September PAMI Newsletter
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VOICE Seminar Equips Ministry in Public Schools
8-18-10 texts from Ptr Chito Mendizabal:
Hi bro mike and all! Praise God for all your hearts for God’s mission. God remembers all. As of the moment we have a seminar here at ebi. This is VOICE, teaching values education in public school, elem. and high school. Included in it is gov’t endorsement, curriculum, teacher’s manual, visual mtls and students lessons. Many churches attended. We’ll be starting this month in elem. first. Read More
Ministry to Kids and Construction of Building for Them
New kids building being used for the first time on Aug 15 after steel roof and cement floor were added.
Praise God that the new kids’ building at EBI is now finished enough to be useable! After about two months of construction and $2500 spent so far, the cement walls and floor, and steel roof are now in place. But approximately another $1500 is desired to finish it (adding electrical, plastering of walls inside and outside, steel window frames and glass, and installing comfort room and sink). Please consider helping with this.
This building will especially be a big asset to the Compassion ministry. It will be a “home” for the 101 Compassion kids to gather, display their artwork, and call their own. Medical, dental, and other services will be rendered there. Tables, chairs, teaching aides, and supplies will be stored there. It will also be an office for adminstrative work. Furthermore, since this building is a big improvement to our facility, it’s probable that Compassion will increase the number of sponsored kids to 150 by 2011!
Below are photos and a report from Ptr Chito that describes their gratefulness and gives more details, history, and other facets of PAMI’s ministry to children: Read More
PAMI Strategy to Spread Further South with EBI Students from Those Places
This year, we started to plant a church/mission in Visayas region. Isomel Espinar (one of our EBI graduates from Samar) starts the work in Calbayog City, Western Samar. He is best candidate to do the job because he speaks the same dialect with the local people. And they ( with his sister Icy, {EBI graduate too}, and an EBI intern Dwight Lumberio) are having nice start as they already have Home Bible studies. Please continue to pray for Isomel, Icy and Dwight and Visayas ministry. (Note: Iso and Icy still need sponsors to cover about $100 per month allowance, $35 per month rent, and $25 per month to start a children’s milk feeding ministry like done in most other PAMI locations.)
Next mission thrust is to open ministry in Mindanao. This was a long-time prayer which begun even from the heart of our beloved first missionary Rev. Norval Thorud. One of our strategies in opening mission is to train leaders from its native place and send him/her back to his own people to bring the Good News. This is more effective than sending a pastor/worker which was oftentimes rejected/persecuted by native people because of different dialect, treated with caution being an intruder. Read More
Small Groups at EBI Named after Virtues
VSG leaders meeting which includes: Small groups of Gentleness, Love, Patience, Wisdom, Perseverance, Hope, Grace, Humility, Meekness, Mercy, Peace, Faith and Joy.
From an Aug 12th email from Ptr Chito
VIRTUES SMALL GROUPS. Last week of June 2010, we mobilized and involved every person of Emmaus Church into a small groups. These include church members, parents of compassion children, EBI staff and students and outreaches. This is to become good steward of all the people that God has entrusted to our care. To make a disciple of every believer. To have deeper relationship with people whom we are ministering in the true meaning of fellowship (koinonia) or one anothering (sharing, praying, helping…one another). Read More
Construction of New Compassion Building at EBI
Construction is underway for a new building to support the Compassion site at EBI. Through Compassion International, 100 local Filipino children are sponsored, and come with their parents every week and receive Bible instruction, training in practical skills, medical care, school supplies, etc. PAMI is raising funds for the construction of a new building to house the Compassion program. The total cost of the building is $3000. PAMI has so far raised $2000 towards this project, and construction has started. We need $1000 more to complete the building. Would you consider a donation to partner with us in this ministry?
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New Water Source at EBI
Praise God that things are getting back to normal. No more rushing to the river as early as 4 AM. Now that we already have water connection fromcity water supply. Though the supply is not that big. In fact, in our application, they let the applicant sign a waiver that says “no 24 hours supply of water.” In our seminar, they told us that 3 springs (sources) had dried too. Their water supply comes from 7 pumping stations (drilled 100 meters deep). So, they regulated the supply of water, as I look at it, supply is made from 4AM until 4PM. So we have to fill all containers to be sure that we have enough water during the cut.
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EBI Water Shortage
These are some recent texts from Ptr Chito:
“Great is our need for water here in Sorsogon due to 3months straight of no rain. Both of EBI’s hand-pump wells went dry. Our situation here in the Bible school becomes worse now that school is on. About 50 of us are going to the river (about 1 mile away) morning and afternoon for our water needs–cooking, drinking, cleaning, bathing, washing, and kids building construction (water for cement). We’re considering to temporarily stop the Bible school and just resume when rain comes, but students are persevering. Praise God for resilient students and hardworking ones who are daily fetching water. Construction is on-going, and all EBI, church, E2E and Compassion activities.”
Updates, Praises, and Prayer Requests
The richest grace of God in Christ Jesus!
I [have had] some problems with regards to the laptop program. Prior to receiving your Windows 7, I tried hard enough for the printer/scanner to connect to the laptop because I’m preparing the lessons/hardcopy for students use. Besides that I have to submit some documents to compassion office in pdf/scanned for faster transactions. But as if that compaq only receives windows vista; not the lower windows (1998, 2000, 2003 or XP) as those are compatibles with our printers/scanners here. So, when I received your package/box, I was so excited to the possibility that Windows7 is the solution. I immediately downloaded Windows7, disregarding the warning of saving important program first for back up. Good that I did some in USB flashdrive, because other programs were lost when I upgraded windows vista to windows7, including the internet configurations. Anyway, Brother Mario (Gacis), installed me Linnux which I’m using now.
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End-to-End Training at EBI
Greetings in Christ! Thank God for giving us another opportunity to serve Him in varied ways. This time, a complete program of planting/starting a church, the End to End Program. This starts with Acclaimer (The Jesus’ film, available in any dialects – message of salvation); followed-up by the Proclaimer, audio Bible of NT (Mat-Rev), forming a BLG, Bible listening group of 7 above for a regular Bible study (at least 1/wk); and giving each attendee a copy of Bible. This is not only evangelism but helping the new believer grow in the Lord through regular study of God’s Word (Matt 29:19-20); and eventually starting a small group or a local church.
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