Author: Jonathan and Heidi Bamford

We always enjoy having visitors stop in.  Most of the spiders that come by for a visit are not nearly as colorful as this guy. We also had a very nice weekend with Anja, who works in our Manila office, and John, who works in our Florida, USA office, along with John’s daughter, Joy.  We […]

Today was Election Day here in the Philippines and if you look at web sites that have news from the Philippines you will see stories about exit polls. There are many to choose from. I hate to brag, but if you want to know about Post-Election poles you will have to read it here. This […]

April was crazy busy and the one-after-the-other string of events continued right up until the end of the month. Last week our neighbor, Nora, died and the village had a wake that lasted several nights. Nora suffered from a long term illness and doctors didn’t know how to help her. Back when she was still […]

            When the Isnag farmers have cut all the brush on their fields, they need to burn it before they can start planting. A good burn will mean less clean-up work and less weeding later on. The question is: When is the optimum time to burn? They count the days […]

“What’s cooking?” You ask. ‘There are many possible answers. Last week we finished our field leadership team meetings a day early so I decided to use my free day in the big city by visiting a plastic surgeon. Well, actually I was expecting to visit a dermatologist about a spot on my face, but when […]

Dear Praying Friends,             We arrived in Manila and had three days of field leadership meetings last week. Today we have a few hours’ worth of items to cover and we are hoping to be finished by lunch time. I am glad to work with these very patient guys who […]

Dear Praying Friends,               This past week has been a bit of an obstacle course race and we were thankful to get to the end of the week and find that many things were accomplished. The set of helpers that were working on the latest draft of Acts finished […]

Dear Praying Friends, Thank you for praying for Vicky. She is recovering from her ear infection and hopes to be able to join us in the village this week.             We have missed having Vicky and the Maynard family with us but our Isnag friends have kept us supplied with […]

Dear Praying Friends, Please keep praying for our partner, Vicky. She is out at town working on getting rid of a bad ear infection and tooth pain.             Vicky and her friend Linda There is a group that sponsors the printing of Bible story books for children. This past month, […]

Dear Praying Friends, This past week was one of varied activities.             First of all, we had visitors. We were very glad to have our pilot’s family for a visit. Brian and Katherine serve with NTM Aviation and we really appreciate all that they do to support our ministry here. […]