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Update on Our Training for the Fire Dept!

     Thank you friends for praying us through another term. This term tested us in some new ways, but God has been faithful.  We were able to enjoy a couple days of vacation away this week to regroup as a family after the trimester and last week’s full ministry week event (More on that next week).  Still so proud of the kids for how they are persevering here!

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     But we wanted to update you on what transpired in the trainings we asked you to pray about with the Bureau of Fire Protection here.  The class we helped teach involved 32 Inspectors from all over the Philippines – many of whom are away from their families for several months as they get trained and qualified for promotions.

My colleagues here and I covered 52 total seminar hours, of which I did 8 hours on influencing culture and leading change. I was excited to do this because it was a very new type of experience and it was very developmental.  But I found that I was able to tap into many of their struggles – both career and personally, as I walked them through the dynamics of change and especially its impact on people. It was a big effort, but I was glad to take part.

Most powerfully, in one of the final sessions focused on conflict resolution and reconciliation, IGSL’s President Tom Roxas came in to share his personal testimony of forgiveness and reconciliation with a mobster who murdered his brother. It was powerful and many in the room responded with tears to an invitation to experience reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ.

The feedback we’ve gotten indicates that getting the leadership training from us, with the Biblical foundations, was really transformational for many of the officers.  And it was so well received, our team was asked to offer the overall course of training again to a higher ranking group of officers in the Bureau of Fire Protection (Majors).  Conversations are still in the works on some kind of more formal partnership with their leadership training as well as with a proposal for us to begin sending one of our student “Target Area Ministry” teams to the Bureau of Fire soon.  You can pray for that!

     But another wild and fun step of faith. Also worth mentioning here – last week we sent 5 teams of students to the police academy to do continued follow-up and discipleship from the outreach last month that saw around 500 come to faith or recommit their lives to Christ. Because of the generally religious culture here, such follow up is so important and it’s been encouraging to hear the stories of authentic life change in Christ!  Thank you for praying!

Christine’s Small Group (ISG)

     One of the highlights this trimester was the discipleship small group I led of women in the Partners in Ministry Program.  I have loved getting to know them and sharing life with them week to week. It’s a diverse group from left to right – Wilma (Sri Lanka), me, Goma (Nepal), Cinu (India), Mareille (Berundi, Africa), and Many studies have shown that viagra on line pharmacy modern erection enhancing medicines work well for these males and help them refilling sexual potency. Look at a directory’s pagerank, the pagerank of internal pages, the number of pages indexed, and the sites that directory supports. buy viagra in usa As far as inguinal hernia viagra store in canada surgery is concerned, in most cases, and in the absence of postoperative complications, the operative repair can lead to a recovery of the sexual problems faced by major percentage of men being affected by ED is definitely the most popular ED drug. Some drug manufacturers prescription du viagra have capitalised on the benefits of online pharmacies are great, which has led many traditional patients to switch over to the Internet for prescriptions. taking the picture is Sunny from Korea.

     I’ve learned so much as I have walked alongside these women. Pray for them as God prepares them and their husbands for ministry. Next term I will lead a new group of women, but pray for these women who are great women of faith!

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Ministry Week!

It’s Ministry Week time again at IGSL which is the annual time of field ministry of evangelism and discipleship and training that faculty and students do together in their small groups.

Please pray for Brian as he leaves with his small group from Sept. 4-8. Classes just ended and now it’s five days designed for faculty to model ministry side by side students. The reason why the cheapest erectile dysfunction is prevented with the intake of the tadalafil cialis http://www.slovak-republic.org/itinerary/bratislava/. cialis from india online In certain particular occurrences you may be endorsed with prescriptions to treat your issue. The jelly version of the medicine is also good and has great response over male erectile levitra price in india dysfunction. Just alike the genuine one, it also requires sexual stimulation sale cialis in the male body so that it can works flawlessly. They will be doing leadership training for pastors from 10+ churches in Bulacon (30 min from the school) and working on a local campus to pioneer a new movement of multiplying followers of Jesus.

There will be about 25 total ministry teams sent out this week doing ministry! There are 5 times going to the police academy, one team with the Congress, one team with the military academy, and the rest at many churches and other sites.  Please pray for that!

Celebrating ONE YEAR and an UNLIKELY SECOND!

Dear friends!!

