David and Norma Nhan dropped by and we asked them to share about their ministry here. They are reaching out to mainland Chinese, mainly business persons and finding very hard ground, for these people are fairly wealthy and very focused on making money. But these people have seen the difference in David and Norma and curious why they act differently from their normal colleagues. The Nhans are also working with the very poor mountain tribe people on a different end of the money spectrum, who are attracted by the gifts and not the spiritual matters. Beggars have sprung up in the last ten years in Cebu and materialism gotten worse. We prayed for the Nhans and they also prayed for us. It was a fruitful time together. We then did a practice session of praying for someone (who we didn't know for our eyes were closed) as an exercise of listening to God. Many of the prayers were right on and encouraged us to listen to God when we pray. So we missed our concert performance but had a great time instead.
After lunch, Eugene, Andrew, Israel, Gentle, Joyce and Hannah went with Joel to CFA to prepare for tonight's homeless children feeding (which was not cancelled because the typhoon has passed and it was not even raining anymore). The rest of us stayed at the church to work through the skits we hope to do at PGCS elementary classes tomorrow (God willing) and to sort through the clothing and toys brother Carlos brought for TLCC to bring to Barili. Samantha's mom had also had her sewing club make some girl clothes which we will add to the stack. Brother Alex showed up with another surprise for us, a huge crate full of just picked mangosteen which he had airfreight from the island of Zamboanga in Mindanao, about 150 miles away. The quality of these fruit were outstanding. We returned to our hotel. Bethany seems better but Jayme was tired so she went to sleep early. David and Norma dropped by during dinner time to bring us some homemade dessert, a rice pudding with sweet glazing on top (don't remember the name). The CFA team returned about 7:30 and we turned in early since we think we have a go with the else,entry children at PCGS early tomorrow.
Thursday, July 17
We woke up early to go to PCGS, not far away but terrible traffic congestion getting there. Everyone was at breakfast, but we decided to let Meghan stay behind and recover. Bethany is still congested and Eugene did not sleep well last night. We got to PGCS by 7:30 and warmed up for a few minutes before the fourth to sixth grade students came in at 8. We sang several songs, Israel shared his testimony, followed by the balloon (forgiveness) skit. Diana took this theme and gave a short message on how Joseph forgave his brothers. A handful of the students indicated their desire to accept Christ following the message. After the older students left, the first to third graders came in (the room sits about 120 or so). These younger ones were even more energetic and raucous. We did a similar program but substituted some new songs and Raymond gave the message instead of Diana and Andrew shared his testimony. Most of these children followed Ray in the prayer to accept Christ. Since our program to the high schoolers yesterday was cancelled, the school asked us to come back next week so we scheduled to go there next Thursday, even though this will cut into our planned debriefing time. We just have to trust God and debrief whenever we can. We returned to TLCC, Eugene and Bethany returned to the hotel to rest more while we practiced our skits, ate lunch, practiced the hearing God prayers, and had our devotions.
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