San Marcelino

Today (Wednesday) we worked with the Church in San Marcelino. This Church was only about an hour away.

Vernon and Marlow enjoying the heat and humidity. Well, maybe not Vernon so much!

The children were ready to get started this morning as soon as we arrived. They were a great group of kids - very talkative and outgoing.

This is me with Amanda. She thought it was neat that we had the same name.

In the afternoon we held a little clinic with the same doctor and nurse as yesterday - Ed and Deborah. Deborah is good to work with, and I'll miss talking to her even though there are no more clinics planned. Her father is the preacher at a church we'll be visiting later on. She seems to have a very happy spirit. While we did the clinic, Katie did a fabulous job of keeping the children entertained.

Thank you all for your continued prayers. It is an honor to meet part of my Christian family in another country and show the love of Christ.

Santa Cruz

Oops! I had a little trouble uploading the pictures on this post. This one should be the last picture. Anyway, Katie single-handedly took care of the children's lesson while I was busy seeing patients. And she did a great job!

Yesterday (Tuesday) we drove a few hours away to the town of Santa Cruz and worked with the Church there.

Eddie began things by preaching a lesson. I couldn't understand a word he was saying because he was speaking in the Filipino language. But you can see from the picture that he's in his element.

I worked with another doctor and a nurse for about 2 hours and saw patients. I'd triage them, then send them over to the doctor to get their prescription. Nothing too exciting, but the main thing is that we were helping them and hopefully encouraging some of them to come to Church here. The main problems for the adults were diabetes and high blood pressure; for the kids - seasonal coughs.

We gave out portions of rice, noodles, and canned sardines to those with need.

Project 6 Church of Christ

We arrived at the Philippines after an 11 hour flight from Honolulu. We were joyfully met by the preacher Marlow Garlitos, and his wife Lydia and son Jojo. They treated us to a real Filipino dinner at a restaurant and then dropped us off at the hotel. Katie and I were exhauseted and didn't have any trouble going to sleep.
Church on Sunday was really encouraging. From what I could tell, there were about 30 people in attendance. But you couldn't tell it from the singing - it seemed like there were at least double that number. And they sang good! A young man did a good class on Acts 14:8-18. Apparently, every so often he will give out written exams, and then whoever scores the highest gets a little reward. Marlow usually preaches, but he went to the airport to pick up Vernon and Eddie. So another man preached a good sermon on Philemon.
They seem to have a lot of good works going on here: fellowship meal every Sunday, door knocking in the area each Sunday from 4-6pm, and a parent's/children's class Monday - Friday 9-11am. They have a good website - www.project6coc.org.
The children's class here was our first one. It was a little disorganized in the beginning, but it worked out okay. We're looking forward to doing the next one.
Thank you all for your prayers and support of this mission. Internet access is unpredictable, so I'll update this when I can.