THE FIELDS ARE WHITE FOR HARVEST

WAITING

MY DAD'S IN THE RICE FIELD I'M JUST GOING TO WAIT FOR HIM RIGHT HERE

BRINGING IN THE RICE

RIC TOR AND ES TOR HARVESTING THEIR RICE. SEPT 26, 2008.

RICE HARVEST

SEPARATING THE RICE

LILLY

This Lilly only blooms once a year. They look terrible until they bloom. Then Wow!

One of Gods creations.

CHURCH

We had our monthly church potluck and we had 100 people turn out. We use the potlucks as an evangelism tool.

PRAYER

Can we and/or will we?
I was very dismayed when, recently, a member of my Church said to me with great resignation that she was afraid Obama will take the presidency. These words came from someone that in the past has been a great prayer warrior. What is happening was my question??? Why are we Christians settling for the loss of our Christian heritage, not issuing a battle cry and falling to our knees and taking our country back? We allow ourselves to be stripped of the right to pray at school functions and in school, we have the Ten Commandments removed from government places and are told we cannot pray publicly or proclaim Christian principles, all the while providing public prayer places for Muslims. We allow Muslim mosques to operate in America funded by Saudi Arabia, and proclaim anti-American, anti-Christian threats and terrorism.
What in the world is going on and why are we being so apathetic? Why aren't we praying? Our God is an Almighty God who is waiting patiently for us to raise our voices to heaven to stop the tide of the anti-Christian actions in our world today. Now we have a charismatic, albeit inexperienced, candidate for president that does not respect our flag and refuses to wear one on his lapel except when it becomes politically expedient, There has never been a time in 2000 years that we can do nothing, never a time that we must sit back and allow the evil in men's and women's hearts to take over our world! We should be afraid, very afraid because our apathy is leading us to perdition.
It is time for all Christian Americans to raise the battle cry and take our nation back! Maybe McCain on his own cannot defeat Obama, but our God can and He will if we take to our knees in prayer and raise a mighty cry to the heavens to 'Save us O Lord'. Who knows where with his message of 'change'; a change which I fear will be away from our Christian ideals, and away from Christ. We have God's promises in 2 Chronicles 7:14, 'If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.' We have the power to change the course of this election and to keep a man as suspect as Barak Obama from leading our country away from one nation under God to one nation under Allah.
We are great at passing stories and pictures around the Internet but where are our prayers and prayer warriors praying to stop this tide of Barak Obama? God parted the Red Sea, Jesus was raised from the dead, and we can bring our country back to its Christian roots and stop the undermining of our country by Muslims. We can stop our country from being 'under Allah' but we must begin to pray, to pray as our country and our lives depended on it because they do.
We can stop all these atrocities against God's commands that have taken root in our country through something as simple as sincere prayer, a call to God to deliver us, to forgive us our sins of apathy and to protect us from the evil that is upon us.
Okay prayer warriors, here is your challenge, start those prayer chains. Get the spiritual power working on our behalf and stop Barak Obama the proper way, by calling on our God to save us from the deception that charismatic preaching is using to lead us on the wrong path. Stop those who would take God out of our country and our government. Raise up good men to lead us and protect us. George Bush is being buffeted because he has fought a holy war against the evils that attack us ... and we should not be surprised because a prophet is not honored in his own country. But we should not rest on our laurels and allow ourselves to be taken further off the path of Christianity and to have God removed from our presence in our schools, courts, government and businesses. Invite God into the fray. Ask that His power rest upon us and give us the victory. Ask him to raise up a mighty army to defend us and to protect our country as he did in days of old. Let us be victorious beginning NOW. The battle is His but we must call on Him without ceasing and unite our voices and hearts in prayer and fasting.
Please pass this around to all people of prayer that you know and maybe, just maybe, a more eloquent person of prayer will write something better and more inspiring and even the rocks will shout that Jesus is Lord and our Mighty God is with us and bringing the victory for us and ultimately for Him. AMEN!
" Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is WHAT you really are, while your reputation is what others THINK you are!"

OPEN MARKET

One of the produce venders.

It's interesting to see all the venders from fish,chicken. beef, pork, charcole, firewood, you name it they have it somewhere.

OPEN MARKET

This is a wonderful place to fellowship and share the love of Christ.

WE HAVE THE VICTORY

I can fly

I thought you made the reservations and now we will miss the church picnic. Rob will be upset because he was to bring the lichun.

Did you find my ring

No, but it's got to be here someplace. Keep eating or Rob will kick us out.

Valve job

I was totally in aw that you could do a valve job for $10.00 with no special equiptment. Right in my back yard too.

Shoe repair

This is the kindest friendliest person on Roxas Street in Isabel. You wouldn't know he was disabled.

House Call

Where else but here for $1.00 for Uncommon Women in a common world.

Housing in the Philippines

But Christina, I thought you said the sign said McCormick Woods.

They are always building here.

But sir I thought you closed the hatch.

Philippine Waterfront

I was raised in the state of Washington on the water. It used to be that the average family could afford this type of living if they chose. In the Philippines which are comprised of 7100 islands there is a lot of waterfront and down here. It seems that the poor , or fishermen, or panboat opperators live on the water, while the farmer, or wealthy live in the uplands.

I also want to make mention of the typhoon we had here last month. We were without power for seventy five hours. Really need a generator for times like that. Without power which we take for granted in the states, our waterpump does'nt work nor do the refers and freezer. Lost a lot of food because of it. The up side was that we collected water from the roof to bathe and cook. I was telling the Lord that I really enjoy the home he gave us, but it seems funny when you don't have power and you don't know when they will turn it back on. With all the rurial area it takes time to find the breaks. Oh by the way, when it really rains we have waterfront also and were a 20 min. walk from the bay.

Now in the Philippines

We've added 4 more pigs to the barn. gives a total of eight. The piggery will help us to subsidize the ministry here in Leyte. Christina and I have been back 3 months and spent a lot of time and money repairing things after being gone for 3 years. New roof, paint job, added a dorm for conferances. Put a new ceiling in the church and painted. Things are starting to take shape.
The people have really grown in the Lord in the last three years. Were starting a monthly potluck.this week. We've invited our home missions churches. Looking forward to it. Lots of food and good fellowship. Kind of like church on the grounds.Amen?

Piggery Up and Running

7/16/2008 Since I talked to you last I got my piggery up and running. I couldn't just see the barn just sit there. So I put on a new nipa roof, scrubbed it down and am in the process of stocking it. as you can see. Have four more coming the first of the month. These will help to subsidise the ministry. God has been so good to us. His mercy endures forever.