Philippines Update-December 29 2008
Monday, December 29 2008
Dear Family and friends and special prayer partners,
We are happy to tell you that the work in Mindoro went well. We have made the long trip off the island and just arrived in the home of friends who operate a slum watch ministry. We are able to do the email now and catch up on what is happening.
We have stories to tell as time permits. We had morning mission training sessions for Natalie and many others wanted to join. We ended up doing the voice lessons using the big speakers in the church and had about 30 participating. On Christmas day we were trying to do the session in the home we stayed in but it ended up being a disaster for they could not hear our little DVD player and all had a different note. It sounded like a bunch of barking dogs.
In clinic we treated 30 people or more every day for a week.
We plan to return to do the Pinyamalayan church. The sanctuary was left on the island. Perhaps it can be June that we return. The jeep operator kept raising the price thinking that we would pay anything just to catch our plane. It was just like the rising airline ticket prices. Funny thing, we planned at midnight with the pastor for him to take us to the ferry (3 hrs) and then go with us but God provided us a van for public use that cost only 1/3 of what we spent getting there. We were so thankful.
More stories will follow as we reach home.
Your fellow co laborers in the Master’s Vineyard,
Dr. Rose
We are happy to tell you that the work in Mindoro went well. We have made the long trip off the island and just arrived in the home of friends who operate a slum watch ministry. We are able to do the email now and catch up on what is happening.
We have stories to tell as time permits. We had morning mission training sessions for Natalie and many others wanted to join. We ended up doing the voice lessons using the big speakers in the church and had about 30 participating. On Christmas day we were trying to do the session in the home we stayed in but it ended up being a disaster for they could not hear our little DVD player and all had a different note. It sounded like a bunch of barking dogs.
In clinic we treated 30 people or more every day for a week.
We plan to return to do the Pinyamalayan church. The sanctuary was left on the island. Perhaps it can be June that we return. The jeep operator kept raising the price thinking that we would pay anything just to catch our plane. It was just like the rising airline ticket prices. Funny thing, we planned at midnight with the pastor for him to take us to the ferry (3 hrs) and then go with us but God provided us a van for public use that cost only 1/3 of what we spent getting there. We were so thankful.
More stories will follow as we reach home.
Your fellow co laborers in the Master’s Vineyard,
Dr. Rose