Live on the Radio Again

In January, I returned to my radio show on 104.3 FM The Edge Radio Davao. Being on the radio here has the potential of reaching two million listeners on the only Christian FM radio station in Davao City.

Live on the Radio at 104.3FM The Edge Radio Davao

My two hour show, “The Cutting Edge Show,” has a weekly prime time slot on Thursdays at 7 PM. The show consists of Bible teaching surrounded by Contemporary Christian music.  I usually spend about five minutes teaching per segment and play two or three songs before returning to my topic.

No matter what the topic, I always make a point to bring a salvation message to win souls every show. Last week, I received a text message from one of my listeners that the song I played touched him and “brought tears to his eyes.” I thank God that we can touch many lives like this through the radio.

Live on the Radio

Refuge Worship Taking Off

Sharing the Word of God at the Refuge

Our regular worship nights at the Refuge are starting to gain momentum. We are having deep, heartfelt worship nights every time we gather. A typical worship night at the Refuge lasts for more than three hours with only a few minutes of preaching.

Anna singing with Peter Naska Band

It’s really a soaking and refreshing environment. We have everyone from high school students to college students to leaders of other ministries coming to be refreshed.

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Our most recent event had several new people come. They left full of the Lord and excited about the next event.

Heartfelt Worship

 

 

Good Report from Vanuatu

Jack Tuls and I had a miraculous time in Vanuatu. We went there with the goal of starting three new Bible Schools, one in Efate, one in Espiritu Santo, and another in Tanna Island. We started our spending the first few days in Port Vila, Efate without any fruitful contacts. After we traveled to Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit) Island, things began to change. Through a series of events, we met a 74-year-old man who was one of the key Christian leaders in all of Vanuatu. The outstanding miracle is He was given land four days before he met us for the purpose of starting a Bible College in Espiritu Santo! It was remarkable to see the divine favor and the timing of God working in our trip.

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After we had this divine appointment, we proceeded to the very remote Tanna Island where we met with an influential Chief who was also the pastor of a Foursquare Church. He graciously had Jack preach in the church and several people were healed. Three of them had back problems instantly healed and another woman with stomach pain was healed. He said he would like to start a Bible school after we helped his missionary start a school in Efate!

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On the last day of the trip, we returned to Port Vila, Efate and met this missionary, a great man of God, from Papua New Guinea. He already planned to start a Bible school in January, but had no curriculum. He gladly accepted Jack’s curriculum and asked if we had it in French too. He has a vision and desire to start Bible schools in French-speaking New Caledonia too. Within minutes, Jack and I gave him the core of the curriculum for the schools already translated into French stored on Jack’s computer. From that meeting alone, we established a school in the capital city and we may have started more schools in another nation.

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Our Christian Brothers and Sisters in Tanna Island, Vanuatu.

Through God’s help, we were able to make miraculous contacts with the key people to start three Bible Schools in Vanuatu and possibly multiple schools in New Caledonia. Praise God!

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Powerful Worship at the Refuge

Awesome Worship at the Refuge Youth Center.

Powerful Worship at the Refuge Youth Center.

We have been continuing our worship nights at the Refuge Youth Center and they seem to get better each time we have them. At the most recent one last week, the praise and worship lasted for three hours straight and when the music stopped, no one wanted to leave. The people just sat there in the stillness of God’s presence. The tangible presence of God was just overwhelming.

Passionate Worship at the Refuge Youth Center.

Passionate Worship at the Refuge Youth Center.

I’ve had other ministry leaders thank me for having a place where they can be refreshed outside of their own ministry. Thank you for supporting the Refuge. We are changing lives together.

Worship at the Refuge

Mission Accomplished!

Faith Tabernacle Baganga Inside truss work

We are happy to announce that we are finally finished with the roof construction project for Faith Tabernacle Church in Baganga.

For those of you who don’t normally read our newsletter, there was a giant typhoon in December that destroyed entire towns, killed thousands of people, almost destroyed this church, and sadly took the life of the pastor’s wife. In response, our ministry took on the project to rebuild this church.

We recently took two trips in the past two weeks and finally finished this seven month long construction project. Our last trip started out with an early morning six hour drive followed by an eleven hour work day of carpentry and mixing concrete. The following day was all about mixing concrete followed by a long drive back to Davao City.

 Mixing Cement in Baganga

On the way back, we stopped to ask a local a question, and his gang of thugs let some air out of our rear tire hoping to steal some of our supplies while we were changing the tire. By the grace of God, we didn’t fall for it and got out of there on a underinflated tire which slowed us down for about 45 minutes while we looked for a place with an air compressor.

Thankfully, we got home safely with the satisfaction that we finished this project. Now the people of this church can worship under a larger dry roof that is better than before, and the family can live in the expanded, nicer parsonage. Thank you for supporting us. This could not have been done without your prayers and financial help.

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Revival Atmosphere

I recently had the privilege of speaking at our home church in the Philippines, His Mission Christian Fellowship, during their retreat and had a wonderful time.

