Greetings to you all in the precious name of our wonderful Savior, He whose grace knows know limits and love knows no depths. It is wonderful to have such a Savior. Like one wave after another breaks on the shore, so does His grace and love without ceasing.
I was saddened by the home call of three brothers in the Lord this week and last. Last week my dear friend David Van der Noot went home to be with the Lord he loves and served so faithfully. I will always remember his zeal for evangelism and will continue to hear his voice singing, “Thank you Lord for saving my soul….” But, we know that he is rejoicing with his blessed Lord even as we type these words.
Following that we learned of the death of Noel, a brother whose family have been a special part of our lives for so many years. His suffering is past and He beholds now the face of the Savior who loved him and gave Himself for him. We will be attending services for him later today. (Tuesday).
We had planned while we were in Manila to visit today with Chito, a brother in the Lord who has been a part of the assembly in Baguio over the years. He was an active evangelist and recently sought to train and equip the saints at Navy Base to share their faith. The lessons he taught them and his active example encouraged many. We learned yesterday that the Lord has also seen fit to call him home to his reward. “O Lord Jesus how long, how long ere we shout the glad song, Christ returneth, Hallelujah, hallelujah Amen…”
We are extending our stay in the Manila area in order to visit with the families here who have lost loved ones. We plan, Lord willing to return to Baguio on Wednesday or Thursday as the Lord leads.
We were able to visit with Phil and Mary Parsons at the worship and celebration of the Lord’s grace and provision for the newest building at Faith Academy. It was such a wonderful time of true worship and thanksgiving to our wonderful Lord. It was great to briefly visit with Phil and Mary as well.
We also had the privilege of spending time with Marc and Rosa Grant as they were visiting the Philippines as well. They also are dear friends that we have known for many years it was good to see them again.
The work in Baguio continues to go well. This week there will be studies on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, as well as visiting and a study on Saturday afternoon. I will be speaking the next two Sunday mornings at Navy Base on Zechariah 3 and 4. The mini Bible schools for both Navy Base and Baguio Gold will be beginning soon as well, so please keep those things in your prayers.
We had a brief visit with Kim and Larry and the grandkids in order to celebrate Abby’s 2nd birthday. They are all doing well, and well immersed in the work of being dorm parents, which is an all consuming work.
Joyce is doing well, and we thank you all for your continued prayer for her, and for the work the Lord has placed in our hands.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Update, Sep 29, 2008 In Manila
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
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
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Update - September 19, 2008
It has been another full week and we are rejoicing in the Lord. The study on Tuesday went well, one of the young brothers lead the study on Faith and did a very commendable job. He is a brother that is showing a lot of potential for the Lord, and we are all encouraging him as he continues to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our blessed Lord. He is active in almost every aspect of the assembly from the music ministry, co-running the Youth Group, teaching on Sundays once a month, doing evangelism, as well as teaching some of the weekly studies. He has been a blessing.
The study on Wednesday night went well and the attendance was very good. After a study on persecution from the letter to the church in Symrna, we divided into six groups of 5 or 6 and had a good time of prayer. This time was followed by an “eatn’ meeting” where the fellowship just continued on for another 45 minutes or so. It is such a blessing to our hearts to be in fellowship with such a wonderful assembly of the Lord’s people.
Thursday night we had another study at the home of one of the saints who lives up near Mines View. Florie’s husband is home from his work overseas in the Cayman Islands, so while he is at home we will have studies at their home. He is a believer in the Lord and these studies are to encourage him in the faith while he is home.
Saturday we will have another study, Lord willing, up at Mines View. This study, as I have mentioned in the past, is sometimes cancelled because of rain. The venue is an open venue and the heavy rains make it impossible to hold the study.
Tuesday we were out doing some visitation with the saints. We were able to visit a couple of the families from the assembly who were unable to get out to meeting the last couple of weeks. We trust it was an encouraging time for them.
Sunday I will be speaking twice in the morning. Teaching first, once again, in the second and third chapter of Acts, then I will be teaching on the Natural, the Carnal, and the Spiritual man at the Family Bible Hour. Pray that the Lord would encourage and challenge His people, for His glory.
At the end of next week we will be heading down to Manila once again for a check up for Joyce and I will be speaking at the assembly in Cogeo, where we served the Lord for many years.
Thank you for your prayers.
