Rain and Floods

While we are hoping for more rain here. It seems that the Philippines is having too much of rain. Almost all of the our friends’ status update on Facebook are all about the flood.  This kind of news makes us worry too much knowing that our family is very near the major river in east [...]

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Visa Extended for Another Year

I have been pre-occupied lately doing a lot of teaching. This week a visiting teacher came to take over all the classes. I am using the time to write something in my paper which I haven’t really been doing for some time.
Nonetheless, here are our prayer update for his month.
Our non-immigrant (non-”O”) volunteer visa has [...]

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Faithful Service is a Strong Recommendation

When we are accepting students in the Bible school we require them to submit a church recommendation. Just the same, yesterday we had accepted a lady applying for a work in the nursery  and  she came with his uncle who is a pastor as her “recommendation.”
The church in Thessalonica, however, does not need a letter [...]

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Nasty Bug

It had been more than a week since I post anything here. I intend to post more regularly but events in the past had kept me away from thinking clearly. Ten of the twelve children caught a virus one after another. Perhaps it was Reuven who hosted the bug and brought it into [...]

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Praying The Psalms: The Life of Equilibrium

In Praying The Psalms, Brueggemann described the life of equilibrium as a life that of being securely oriented. We all yearn for it. Our life as missionary is full of uncertainty. Our children could not get a regular schooling not even regular home schooling just because we could not afford it. Speaking of career, I [...]

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