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<\/p>\nAs guest house managers, we serve 12 missionary families on this island and last week Tim, our chairman, and I had the opportunity to visit one of our remote tribal works where Ray\u00a0 ministers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have helped with this work in many ways.\u00a0 Purchasing groceries and building supplies for them and shipping these items to them.\u00a0 Also helping with the medical and housing of sick tribal people.\u00a0 It was good to get out and see one this first hand.<\/p>\n
This work is located on the northwest side of this island. The first leg of this trip was a short ride to our bus terminal.\u00a0 From there we took a Jeepney, named Dexter.\u00a0 It was a 7 hour drive.\u00a0 We arrive at the terminal at 8 am, the stated departure time.\u00a0 We left about 8:30\u00a0 only to go a few hundred yards to the nearest gas station.\u00a0 There, we filled several large containers with diesel, some of which were for Ray.\u00a0 We were on the road by 9 am.\u00a0 The jeepney overflowed with people and cargo inside.\u00a0 Then more cargo and diesel was stacked on the roof.\u00a0 Not too sure about the cooling system, but there was some kind of water reservoir on the roof which dripped on us.\u00a0 Apparently, when the engine would overheat, the driver would open a valve to fill the radiator.\u00a0 The valve did leak and every time he would fill it, I would get water splashed in my face.\u00a0 There was no front window so we were cruising along at as much as 50 miles an hour with the wind in our face.\u00a0 By the end of the day, I had a windburn.<\/p>\n
We did stop at 11:30 am for lunch at the bus terminal at a medium size town north of here.\u00a0 I ordered rice.\u00a0 It was served with a bowl of “possibly” chicken broth.\u00a0 It was very good.\u00a0 I think it cost all of 40 cents.\u00a0 Then we all climbed back into the van and continued north.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before the paved highway ended.\u00a0 Actually they were doing highway construction.\u00a0 There were some dirt sections which periodically changed into a one lane paved road that both the incoming and outgoing traffic shared.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eventually we reached the place where we needed to cross the island (east to west).\u00a0 Another two hours on a dusty bumpy road!\u00a0 We were grateful it was dry season.\u00a0 Apparently Dexter runs “rain or shine”.\u00a0 However we could see places that would be all but impassable during rainy season.<\/p>\n
We did arrive at Ray’s place about 3:30 pm.\u00a0 It was a beautiful location right on the South China Sea.\u00a0 For a “bachelor”, Ray did reward us with a wonderful meal of Hungarian Sausages and rice with a peanut sauce.\u00a0 (Ray’s wife Chris and their partners, Danny and Philippa,\u00a0 are presently on furlough.\u00a0 Many of the people there are Central Tagbanwas.\u00a0 Their language has died out and they now speak the Cuyonon language.\u00a0 There are also many outsiders who have moved into this area and they speak the Tagalog language.\u00a0 These two families are working with these people in both languages.\u00a0 Ray and Chris\u00a0 were the first to move in.\u00a0 The arrived in this area in 2002.\u00a0 At that time there was no road and they had to come up to east coast\u00a0 by boat.\u00a0 Ray and Chris completed their language and culture study and presented the gospel in 2008.\u00a0 Now they have a group of 5o believers and are continuing the outreach to this community.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
While there we did enjoy a swim in to ocean.\u00a0 The Water was warm and the Jellyfish were not the kind that sting you.\u00a0 I did have an interesting trip back.\u00a0 First two house was in a Jeepney that was “packed” with people.\u00a0 Then I had to take three different vans to get to town and I opted to walk the last mile.\u00a0 It’s wonderful to see what God is doing in this very remote area.<\/p>\n As guest house managers, we serve 12 missionary families on this island and last week Tim, our chairman, and I had the opportunity to visit one of our remote tribal works where Ray\u00a0 ministers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have helped with this work in many ways.\u00a0 Purchasing groceries and building supplies for them and shipping these items to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Darryl](\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/darryl-jordan\/files\/2010\/03\/Darryl-and-Tim-take-a-Jeepney-to-Lumambong-web--300x225.jpg\")