     We have been in Manila for a little over a year now! We had a fun celebration as a family because we felt like it was worthy of celebrating given all of what was required from all of us to make it through the move and the whole year.  I (Christine) am excited to share an update on our family as well as share some of the fun ministry opportunities I have had a hand in over the last couple of months.

     When we returned in May I honestly felt like I was jumping into the deep end of the pool and needed to hold my breath and pray my way through another year of transition and challenge. Last year was so stretching for me and coming back took faith when I feared more sickness, loneliness, and feeling overwhelmed.

     But several times of late I have said to Brian that I am surprised I came back after last year, but I am so glad we did.  God was not finished with our family here yet and I’m thankful for that. God has provided in so many ways that have led to us having a much better year so far. Some homeschool days are longer then others 🙂  but overall we are getting into a rhythm of life here and I am very thankful we are here for now.

      Many of you prayed for Morgan last year as our first year was hardest on her and I.  Prayers have been answered, it is such a gift to see.  She is lighter, happier.  She has made good friends here.  When we don’t have her girls Bible study she is sad, she really enjoys the Bible study we are leading together and she does a great job helping me lead.  She is good at it. But really all of our kids our doing well! 

     In fact, we wanted to share with you some of the responses from our family “debrief” when everyone reflected on things that they’ve learned over their first year here in Manila……

Colin:  “I’ve learned that I can make friends with tons of people! I have so many friends. Oh – and I’ve learned to read a lot more.”  (He has a large social capacity – he is well known and loved here.)

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Morgan: “I’ve learned that I can take things personally some times when my friends do things I don’t understand. I also have learned that I go to bed waaay earlier than Filipino kids my age!”

Kaelyn:  “I learned to say frog and beautiful in Tagalog.  And I learned to use the potty also.”  (Praise God for that one! We do not recommend starting potty training a month before you move to a developing nation. It was a bumpy road, but we got there! Kaelyn is our best Tagalog learner. Most of the words we know, we learned because she started using them first!)

Brian: “I’ve learned so much about the Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist parts of the world that I didn’t know much about before. I’ve learned more about God’s heart for people in these challenging places. And I’ve learned how to be a more effective teacher.”

Me: “I’ve learned I can handle a lot more than I think I can and I’m tougher than I think I am. And I’ve learned so much more about my kids – I know them so much better now!”

And we ALL have learned about the power of prayer through this year and are grateful for your prayers for us!!!  

So as the last few updates show, while I still am learning and adjusting culturally,  struggling through homeschooling and the heat and humidity and general lack of mobility here, God has been faithful to show me that He’s using me with my kids, and also as I invest and pour into the lives of women who will be partnering to take the gospel to places I may never visit or see. I’m thankful for the opportunity to impact the nations for Christ (and the local community too) in the ways God is providing for me.

The soccer equipment and the IGSL community day are fun things that really bring a lot of life and energy to the community and I like leading projects that meet needs. In the coming weeks we’ll share more about a much BIGGER project I’m helping coordinate. Keep praying!

Coordinating IGSL Beautification Day!

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An amazing opportunity came up as a result of my dad meeting a man in the U.S. whose organization likes to donate soccer equipment to kids and communities in developing nations. People here LOVE soccer, especially the international students.   As we explored this opportunity, IGSL seemed to fit the bill for what this man and his company like to be a part of.  It’s a pay it forward type of arrangement so we needed to find a way to bless the community around us.  

This was PERFECT because the leadership of IGSL wants to build stronger relationships with the local community around us, but with the business and schedule it’s hard to orchestrate and plan.  But I was so excited for how much it would bless the kids and the regular soccer players here that I took on the job and negotiated with the local Barangay Captain (like a city council official) for IGSL to help with a 2 mile beautification effort in the community. 

About 20 came – some students and some of the students’ children – and it was a huge success. The Barangay was surprised and blown away by IGSL’s initiative and effort and it was a big win to partner with some of the folks assigned to do this community service already.  Some of the work was tough and took a strong stomach (as Colin had a few challenging moments with various overpowering smells), but the result was great.

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In addition to stronger community relationships (huge for future ministry opportunities), the soccer equipment will be a great blessing for the students here and the children on campus as well! Leading this was a cross-cultural experience, but totally rewarding!   People in the community have stopped me in the days since that work day to tell me how much it meant because no one outside their community has ever volunteered to serve their community that way – that it included so many people from different countries was mind blowing!