The study on Wednesday night went well and the attendance was very good. After a study on persecution from the letter to the church in Symrna, we divided into six groups of 5 or 6 and had a good time of prayer. This time was followed by an “eatn’ meeting” where the fellowship just continued on for another 45 minutes or so. It is such a blessing to our hearts to be in fellowship with such a wonderful assembly of the Lord’s people.
Thursday night we had another study at the home of one of the saints who lives up near Mines View. Florie’s husband is home from his work overseas in the Cayman Islands, so while he is at home we will have studies at their home. He is a believer in the Lord and these studies are to encourage him in the faith while he is home.
Saturday we will have another study, Lord willing, up at Mines View. This study, as I have mentioned in the past, is sometimes cancelled because of rain. The venue is an open venue and the heavy rains make it impossible to hold the study.
Tuesday we were out doing some visitation with the saints. We were able to visit a couple of the families from the assembly who were unable to get out to meeting the last couple of weeks. We trust it was an encouraging time for them.
Sunday I will be speaking twice in the morning. Teaching first, once again, in the second and third chapter of Acts, then I will be teaching on the Natural, the Carnal, and the Spiritual man at the Family Bible Hour. Pray that the Lord would encourage and challenge His people, for His glory.
At the end of next week we will be heading down to Manila once again for a check up for Joyce and I will be speaking at the assembly in Cogeo, where we served the Lord for many years.
Thank you for your prayers.
Sep 19, 2008 Pics
Study Group at the Jaleco home.
Bong playing and singing praise to the Lord, following the Wednesday night study.
Fellowship following Wednesday night study and prayer time
Fellowship time
Joyce, Larnni and Nora
Wini and Josie, full time worker at the assembly at Navy Base
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Update September 11, 2008
The weekly studies are going well. While at the Tuesday night study at Mines View the woman who hosts the study received a phone call from the hospital to tell her that her teenage daughter had collapsed and was in the ER at a local hospital. So, obviously, the study stopped and we all rushed down to the hospital. Her daughter, evidently, had had an asthmatic attack and in the panic that that can bring on began to hyperventilate, which caused her to pass out. She was a bit tense still when we arrived but began to settle down and within an hour was released. She was out last night at the Wednesday night prayer meeting and bible study, but will be going to the doctors today for a check up.
The Friday evening, and Saturday afternoon studies will proceed this week as scheduled. Both have those who attend who do not know the Lord, so please be praying as the Gospel goes out to them. Pray also for those who attend who have been away from the Lord that the Lord might use this time to speak to their hearts as well.
This Sunday and next I will be teaching at Navy Base, then the last Sunday of the month we will be down in Manila and I will be teaching, Lord willing, at the assembly in Cogeo, where we served the Lord for many years.
We will begin hosting a couples fellowship at our place starting next month, are looking forward to that time. We so enjoy having the saints visit us.
Larry and Kim have been sick this past week and still have not recovered. Both are experiencing stomach and intestinal discomfort and all that goes with that. We are not certain at this time what is causing it, so please keep them in your prayers. The grandkids are fine, and are not showing any of the same symptoms, pray that that would continue to be the case. Here in the tropics it is quite easy to become dehydrated and weak when you are struggling with these discomforts, so please be praying for them.
Thanks again for all your prayers and kind support of the Lord’s work here among us. Your help reaches out to so many who have needs, the Lord has used many of you over and again to help meet the needs of the dear saints here. For that we give you thanks. Lord bless you all, for His glory.
The Friday evening, and Saturday afternoon studies will proceed this week as scheduled. Both have those who attend who do not know the Lord, so please be praying as the Gospel goes out to them. Pray also for those who attend who have been away from the Lord that the Lord might use this time to speak to their hearts as well.
This Sunday and next I will be teaching at Navy Base, then the last Sunday of the month we will be down in Manila and I will be teaching, Lord willing, at the assembly in Cogeo, where we served the Lord for many years.
We will begin hosting a couples fellowship at our place starting next month, are looking forward to that time. We so enjoy having the saints visit us.
Larry and Kim have been sick this past week and still have not recovered. Both are experiencing stomach and intestinal discomfort and all that goes with that. We are not certain at this time what is causing it, so please keep them in your prayers. The grandkids are fine, and are not showing any of the same symptoms, pray that that would continue to be the case. Here in the tropics it is quite easy to become dehydrated and weak when you are struggling with these discomforts, so please be praying for them.
Thanks again for all your prayers and kind support of the Lord’s work here among us. Your help reaches out to so many who have needs, the Lord has used many of you over and again to help meet the needs of the dear saints here. For that we give you thanks. Lord bless you all, for His glory.
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