test blog 2

TEL, Word of Life puppet team and brother Obet and family (at left in black shirt - Lifegiver members from Escopa) after the Sept 24 crusade.  Brother Obet will coordinate follow-up in the area.

Training Church Planters in Evangelism

In partnership with Mission Ministries Philippines (MMP), we have been training a church planting team in Payatas, Quezon City in open-air street evangelism. The team is headed by Pastor Ramir Sadang. Pastor Ramir and team have been enthusiastic so far with the new contacts generated this way, and have already begun training the youth to assist. The youth are excited to have a part in helping the church to grow and plant a daughter church. Here Pastor Ramir (who previously said he does not enjoy evangelism) is really enjoying himself preaching in the open air. He discovered unknown gifts! Praise God! Eventually we will be working with other MMP-sponsored teams in various squatter communities around Metro Manila.

Community-Wide Evangelism: Escopa

TEL Philippines partnered with Jesus Christ the Lifegiver Church for an open air evangelistic meeting in Barangay Escopa 3, Quezon City on Sept 24. Approximatley 350 attended, 72 were counseled.

First Post Test

The Tripp family has served as missionaries with Training Evangelistic Leadership (TEL) in the Philippines since 1995. After 10 years based in Batangas City, Batangas, they are now based in Antipolo, Rizal, east of Manila. Mike serves as director of TEL Philippines, which currently has ministry teams in Batangas City, Lipa City, and Quezon City.

Mike and Diane are both from Louisville, KY USA.

Mike met Christ during his freshman year at the University of Louisville through the ministry of the Navigators.  During his early years in college, Mike received extensive help and training through the Navigator ministry and learned to share his faith and help others grow spiritually.  Diane came to Christ when she was 12 through a house prayer meeting.  She joined a youth group in high school and learned to love the Word of God and develop her relationship with the Lord.  She also received training through the Navigator ministry.  Later both Mike and Diane transferred to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY where they continued involvement in student ministry following graduation.

Later they served for a short time as volunteer Youth leaders with First Alliance Church of Richmond, KY before returning to Louisville and then moving to the Philippines.  Their home church is Southeast Christian Church of Louisville, KY.
TEL operates in six Asian nations. TEL focuses on personal and public evangelism and personal follow-up and discipleship. We offer training seminars in personal evangelism, personal follow-up and discipleship, and full-time training programs for those who are called as public evangelists.  

Upon arrival in the Philippines in 1995, the Tripps moved to Batangas City, Batangas, where they spent their first year in language study, then began to reach out to local college students and in their community.  In 1998, we relocated to Tagaytay for 5 months of training under TEL International Director and founder Roy Robertson.  Following the training program, Mike joined with Senen Bandelaria and Fernando Garzon to form the TEL Philippines Mobile Gospel Team.  They traveled extensively across the nation over the next several years for open-air evangelism in cooperation with local churches.    They also hosted three live-in training programs for evangelists during these years in their home/ training base: June-Nov 1999, Jan-Sept 2002, and July 2004- May 2005.  In July 2006 they relocated to Antipolo, Rizal.

Currently Mike assists our Manila team with student ministry at the University of the Philippines, Diliman campus in Quezon City.  He is also responsible for staff development and networking with churches and ministries for cooperative outreach and training.