REPORT

We want to thank you for all your prayers. We arrived in Cebu at midnight and found a very good cab driver (christian) maybe he found us. He found us a very nice hotel and arranged our boat travel the next morning. We arrived in Ormoc City around noon and hired another driver to take us to Isabel where we did a little shopping then took a boat across the bay to begin the last leg of our journey. We really surprised the people when we arrived. I had to praise God for getting us and all of the luggage and the flat-screen TV here in one piece. Dinner that night, Chicken n rice.


Spent the next few days talking with pastor Dave and taking inventory of the projects that needed to be done. Number 1 was getting the car running. Master cylinder needed to be replaced, tires were just about all flat because of sitting for over a year and at this time he's giving it a tune-up. Going to have to replace it though because it's rusting out and unsafe for highway use. Looking for a used one now.

The first Sunday in church I was blown away. It was like standing on Holy Ground when I stepped into the sanctuary. New tile down the isle, and everything in order. Gary was there as greeter and the music was great even though it was older (what we sang 10 years ago in the states) it was wonderful. They have a piano, guitar. drums and new speakers. One of the things that pastor shared that works quite well is that they start church at 8:30 and then have Sunday school afterwards.

When we were home I had said we had 5 churches but I find out we now have 7. Two of them are new plants. It's so exciting to see what God can do when we cooperate with Him. The pastor has been training up leaders to go and minister to the new churches as well as holding Bible studies. I have seen a tremendous change in our people in the village in the last year. You can actually seen the Love of Christ in their faces.

Going to build two new classrooms for the youth as they really need them.

Pastor's wife teaches in the Antipolo elementry school and said most of the kids come to school hungry, so we're going to start by feeding them one meal a week and engage the church members to help. It will also be a time for ministry as we have one hour. If anyone wants to help they can contact Sandie Reinbold at Living Waters.

We love you all and keep you in our prayers. Till next time.

Ps Ken J. would you look at the blog site and see if you can fix the dark blue language, it's in Korean I think.





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Rob & Christina Seever

Missionaries to the Philippines

robseeverministries.blogspot.com