Pray for Uno

April 1, 2016

This coming Sunday a Manubu’ Bible teacher will begin to teach the 40 lesson evangelistic phase of the chronological teaching program at a large village we’ll call Uno. There are a number of good-works-for-eternal-salvation churches there including ones that emphasis experience over biblical truth. Mahan tried to start teaching the evangelistic phase there a few […]

The Normal Heart and the Helicopter

July 19, 2015

First Gene’s Heart PRAISE the Lord with us. Gene had an appointment with his cardiologists, Dr Alagadan and Dr Rocha (cardiac surgeon) earlier this month. He had had an echo-cardiogram done shortly after his heart attack in May last year. It showed three areas of weakness as a result of the heart attack. Dr Rocha […]

Out Of Darkness Into God’s Light

February 21, 2015

In our last update we said, “Two young men visiting the Philippines from England will be coming to us and one of them is an expert at shooting and editing videos.” Ric, the video guy, and Dom, his friend, did come and there is now a video of our ministry here among the Manubu’ people […]

Danilu Returns!

January 1, 2014

Danilu was the first Manubu’ Bible teacher. Over 20 years ago he said to Gene, I’d like to teach God’s word to my people. Shortly after he started teaching his father-in-law said to him, “If you continue to teach what the Americans taught you I’ll kill you,” When Danilu continued to teach God’s word his […]

The Seed Isn’t Yet, but the Water Buffalo See

March 21, 2013

The water buffalo that were blind with a white covering over their eyes are now seeing again thanks to advice from a friend in one of our supporting churches. Squirts of pure coconut oil in the eye daily have done wonders. It turned out that there were only two water buffalo owned by people here […]

Typhoon Aftermath

December 12, 2012

The Manubu’ have been hit hard by the typhoon. For the past few years their main source of income has been harvesting trees that they plant and selling the logs. They say that most of those trees were blown over by the typhoon while still too small to harvest. Most of the logs they had […]

Hit by a Typhoon

December 4, 2012

You may have heard that a typhoon hit our island today. Just want to let you know how we and the Manubu’ here in our village fared. Still raining some as we write this, although the wind has stopped. This was the strongest typhoon we have experienced. Our 60ft high cell phone antenna pole broke […]