Greeting to you all once again, this time from Manila. This past week was an interesting one in several aspects. As a storm raced through, just north of us, again we received the backlash of monsoon rains which caused several landslides on many of the roads and trails throughout the mountains.
In a mining village near-by 14 were killed as the earth gave way beneath them. So the trail up to Lowakan Atamok remains closed to us and we have not been able to have a bible study there now for several weeks.
The study on Tuesday was cancelled because the home we meet in had water flowing through it on Monday and they were still cleaning up. Wednesday’s meeting at the chapel went on well, and a good group was out, the rains having subsided by Tuesday afternoon. Thursday evening, I started out up the road that winds from our house to the chapel and the fog was so bad that I needed to turn around and go home, so I missed the study on Thursday, the rains began again in earnest that evening.
We traveled down to Manila on Friday morning and encountered several landslides along the way, many of which left rather large boulders in our path. But the crews were out clearing a single lane so that all were passable by the time we arrived. Our trip to Manila was without incident, for which we thank the Lord. We have traveled down here for the last regular appointment that Joyce has with her doctors. If all is well we will not need to see any of them for another six months, which would be wonderful.
We spent the weekend with Kim and Larry, and I get tired just watching them and all the responsibilities they have as dorm parents at Faith Academy. They had such a full weekend!! But they are doing well and seem well adjusted now to life at Faith.
I had opportunity to speak at the assembly in Cogeo on the Lord’s day. It was good to see them all again. In spite of some problems they are continuing to look to the Lord for His strength.
We head back to Baguio tomorrow morning and have studies scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday this week, if the weather co-operates. We are anxious to get back over to Atamok, so please keep that in your prayers.
Thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedules to read these short updates. We know you are praying, and that is such an encouragement to us. Ken
