| Dear All, Saturday’s Bottom Line: After completing the second day of his DM seminar, seven pastors and leaders signed up to join a new DM group in Anao! Scott is now in the city of La Trinidad, where he met Saturday evening with a number of local church leaders. After church on Sunday morning, he will be leading a Singles seminar that afternoon and evening. Saturday’s Prayer Requests: 1. Continued healing for Scott. All cold and flu symptoms to go and not come back. 2. Scott and all our Filipino team members and helpers to communicate clearly with each other. 3. Those who attend Sunday’s Singles seminar to have open hearts, keen insight, and the willingness to do the things they learn from Scott’s teaching.Saturday’s Details: Scott was pleased with the results of his first Raising Disciple-Makers seminar in Anao. Here are the folks who signed up to join a new DM group in Anao. We’ve learned that it’s vitally important for a new DM group to start meeting within two weeks of sign-ups, so we’re glad that this group will have its first meeting on Monday, May 6th!  New group members learning what will be involvedToday I’d like to tell you about Madam Myrna who is wearing the aqua shirt in the picture above. She is Filipino and (I think?) met her husband when he was stationed in the Philippines. They came to the States some 35+ years ago, and she attended Bible school in Arkansas. Some years later her husband passed away, and she returned to the Philippines where she started a Bible school to train pastors. Myrna is now in her 80s and still going strong, leading a five-month Bible school, and continuing to train and mentor pastors and church-planters.As a widow and ministry leader, Myrna’s title of respect is “Madam,” and she hosts various ministers and missionaries in her home. Scott stayed there for his first couple days in the Philippines. Madam Myrna is an excellent Bible teacher, but she has not experienced the disciple-making process according to the specific “Jesus pattern” that Scott teaches. He had really hoped that she would want to join this new group and participate in it for several months before her Bible school begins in the fall. He thinks she may want to offer that experience to her students so that they can also be trained to raise disciple-makers. He’s very glad that she joined the group. It’s going to be great! Like me, you may want to understand where on earth Scott is during this mission trip, so I’m going to wrap up today with a short geography lesson. Here’s a map of southeast Asia, with places where TTC is serving (plus Hong Kong, where Scott just visited our daughter) circled in red. Right now, Scott is in La Trinidad, Philippines, which isn’t indicated on this big map, but is just above the letter “a” in Manila.  The yellow ring encircles the PhilippinesThe Philippines is an extensive nation comprised of more than 7,000 islands that stretch 1,150 miles north to south and about 700 miles east to west! Here’s what it looks like superimposed on a map of the eastern United States. The Philippine islands in orange. Scott’s between Manila and Detroit! = )And here’s a detailed map of Scott’s planned in-country locations during this trip. Madam Myrna lives in Tombod (near the bottom), and Scott’s Friday afternoon and Saturday morning DM seminar was in Anao (at the bottom), about 30 minutes south of Tombod. Scott’s expected Philippine travels during this mission tripFollowing that first DM seminar, on Saturday afternoon, he drove about two hours north from Anao to La Trinidad (in the middle), which is where he is now. In La Trinidad he’ll preach Sunday morning, hold a Singles seminar Sunday afternoon/evening, and lead a Raising Champions parenting seminar on Monday.My Hero is not bored! Would you take a moment to pray for him now? Thank you! Patty |
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