minister at the village. Natalie oversees a tutoring program for the street kids of the Sonshine Center and she helps lead worship at her local church. She is also a graduate stud...

Some pictures from a recent family vacation, first Bangkok, Thailand: and beautiful Boracay Island, Philippines:

I know many of you hold our family tight in prayer. For that we are so thankful. As you pray, could you make this declaration over us, our family, and our ministry? "Thank you Lord for the missionaries and their families. We ask that You would: Encourage them by Your Word and promises. Give them understanding, wisdom, insight and FRESH revelation. Help them to be strong in supernatural strength and ability. May signs and wonders follow them wherever they go. We pray for open doors of ministry, necessary visa’s, permits and extraordinary language aptitude. Give divine favor and connections. Open doors that no man can shut and make the impossible, possible. Comfort them in times of loneliness. Give them friends and relationships with like hearted people. Lift them above every obstacle that appears before them. Give them dreams in the night seasons from Your heart. We cut off every assignment from the enemy and we speak breakthrough in every area that is cau...