The Lord of the Harvest Doing His Amazing Work

One thing good about age is that we get to see more of how God graciously uses our feeble efforts in the past and multiplies them in His time. He is also such a master at “connecting the dots!”

I well remember, back ten or more years, praying with Christian leaders for a certain area of Manila. Hand in hand with prayer, I encouraged pastors to get involved in teaching Biblical values in that area. What an encouragement when Pastor Joey and his wife Del responded to the challenge. But then more prayer was needed because the schools proved to be very resistant—that area was a stronghold of the leading religion of the Philippines. Eventually Pastor Joey and his volunteer values teachers were allowed to teach the Biblical values in one of the Schools near his church.

Soon after that, Pastor Joey invited me to attend an EvanTell seminar being held in his church. It was there that I was introduced to the evangelism tool called CrossTalk.  Upon the suggestion of Pastor Joey, the facilitator of that seminar, now the head of EvanTell, graciously made time in that training for me to share about the VOICE program with all who attended. As a result of that seminar, VOICE Philippines benefited much from the generosity of EvanTell as we incorporated CrossTalk into the “Phase Two” or direct evangelism with students—those who showed spiritual interest following the Values Classes. Pastor Joey became the Philippine EvanTell representative and so we connected often with him. (And now, to connect yet another dot, literally hundreds of thousands of CrossTalks have been printed and used here in East Africa.) 

Just yesterday, I received an email from the head of EvanTell regarding several matters. He then went on to tell me that Pastor Joey is now on the VOICE Philippines Board of Trustees and…God has opened doors in that religious part of Manila. A number of churches have now joined forces with Pastor Joey’s church and committed themselves to reaching into the schools…the schools are open to the teaching of Biblical values!  Praise God for vision bearers and how in God’s time He opens doors and does work beyond what we would have thought or dreamed. All praise to Him.