HMCF Retreat

I spoke on the Baptism of The Holy Spirit and He really moved in the church. The whole the church experienced a fresh filling of the Holy Spirit including several people who were filled with the Holy Spirit for the first time.

Revival Atmosphere at HMCF

One was a twelve-year-old boy who reminded me of myself as I was the same age when I was first filled with the Holy Spirit at a similar meeting at a youth camp and it changed my life forever. The cool thing about this is he started coming to the church because of the feeding program there. The church is in an impoverished area and feeds children several times a week.

This awesome church was originally founded by missionaries who came from the historical Pensacola/Brownsville Revival. I think it is just awesome that those same revival fires are still burning in the Philippines many years later. Elijah enjoying the Revival Meeting

Thank You for Helping Us Help Others

In December the monster category five Typhoon Bopha locally called “Pablo” hit our island and killed thousands of people. It destroyed entire towns, buildings, and infrastructure for miles in every direction. I just want to quickly review what we have been doing in response.
 Typhoon Pablo Destruction
For the past eight months we have focused primarily on disaster relief. From the start, several ministries teamed up together to bring urgent disaster rescue and relief. It is quite amazing how the various missionaries from different backgrounds have come together in unity.
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Through this teamwork, we provided medical teams and saved lives. We brought food, tarpaulin shelters, clothing, hygiene kits, toys, and literally tons of construction materials to rebuild.  Along with the natural help, we were also able to bring spiritual renewal as well. Among the countless times we preached, we were also able to hold a big evangelistic concert with approximately 500 salvations with many youth added to the church.
We had to drive over this scary partially-collapsed bridge to get there.

We had to drive over this scary partially-collapsed bridge to get there.

Of the countless trips we have taken, getting there has never been easy. We have driven over partially standing bridges, drove though floods, avoided landslides, survived accidents, and floated on bamboo rafts getting in and out of there.
We had to use this bamboo raft to cross the river.

We had to use this bamboo raft to cross the river.

Also through a lengthy construction project, we have almost rebuilt a 2,000 square-foot church. None of this could have been done without your help and donations.  Thank you so much for your support.
Baganga Church Roofing Project
If you would like to support our work, please take the time to donate online here:

If you would like to support us through the mail, please send your checks, cashier’s checks, or money orders to:

Extreme Mercy International
P.O. Box 72266
Phoenix, Arizona 85050
U.S.A.
 

Thank you and God bless you.

We Built a Roof for This Little Boy

After our latest disaster relief  trip to Baganga, we are thankfully almost finished with the church roofing project. We covered the final rooms of the parsonage including this little guy’s room. It will likely take one last trip to put up the finishing touches on the roof.

Uriah Faith Tabernacle Baganga

On our last disaster relief trip to Baganga, Extreme Mercy International built a roof for this little boy named Uriah.

As far as functionality, everyone can worship under a dry roof and the families that live there can sleep under a stable dry roof. There are just a few things that need to be completed to add support beams to handle the weight of the roof and do some finishing aesthetics.

Baganga Church Roof Progress

This had been one of the costliest undertakings our ministry has tried to accomplish, and it will be wonderful when we are done with it. It has cost us thousands of dollars to pull this off and we are basically out of money for it.

The cost has not only been financial— It has been hard on my young family to have me gone so often and come home often exhausted, sick, and even injured from these trips.

Truthfully, most of the big aid agencies have pulled out of the area leaving half of the homes still covered with tarpaulins seven months after the storm. Even many of the government buildings and schools are still in shambles.

Church Rebuilding Team

We are one of the few organizations still helping. I spoke to a pastor who said 42 evangelical church buildings were destroyed and the congregations are still displaced. I would love to help them all, but praise God that through your generosity and giving we were able to help this one church and can hopefully help more as God provides.

If you would like to support our work, please donate here:

If you would like to support us through the mail, please send your checks, cashier’s checks, or money orders to:

Extreme Mercy International
P.O. Box 72266
Phoenix, Arizona 85050
U.S.A.
 

Thank you and God bless you.

Ministry in the USA

After focusing on resting, visiting family and friends, and receiving ministry for the first part of our USA trip, we have started ministering again.

Just this week, we spoke to the Ascent Singles Ministry at Phoenix First Assembly of God under Pastor Jim Black. We received lots of great feedback that many people were encouraged in their faith.

We also recently spoke to the youth group of Living Waters church in Prescott, AZ with good results. The youth really responded to us well and listened to our message attentively. To speak to such an excellent group really gives me hope that the youth of the USA still have great potential in the Lord.

We are also looking forward to speaking at the Bridge Church in Carson City, Nevada on October 7, 2012. Please keep that date in prayer as we are expecting God to do wonderful things there.

Unstoppable in Bulacan

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Last January, I was invited to be the guest speaker at a big youth event in  Pulilan, Bulacan. The theme of the event was Unstoppable.

I shared about unstoppable people in history and lead into the unstoppable love of Jesus who died on the cross for them. I also did a human video about the crucifixion for them which really touched their hearts.

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120 youth came to the event and all 120 youth responded to the salvation altar call. They have a huge youth group for such a small town. It is remarkable to see what God is doing there. What is happening is nothing short of a revival.