Greetings to you all in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God. How wonderful it is to be possessed by such a wonderful Savior.
We arrived back in Baguio yesterday, (Thursday) and it feels wonderful to be home after two months of travel. We very much enjoyed our time at home visiting with family and with the saints in different parts of the country, but there is really “no place like home”. We are looking forward to getting back into the swing of things and seeing the saints here once again. I am looking forward to teaching a home bible study again this week as well as speaking on the Lord’s Day.
October is going to be a busy month for us. In a couple of weeks we will head back down to Manila for the annual CMPI (Christian Missions in the Philippine Islands) retreat. We have missed this gathering for the last couple of years for various reasons and are looking forward to some time with other missionaries who are serving the Lord in various other location throughout the islands. Jim Fleming, who served the Lord for many years in Columbia, and is currently the Director of the Emmaus Correspondence work world wide, will be our speaker. He is also the father of our daughter Abby’s husband Daniel, so we are looking forward to spending some time together. Following the retreat Jim and Sharon will be traveling up to Baguio with us for a couple of days and then we return to Manila for the 60th anniversary of the Emmaus Correspondence work in the Philippines, which will be celebrated at the Emmaus Bible Camp in Malolos. This work was started by Cyril Brooks back in 1950 and is the largest overseas Emmaus correspondence work in the world.
Following that we will be beginning our second semester of Bible School for the assembly down in Baguio Gold on ecclesiology, as well as the regular weekday bible studies and Sunday teaching.
Be praying for all the traveling we will be doing this next month. I will have the car in the shop over the course of the next couple of weeks to have several things repaired. Please pray that the work will be done well and that the car will be back in tip top shape for these coming months. We plan, Lord willing, another trip up to Sagada soon and need the car to be in good shape before we attempt that 6 plus hour trip across the Mountain Trail.
