Busy schedule, please pray

Please keep praying for the conference and for Martha, Mama and me. Pray for safe travels, strength, endurance and for God to give us the words to say as we serve Jesus here in the Philippines.

Our schedule is about to get even busier. Today (Tuesday), Martha and Mama will both speak to the pastors and missionaries wives and I will speak twice. Then we will travel five hours to Ozmas City and spend the night. That is where Pastor Jun Begafria’s church is located. He is the senior pastor of the group of churches that make up the Shiloh Bible Baptist Church family.

Early Wednesday morning, I will preach there, then we will drive about six hours to Salug where I will preach an afternoon service at Pastor Clemente’s church. There we will also get to see the land Love In Action helped purchase for Pastor Clemente’s church to build a church building. They do not have the funds yet, at least they have the land. That’s a great start.

Then we will travel back to Sindangan and spend the night. Thursday morning we will drive two hours to Punta, which is just outside of Dipolog City.I will preach that afternoon at Pastor Mario Montero’s church. We will spend the night in Dipolog City Thursday night, and fly to Manila from Dipolog to begin our journey back home Friday morning.

We will spend the night in Manila on Friday, so pray for a good night’s rest as we begin our 18 hours in the air trip back to Atlanta Saturday morning . We will have a 2.5 hour layover in Tokyo, Japan. Once in Atlanta it will be just a 3.5 hour drive back to Sweet Home Alabama.

Though we will be glad to be back home with family and friends, we are going to miss the Philippines. We have totally fallen in love with the people here. We are thankful for our new brothers, sisters, and friends, and we are thankful that we have already begun planning for our next trip here in 2013. Praise God!