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Category: Thoughts

  • Photos Aug 19-21

  • Ramadan Fellowship

    In the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast for about 30 days.  It so happens that the time Eugene and I spend here in Zamboanga, the Muslim communities rather do activities after late afternoon because most of them sleep approx between 7am to 3pm or so. Today, we went to fish pond to continue our relational…

  • 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…

  • Philippines 2010:August 7th-28th

    Dear BASIC, Once again, this summer two individuals, Greg Tam and Eugene Wong, will be journeying back to the Philippines to serve along side MUPT and continuing their relational building with the community they reached out to last year in Zamboanga City. God has blessed these two by allowing them to take time off from…

  • Philippines Team: Update #11

    I apologize for not updating daily.  With the compact scheduling (trainings, meeting, preparing, language lessons, etc…) the three of us were exhausted by the time we went back to Kuya Jerry’s place (where we were staying). So right now, as you are reading this, all of us are back safely in Davao City where where…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…