Philippines prayer and support

Dear Family & Friends This is the kind of letter that no one wants to write, and yet it must be written. Many of you have heard me talk about Brother John Durrah (Bishop) the man that started the ministry I work with in the Philippines. Bishop and I got very close in the 3 [...]

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warfare pt3

In September 2006 I moved to the Philippines, I was living with and taking care of 2 girls in the home for the children, starting a youth group and doing my best to learn Tagalog (Filipino). I didn’t really know what to expect when I moved there, but I was not expecting to find such [...]

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Spiritual Warfare part 2

Welcome to part two J     would love to hear your thoughts…ideas…experiences…. comments anything and everything! love you guys!!!! pau   After my conversation with the girls we had dinner and then I laid down in the girls’ house to pray while they slept. I was honestly expecting to get little to no sleep [...]

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Spiritual warfare pt. 1 (part 2 of ‘refocus’)

As I settle into a nice time of rest in the States, I now have time to go back and give you the “rest of the story”.  I posted a few weeks back something about several of my friends and fellow ministry workers getting sick. So this is the continuation of that story. (the post [...]

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God bless you!… backwards?

As you probably already know, I moved to the Philippines when I was 16 to begin doing ministry there. This first year of ministry, I was the house mother for the girls in the Home for the Children. We had two girls at the time Nenita (age 11) and Renalyn (about to be 10)   [...]

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Not MY Jeffery (Holy week/Easter pt. 2)

I didn’t have internet for about a week, so you are getting several updates at once. …  I went yesterday to Amsic (local extremely poor neighborhood), to visit one of my youth there(jeffery -age 16)…the older brother of two of the boys(Jaymel 15 and Jomar 9) who live on campus in our home for the children. Jaymel [...]

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Easter in the Philippines

While most americans celebrate easter with cute little bunnies and easter eggs (refrains from going on a rant)…Filipinos celebrate Easter/holy week in an entirely different way. I was able to see some of it last year, but didn’t realize the extent of the pain and deception going on in this country until this year.  Some [...]

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Lyssa’s story…part 1

This girl I know personally, and as I am writing this she is still in this situation,  I met this girl, we will call her “Lyssa” (real name not written for protection for the child) when she was about 12 years old. Now She is 15. For the first 2 years that I knew Lyssa [...]

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