People

This is a small portion of the association of churches that we work with. It was at a conference that I mentioned in the previous post. This group of seventy churches come from basically four regions in the Philippines. This particular conference is being conducted in the Central Visayas, where we live. This is a big advantage for us since that means that they predominantly speak the language that we understand.

Think of that for a minute, when these churches get together they have five languages they can choose from. Most people can speak three of the five (of course which three does tend to vary) so they are much more adept at these things than I am!

Currently we are seeking to move out of the large city we have lived in for the past 22 years and move to the much smaller city of Naga (80,000 population) but we are having a hard time finding housing. Please pray. We want to be there to help set up a Study/Tutorial Center that will enable us to supplement the education that the kids are getting in the public school. I just recently heard of one city's educational system with 40,000 students, 5,000 more than last school year, that has a student to teacher ration of 60 to 1.

We want to find a house that someone will long term rent to us, cheap! I know, doesn't eveyone, but we really feel like we could use this to find a way to meet observed and felt needs in the community.