Alabang

Brian and I are back at the guest house in Alabang now. Our weekend trips to the ABPs went well. This morning there was the monthly MTW pastors fellowship. All of the pastors and church planters for MTW were there. Their wives also had a fellowship at the same time, but not all of them were able to come. It was good for the pastors to be around each other some more as some of them are in cities without other Presbyterians. I was able to speak with Pastor Ruben Hidalgo this morning (it was his church that hosted the MOF rally in Lemery). He said that he has had follow-ups with some of the people that came to Christ and at least one of the guys wants to start a Christian band in Lemery. It is a great praise that there has been a commitment from the converts there. Buboy presented two prayer requests from ABP 1 this morning. Jing-Jing is one of the girls that has been in the home for a couple of years. She has diabetes and has had trouble watching what she eats and also has to take insulin everyday. The second prayer request is for Lyn-Lyn. She has a malignant tumor in her neck and started chemotherapy today. She is with her parents so, please pray that Buboy and others will be able to reach out to them in this time as well. Buboy also announced today that ABP 4 will open on September 9th. It will be a home for girls ages 6 to 12 with the older girls staying at ABP 1.

For the next week and a half or so, Brian and I will be going around with Topher. We will visit some of the members of his church, looking for kids for the ABPs, visiting the kids that were in aftercare, doing outreaches in Camachille and going back to Cubao for ministry. Please pray for us that we would always be prepared to share the gospel and would look for every opportunity to do it.