Category: Prayers
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Zamboanga Street Walk
As Eugene, myself and the rest of the MUPT team were arriving to our street level community during our street walk on Friday, it was not how I imagined it would be.  Maybe it was because I had experienced the street youth’s warm welcome  in Davao so many times I selfishly wished it would be…
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Eugene’s Prayer Request
Prior to last year’s trip to the Philippines, my mother had told me that I will certainly be blessed by the trip. I was skeptical and didn’t believe her. But after last year’s trip, I felt that I got more out of it than the local Muslims we ministered to. This year I felt that…
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Greg’s Prayer Request
God is certainly great! Another opportunity to continue where I left off last year; furthering my relationships in a Godly manner with the local Filipino community in Zamboanga City. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to go on a STM this year due to a lot of uncertainties, but God…
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Philippines Team: Update #10
Before our 3rd session for the computer training in Rio Hondo, we had a team (MUPT) meeting to debrief about the first two sessions. For the most part, I think both went well in terms of execution and the community really responded well to the training; however, there’s always room for improvement! We were reminded…
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Philippines Team: Update #9 – prayer request
After two days of training on how to operate a computer, we realized that even tho out students have minimal, and sometimes no experience with computer, they are, in fact, very eager to learn. we were and will continue to cultivate our relationship with them so that they won’t look at us as teachers and…
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Philippines Team: Update #8
On Tuesday, we spent most of our morning preparing our lesson plan for Wednesday’s computer training. Please pray that the lesson will go well and to be able to communicate the lesson effectively. We also had our first language lessons, and we each had our own personal tutor (compliments of the Rio Hondo community). Please…
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Philippines Team: Update #7
On day 3 in Zamboanga, Ate Loyda, Ate Sol, Kuya Jerry, and Kuya Bobong, showed us more of what the town has to offer. We went to the local Palengke (fish market), City Hall, and the National Museum of Zamboanga. Later that evening, we went to Rio Hondo to shadow Ate Loyda and Kuya Jerry…
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philippines team update #6
Just this past saturday, there were nothing planned, so we just packed our stuff and prepare ourselves for what was coming ahead in Zamboanga! We went to the local mall to pick up last minute computer parts in order for all of our laptops to be able to access the internet. We met up with…
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Philippines Team: Update #5
Sorry for the delayed posting. On friday, we didn’t have much orientation but we still had a lot going on. Cheryl took us to Isla verde where we talked with some more familiar faces, at least for me. I also worked with this group last year helping them setup a website for their livelihood of…
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Update #1
From e-mail =P Hello BASIC, It has certainly been a busy week for the team and I. We have been working hard to make 9 laptops we received from donations by our members from church as well as a sole company provider who offered to donate basically as many computers as we needed (older models…