Philippines Missions

Philippines ministry continues

Saturday, October 31, 2009

One might think that our ministry to Philippines is over since we are back in the US.
But I am still in almost daily contact with many of the people I met there. Recently, I spoke with one of the young people and explained "speaking in tongues" and what it means to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Many of the youth are hungry for the deeper things in God and they need a teacher.
Please pray for our need to provide teaching materials to the youth of the Philippines, they need to know about the Holy Ghost, healing and the greater works of God.

New Healing reports from the Philippines

Great news from the Philippines. Flor Capilitan emailed me today with news from the Initao church of Pastor Lumbab. She also reported news about the baby with a tumor, (I posted in an earlier post) and about her nephew. Here is her email when she writes about the miracles,

"From Pastor Lumbab Church located at initao. A child was healed from the wound caused by fungus without applying medicine that through your prayer alone the child wound was healed testified by pastor lumbab. Two babies from the church pastored by pastor saluna was healed from sickness one is that having tumor at the back of her head i personally met the child and the grandmother........My nephew got healed from swelling of both feet & legs(beriberi)my mother got healed from back ache and shoulder without applying medicine praise the Lord for the instant help.We have motto" sa hirap ng panahon ngayon bawal magkasakit"(due to difficulties avoid sickness)."

Praise the Lord for these healing reports! All glory to the Lord.

Shabach, Church of Jesus Christ Cagayan De Oro

Saturday, October 24, 2009

This is the Church of Jesus Chirst in Cagayan De Oro. Cagayan is a city on the northern part of Mindanano. This church is in a village in the city, but there are no roads leading to this church. There is a path that you wallk inbetween the houses. This path opens up to a small lot on which that this church is being built. It is only about 10% complete but that does not prevent the saints from meeting. It is pastored by Pastor Barrero. He is pictured below standing by me in the red shirt.
The day I visited this church the Lord led me to teach the people about Shabach. Shabach is a hebrew word for "praise" that means to shout to the Lord with an "earsplitting sound." As soon as I showed the people to shout at the top of their voice and sing praises, they began to shout and praise. The Spirit fell and soon the people began to praise the Lord with zeal. The Spirit took over and I eventually lost the service to the Holy Ghost. I finally sat down and let them praise the Lord.
There is no sound system. The only music is a guitar.
I had a DVR and recorded the message, it was able to pick up most of the praise. It is inspiring to listen to the Philippino to praise the Lord with such zeal, and fire of spirit.

Below are pictures of the house church called Jesus Chirst Great God of the World church. This church is several miles farther out from the Church pastored by pastor Suluna. It is very far out in the jungle mountain area. This church is pastored by pastor Jalagat. The day we were there was very hot, but the Lord met us. We sang and worshiped the Lord together and then prayed for every person there. Pastor Jalagat had 10-15 young people there, they were very shy however none refused prayer.
After the meeting we went to another room in the hose and took our lunch. There was fish and rice and roasted bannana. And we had more the sweet coconut milk drink Fellowship was good with much singing and Love of God.

Here is the Church of Jesus Christ in the mountains near Initao. I wrote about this church in an earlier post called "the story of Pepito." There was a baby here who had a very bad tumor on the back of its head. I was told it was caused my malunutrion.

I just got an email from the Philippines with a report that the baby was healed at our prayer of faith. No medicine was applied.

Sis Flor writes,

"Praise the Lord! Pastor Winston and I just arrive from Initao to met the child and all the ministers. The child was completely healed from tumor without applying medicine just through your prayer the baby got healed."

As I have told this story, several people have asked about how they can help this family. Sis Flor writes that this family of 5 can survive on a bag of rice for 2000 pesos a month or $40, formula for the baby is 1,900 and vitamins are 399, for a total of about $92.

If you are interested in helping with this family please contact me. Sis Flor will buy the food directly and distribute and provide reciepts with signatures of the recipients. Every dollar will go to feed the hungry, 100%.