| Dear All, Friday’s Bottom Line: Scott had a good DM seminar in Villasis, and will have another one in Anao on Saturday. His schedule is packed over the next week, and he’s doing well but is quite tired by the end of each day. He really appreciates your prayers! Friday’s Prayer Requests: 1. The leaders Wilson and Angelica have been training to be well able to manage the growth of multiple new groups forming. 2. Scott to have wisdom concerning his meeting next Monday with Pastor Gil about how his PCEC organization might partner with Take the Challenge. 3. Physical strength for Scott; in addition to presenting multiple DM seminars, he has many specific meetings (some with various groups, some one-on-one) to prepare for. |
| Friday’s Details: 50 people had registered for Friday’s DM seminar in Villasis, but none of them had paid, so we weren’t sure how many would actually be there. 82 people came! |
 Disciple-makers seminar in Villasis |
| Scott’s primary target audience is pastors, because he has learned that the process of raising disciple-makers in a church simply doesn’t happen if the pastor doesn’t have a vision for it. Although many of the people at Friday’s seminar are not pastors, and many of them are already members of a disciple-maker groups, there was enough interest among the attendees to start at least one new in-person group and probably another online group, so we are encouraged. The Raising Disciple Makers book — which clearly explains both why raising disciple-makers is vitally important and the specifics of one effective way to do it — is selling well, and we are so pleased that this critical message is being spread to more and more people. In fact, at his earlier seminar in Moncada, some people asked Scott to autograph his book! |
 My Hero, famous author = ) |
| Those of you who know Scott personally can testify that he is a high-energy guy, and when he’s on a mission trip his pace is usually, well… intense, to say the least. This trip is no exception, and between meetings and travel his schedule is quite full. He does have one planned day off on March 28, but that’s three weeks away, so prayers for wisdom as he balances essential events with rest are appreciated. |
| And, as promised, here are a couple non-ministry pictures. Scott said, “Surely, the fields are ripe for harvest here in the Philippines!” |
 This corn is taller than Scott! |
| Even those of us who are not farmers know that raising grain crops is a long process. Hmm… that’s kind of like raising disciple-makers… Selah. Anyway, I already knew that farmers have to prepare the soil, plant the seed, tend the plants, eliminate the weeds, and harvest the corn or wheat. But I never thought about the fact that with, for example, wheat, you also have to DRY the grain, and Scott found the local method of drying grain very interesting. They spread it out in the sun on a hard surface! Scott said, “This man is spreading the grain for drying early this morning. The concrete pad is part of a bypass being constructed a block from Myrna’s place in Tombod.” (I was wrong yesterday; I think this is wheat, not corn.) |
 Drying the grain, where the rubber doesn’t yet meet the road ; ) |
| And if you wonder about those neat lines of grain, here’s a video clip of how they got there. Thank you for PRAYING for Scott again today. We know your prayers are paving the way for people in the Philippines to receive and reproduce the disciple-making process this week! Blessings, Patty |