Hello friends,
Its well past time for another update,
however I have had limited time and very limited internet access so I
have not gotten around to writing sooner. Also because of the limited
internet access I am not sure when I will be able to post again, and
the vlog won't be updated for another few months still.
To launch right in, I am in the
Philippines now on outreach. We are in Metro Manila plus,
specifically North Caloocan. For those who didn't know, the school I
am doing is divided into two parts, lecture phase, (which is what the
last posts have been about) and outreach phase. Outreach phase is
what I am on now and it is about putting what we learned during
lecture phase into practice and sharing God with people. My outreach
is in two separate parts, for the first 44 days we are here in
Manila, then we will fly back to Australia and drive from Perth to
the Kimberly, which is northern Western Australia. It could take as
much as 5 days or more to drive from Perth to the Kimberly depending
on which routes we take and where we go. So because of the time we
need for travel I think we will only actually be in the Kimberly for
about 3 weeks.
As I said I am in Manila now. We have
quite a few different ministry opportunities here, also we do a lot
of street evangelism. The first week we were doing Bible reading and
prayer walking. So we read the entire Bible out loud in public
places. When we weren't Bible reading we were just walking the
streets and praying for God to show us what He has already been doing
in the area, and what He wants us to do. It was a good time to here
from God and also do some spiritual warfare by declaring Gods truth
over the city.
Then for the last few weeks we have
done a lot of street evangelism. Just walking around talking to
people about God and praying for people. Street evangelism is a lot
easier here then in the U.S or Australia, because people here when
they don't have anything to do will just hangout on the streets and
talk to people, also because we are white they want to talk to us. I
think street evangelism here is more effect as well both because its
less weird/less off-putting for us to just walk up to people on the
street and start talking to them, and because the people here are
actually quite open to what we have to say. So we have done a lot of
that and have prayed for a lot of people, and seen a few instant
healings. I have also handed out a few Bibles as well. YWAM doesn't
provide us with Bibles to hand out, but if we want to hand out our
personal Bibles we can. I had a quite nice leather ESV bible that I
gave away, then I have also bought several other cheaper bibles here
and gave them away as well. (so if anyone wants to donate money still
I would love to use it to hand out more Bibles, I think the
information to donate is in one of the previous blogs but you can
also just comment that you would like to provide some more finances
for ministry use and I will contact you with how to do that)
Other then street evangelism we have
had some other opportunities as well. We went to medical clinics one
day and prayed for people. That day me and my ministry partner saw
around 10 instant healings in about 2 hours. We also had one person
get healed and then want to start following God. So we got to talk to
him a lot about that, and how we knew to pray for him, and I gave him
a bible and we lead him through a salvation prayer, and gave him the
name of a good church nearby to get in contact with. We also put on a
DTS seminar which is where we invited about 12 churches to attend a
one day seminar where we attempted to fit 3 of the week long classes
we had during lecture phase into about an hour each. I think we had
nearly 200 people show up and we got to teach and pray for all of
them. We also helped at a VBS. And we did an open air with another
team where we did two skits, shared two testimonies and a gospel
message and then prayed for a bunch of people. We also go to a lot of
church services, and prayer, and worship services and Bibles studies.
We often have an opportunity to speak, or share a testimony or
something at these events. More recently we have been doing
evangelism with the churches. We will invite people from the churches
to come with us onto the streets to do evangelism, this way we can
teach/show them how to do evangelism and they can continue it after
we leave. It is also super helpful to have locals with us because
they know the area much better also even though most people here can
speak English they prefer to speak Tagalog so it is still nice to
have a translator.
We have also done many hour of
intercession for Manila. One of the members of my team also had the
opportunities to give a sermon one Sunday. So we have had a lot of
ministry opportunities and will continue to have more, and whenever
we are not doing things with the church there is always plenty of
good places to do street evangelism.
This is a shorter update then I would
usually give, and I have plenty of specific stories that I would love
to share with anyone who wants to hear more when I get back. But
unfortunately for now this is about all I have time to share.
Prayers for physical health and energy
are much needed. Also prayers that we would continue to be led by God
in ministry and accomplish what He wants done here.
Thank you all so much for reading!
