Greetings to you all. Thank you so much for your prayers and for checking in on this site from time to time to keep updated as to our activities for the Lord.
We traveled up to Baguio once again last week in order to get some work done on the new place. It began raining on Monday afternoon after we arrived and continued to rain almost non stop for the next seven days. Super Typhoon Egay (Cat 5) was swirling in the Philippine Sea off the east coast and moving North toward Taiwan. It never made landfall in the Philippines but greatly enhanced the South West Monsoon rains and dumps several inches on the main island of Luzon. This caused several landslides on the roads leading out of Baguio and some bad flooding in the lowlands. We had planned on leaving Baguio on Friday morning but due to the conditions we had to extent until the rains subsided. We were finally able to pull out at 5:15 Monday morning. The trip down Kennon Road was absolutely beautiful. The rains had caused all the rivers to swell producing, what seemed to be, hundreds of waterfalls of various sizes. Some which actually fell over the road and had to be driven through. We arrived safely home in the late morning hours, thankful to the Lord for once again giving us safety as we traveled.
While in Baguio we were able to once again meet with the saints there both on Wednesday night and Sunday morning. I was asked to speak at both meetings and was glad to do so.
Rebecca Coburn arrived from Pennsylvania on Thursday the 23rd and will be staying with us for the next six weeks. She is a delightful young lady and will be doing some student teaching at Faith Academy. She is a much needed PE teacher. Pray for her that this experience would both be helpful for Faith Academy and may be a learning and rewarding experience for her. She will be staying until October 9th. We will be moving up to Baguio on October 13th.
Things, for us, are going well. We continue to study Ilokano twice a week and are busy speaking in the local assemblies. Our hearts continue to yearn for the mountains, both for Baguio and beyond. To finally be settled into a place we can call “home” and to be able to finally unpack all our things will be a blessing.
I am scheduled to speak in Cogeo this tomorrow on the Lord’s Day. Next week I will be speaking in Angono in the morning then traveling quickly over to Cogeo, once again, for their anniversary celebration. Since we served the Lord in that assembly for many years they have asked if I would come and baptize several new believers, which of course I am delighted to do.
Thanks for all your prayers and support. The Lord has blessed us and challenged us in the work here. We look forward with grant anticipation to what He will do in the mountains.