Here’s Colin Working Hard

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Partners in Ministry Class

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     I (Christine) helped teach the introductory class for the Partners in Ministry Program this past term which all the 1st year wives go through.  It casts vision to wives for their role in establishing a foundation for a lifetime of ministry together as a couple.

     One of the memorable sessions I did focused on forgiveness and women are still telling me how much it impacted them in their marriages and families.  This picture is from an end of the class banquet I led for the wives and their husbands which was a special time for the couples. The ladies prepared special expressions of affection to their husbands and honored them and we had a good time together talking about marriage and ministry.
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    One of the best things about being here is helping married couples who are called to the ministry learn how to be a team – both spiritually, emotionally, and in the ministry.  There’s so many pressures that couples in ministry face and without a good foundation it can be a difficult road.

Pizza Movement

       I kept thinking to myself, “Maybe only at IGSL” and “This is so cool” over and over as I found myself in the middle of a Bible Study of Pizza Hut employees at 11pm at night after closing in one of the local malls.  We thought we were only meeting three of the workers, but ALL 10 workers had just closed down the store and settled down at a table for a Bible Study led by two IGSL students from Pakistan – Sharjeel and Azeem.

      Sharjeel and Azeem and their wives love pizza and periodically visited this pizza hut and eventually began to have spiritual conversations and share the gospel with a couple of the workers.  One week the workers began to share great pains and burdens that opened a door for Sharjeel and Azeem to initiate a Bible study to learn about Jesus more.  One man’s wife had just converted to Islam and left him. Another woman’s husband was threatening to abandon her and her newborn son. Still another girl in her early twenties was fearful that she had breast cancer but had no money for treatment. Heartbreaking.

Sharjeel and Azeem asked me to come so I could coach them as they seek to essentially pioneer a ministry at this Pizza Hut and maybe surrounding restaurants. 11pm Bible Studies are not my thing, but I couldn’t say no! And they really did a phenomenal job.  A few of the workers were believers, but most were not.  They all seemed truly grateful for a chance to learn more about Jesus together – they were workers, but really were a tight community as well.

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     We love teaching and serving students who really do have hearts for the Great Commission and are hungry for all the training they can get.  And you know what – every student is doing something like this on a weekly basis as part of their academic requirement. Sharjeel and Azeem already are pioneering other ministries weekly through their “Target Area Ministry” which they devote 3 hours a week to. Sharjeel is at a local high school while Azeem is working to start a ministry at a local company.  When students aren’t just gaining head knowledge, but experiencing transformation through actual ministry experience it really is a contagious atmosphere.

     Thank you for praying for these guys and all the students and for these opportunities!!

Starting a Different Kind of Fire

Dear friends!!

          As a result of several seasons of sowing and the recent success and fruitful impact IGSL has had on the police academy cadets, the IGSL Leadership Department has been asked to formally partner with the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) to conduct the official leadership trainings that officers are required to take in order for their promotions. This means we are close to formal partnerships with ALL 3 branches of the Philippines College of Public Safety (Fire Dept, Jail Management, and the Police Academy).

Some of my Filipino friends here have shared with me that the general reputation of the fire department here is very different than it is in the United States. They shared a local saying, “Better to have thieves than fire.”  The meaning of this essentially is that if the fire department was called not only would your house burn, but your valuables would be taken as well. Thieves steal valuables but at least the house doesn’t burn.  So clearly this is a great opportunity to make a spiritual and civic impact!

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       Starting tomorrow (Sat) we will host over 30 BFP Officers for about 52 total hours of class and training.  This will be a team effort from our leadership department, but I (Brian) will be covering about 8 hours of this focusing on team leadership, problem solving, and leading change.  But we have been given permission to provide a Biblical perspective on leadership and even have clear permission to communicate the gospel explicitly and unapologetically.  The bulk of my sessions are on August 23rd if you can pray that day!

Please pray for this. It’s a little wild and we’re designing as we go. Pray the training is received well and results in greater influence and opportunities for ministry in the BFP. Pray for me as I do my sessions as it’s a little intimidating! But it’s a great faith opportunity.

       Thank you for praying!                  Brian & Christine