Engaging the Community

Early this year, we asked permission to use the Barangay gym (Brgy Quirino 2A, Quezon City) for our upcoming DVBS during Holy Week. One of the Kagawad on duty suggested we work with the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK, or Community Youth Council)) so that they could make it their service project for the kids.

The SK serves the community by planning and conducting beneficial programs and service projects to imporve life in the community. Sort of like a community-based student council.

The SK agreed, and we have since formed a continuing working relationship with them. Several are open to the Gospel and asking good questions. We have an on-going devotional time with them, but it would be good if they met more often.

Seated in front from left to right are: Jaja, Joy (chairman), and Ailene. Middle l to r: Macri and Eljerlyn; Rear l to r: Alor, Diane, Alih. Not pictured: Julianne.

See the next segment for update.

Capiz Update 3 - Nov 15-16, 2010

Wolves becoming lambs: a group of men who came to disrupt one of the meetings took time to listen and left peacefully.

At left, Pastor Arman Salistre explains the Gospel to a small group after the message. In 1992, Pastor Arman and 3 other pastors joined their small house churches together into a movement they named Immanuel Christian Assembly. He has planted 6 more churches in the surrounding towns and there are now 30 congregations meeting in communities in Aklan, Capiz, and Iloilo provinces.

Capiz Update 2

Nov 12, Brgy Baye, Mambusao, Capiz. Bring your friends! This is the school bus in Brgy Baye, Mambusao - I missed the opportunity to get a shot of 8 on the motorbike! Mornings began with school assemblies, then kids brought their parents to evening meetings. This combination turned out to be a great way to bring the family to hear the Gospel during our recent trip to Capiz.

Iloilo / Capiz Evangelistic Campaign

Nov 13 - Bato-Bato Feeding Center, Mambusao , Capiz

Many teens and adults gathered in the adjacent areas to listen as Marlon explained the Gospel

Baking brownies and Bible study with Katie and her friends.

Connecting with Students

Oct 22-24 SOLD OUT College Retreat. The theme was Romans 12:1- Sold Out (to Jesus). It has been both refreshing and daunting to try to reconnect to the student world over the past few months at he University of the Philippines. Spending 3 days with 200 students on a retreat was enjoyable but tiring. It is exciting to witness God at work among them. Above right: our d-group at camp- Kenneth, Leonard, Janiel, Philip, me. Leonard, a 4th-year pre-med student, is learning to disciple his peers. Above left: Kenneth was among many baptized this weekend.

6th LPE National Congress on Evangelism

The League of Philippine Evangelists held our 6th National Congress on Evangelism this OCt 15-16 in Camp Jabez, Cavite. Dr. Cornelio Castillo challenged us with practical and passionate messages on "The Heart-Piercing Message" and "The Heart-Piercing Messenger." We also held a couple of short practical workshops, had excellent fellowship and networking and made initial plans for a combination training conference for evangelists and pastors and a saturation evangelism campaign in conjunction with the 7th National Congress on Evangelism in Eastern Samar in May 2011. Everyone was excited about this ambitious and timely plan. The doors for effective church planting in Eastern Samar are opening wide. We need to pray for laborers.

Dr. Cornelio "Doy" Castillo

THE LPE Executive Committee (several members not present for photo)