Winter 2017 · Trumpet Report
Mandaluyong City Sends Out New Workers
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
- Pastor
- Alberto Desepida
- Correspondent
- Gilbert Hernandez
Greetings from Mandaluyong City, Philippines. It’s always an honor and privilege to be able to proclaim what God is doing in our church. The last six months was very fruit- 25 ful, as we witnessed the great things that God is doing in our church. God is raising up disciple-workers needed to fulfill our calling to call souls into His Kingdom. Early this mpact in Kitwe, Zambia year, God gave us the opportunity to minister to street kids in our city. It started as a regular Thursday afternoon Bible study where we gathered the children in the slum area to share with them God’s Word Conference b through Bible sto- Philippines pr ries. We now have six teams of teach- Dubai (top) a ers ministering to more than 200 children in our city every Thursday and Saturday. As a result, our Children’s Church and Sunday school have multiplied with some of the kids learning to minister also to others.
God has also opened the door for us to minister to the Boys’ and Girls’ Juvenile Centers where some of our disciples are able to witness and introduce the love of Jesus to the wayward youth. Some of the young boys in the Center are now given permission to attend our regular church services, as the Center’s officials observe some changes in their character.
In August, we had a series of revival services with Evangelist Dennis Wright, where many people got healed and were given words of wisdom. In the first week of September, Pastor Victor Borja from Saipan came for our annual Men’s Rally where we had more than 200 men who were stirred to make a difference through their lives for Kingdom purposes. In the last week of September, we had Pastor Dinh Luu from Sydney, Australia for revival and the church was inspired again by the diversity of people God is using powerfully in our fellowship. body in Mandaluyong City, rays for missionaries sent into and Indonesia.
In our Bi-annual Bible Conference in November, God’s Spirit moved powerfully as seasoned messages from Pastor Joe Campbell, Pastor Sergei Golubev, Pastor Glen Cluck and some of our local leaders were proclaimed.
This is our first International Bible Conference, as delegates from Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand came. In a seminar on Wednesday morning, Pastor Campbell challenged the conference body to give sacrificially; that Wednesday night, he spoke again to receive the offering that he challenged that morning, and praise God, that single offering was enough to cover the total conference expenses!
But still the highlight of the conference was Friday night’s announcement. Four couples were sent out to pioneer locally and two couples to missionary works to Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. Hallelujah!
Please continue to pray for our church and all the churches in the Philippines as we also pray for you.