Informal Community Outreach in the Philippines Bears Fruit

 VOICE Philippines regularly invites current and previous church partners to submit answers to prayer and prayer requests which VOICE then share in its monthly VIP – VOICE In Prayer. Pre-pandemic, this usually included stories of opportunities and results the churches were experiencing as they taught Biblical Values. But due to so many restrictions during the pandemic, very few were able to continue previous ministry. Now that restrictions have been loosened somewhat and students are finally able to return to their classrooms, it seems that the Department of Education so far has been too occupied with other issues and has yet not considered the formal requests to resume the weekly teaching of values in the classrooms by trained church volunteers. Please continue to pray that this will still happen. However, praise God that He is not limited by government, etc. This past month, a church shared an encouraging incident; the church is located in Puerto Princesa, a city on the island of Palawan. (See maps - Palawan is a long narrow island on the west of the Philippine islands). Perhaps the pastor is the writer. VOICE included it in the VIP as it was sent to them, in “Taglish” (combined Tagalog and English); I (Ruth) have loosely translated it for you.

“Every last Friday of the month, I gathered together some children and taught them the Truth and Honesty module of the VOICE curriculum. The Holy Spirit guided me as I taught insights from both Truth and Honesty. I was able to also share the gospel. As a result, the children received the Lord Jesus and immediately asked for a copy of the Bible that I was using. May the Lord increase His blessing on your ministry. God bless us all.”

The prayer request from that church was – “Please continue to pray that the Lord will call married couples to serve here with us so that we can extend our follow-up and have more ministry.”