The above picture is from 1 of the 4 Philippines National Police Academy leadership retreats IGSL conducted over the past few weekends. Over 850 cadets heard the gospel, over half indicated they surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ!
Friends,
Thank you for praying for the police academy cadets who went through a one day leadership and spiritual retreat (we did 4 of these with over 200 at each). The result of several years of sowing into relationships and building trust with the PNPA resulted in an invitation for us to host these cadets for a retreat focused on character development in leadership.
Over 500 of the 850 police cadets indicated they surrendered their lives to Christ! Now you may have suspicion at those numbers like I did when I first heard. And culturally, there is greater receptivity to the gospel here in general. But it was a powerful time of leadership training focused on character and the heart – which provided a great opportunity to give witness to the gospel and the true source of life change and transformation.
It was an emotional time. One of the students in my Transforming leadership class right now (and a guy I play basketball with every week), Marvin, spent 9 years in prison where he came to Christ and sensed a call to enter the ministry. He shared his story and also shared his experiences with the police – both the good and ethical police as well as the corrupt. The audience was silent and eyes were big as Marvin shared. This is part of what God used to prepare their hearts when one of the police officers involved with our ministry there presented the gospel.
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Follow-up is happening right now. But how do you follow up over 500 new or re-committed believers? That’s what we’re trying to figure out right now! Follow up has begun and we’re getting some nearby churches to the PNPA involved as well. There is a new Saddleback church plant here in Manila and the pastor is an IGSL graduate and former faculty – they are helping in the follow up too as we try to get face to face with each of those cadets to help ground them in what it means to follow Christ and get them connected to local churches.
The amazing thing is the PNPA is giving access for us to follow up and has requested that we would help them in a more formal way. We are exploring offering a leadership certificate or some kind of partnership that would allow us to continue to impact this area as God is clearly at work. But leadership corruption is one of the biggest issues in this country right now and IGSL is strategically positioned to make an impact in places like the PNPA, the military, and government.
But please give thanks to God with us because lives have been transformed! Please pray for continued follow up, that cadets get connected to local churches, and that God would continue to strengthen the partnership between the PNPA and IGSL. This a great opportunity for ministry, but also for society to be impacted and transformed as well.
Thank you for praying!!
Brian and Christine
