Short term mission trip
March 2013 Philippine Mission Visit of Mike, Ben & Pam
Dear friends and relatives,
Wow! It’s hard to believe it’s just one week until our three week mission visit to the Philippines begins. Please remember to pray for our preparations and trip. We feel your prayers make a big difference. This post includes information about our visit so you better know what to pray for. In particular, please refer to the tentative trip schedule below.
Above is a photo prayer reminder card to print and put on your refrigerator, bathroom mirror, Bible, etc. to help you to remember us. Also attached is a prayer/support request letter written by Ben & Pam on behalf of all three of us. By the way, our request for help with trip expenses is more to cover help to the mission than our own personal expenses. Whenever I go to the Philippines, I usually cover personal airfare and travel expenses myself. That way whatever is given by others simply goes towards helping the ministry. This includes extra love gifts for the pastors and churches we visit (including monetary and physical gifts). Some things will be hand-carried and some were shipped by surface ahead of time (please pray the 3 big balikbayan boxes arrive safely before we do)*. Items for the field include a new and used laptop, new camera, 3 used projectors, printer, guitar, new & used clothes, personal hygiene items, snacks, toys, and a couple hundred pounds of used Christian books. We also might like to fund a couple special projects. Overall, we could use $3000-5000 for extra ministry expenses.
* Note: As of Feb 26, 2 of the 3 boxes just arrived!
If you want to give towards trip/mission expenses, just make out a check to PAMI with “team visit” written in the memo line, and mail to: PAMI, P.O. Box 201444, Bloomington, MN 55420-6444. You can also donate via credit card or Paypal on the donate tab of our website (www.pamimission.org/donate). Whatever means you use to donate, a tax-deductible receipt will be returned to you.
Besides team visit expenses, on-going mission support is also desired. We’d especially like to add new workers. We’d like to retain 2 or 3 EBI graduates at about $75 per month each. We’re also considering adding a pastor family to begin work in the Muslim area of the southern island of Mindanao, which has been a long-time goal of PAMI. I look forward to discussing these prospects with potential candidates as part of this visit. Read More
Reports from EBI student interns
These are reports from two students supported by the youth group of Trinity E. Free Church of Lakeville, MN. Other EBI students could use sponsorship at $30 per month to help cover some of their expenses too. See previous posts for more info:
http://ec2-3-90-243-237.compute-1.amazonaws.com/2011/03/15/ministry-of-intern-student-jess-huab/
http://ec2-3-90-243-237.compute-1.amazonaws.com/2010/09/27/raising-up-new-ministers-for-christ/
From Brother Jess Huab
To Brother Mike and Trinity Youth,
To God be the Glory! Thank you for your supporting me and your encouraging letters. I’m sorry that that I have a hard time to answer your letters because of my condition being an intern student. I seldom go to Emmaus, and I stay most of my time in a very remote village called Cawayan. This place is my burden because this place is where my roots come from. I pray that they will be saved too. Read More
Sept 2011 PAMI Newsletter
The September 2011 PAMI Newsletter is now available. Click here.
Report from Bulan Church
One of the 2nd story rooms being added to the parsonage portion of the Bulan Church.
3rd Quarter Report from Pastor Virgilio Fulo
Construction of Pastoral house update:
After 25 days of working at least 80% of construction has been finished. This will be the last week of work and the expenses will be 135,000.00 Philippines currency ($3200). 110, 000 ($2600) from Ptr. Jun plus the 500 dollars from Mike. The remaining work to be done for instance, finishing of the walls inside and outside. Widening the ladder and finishing, we still need financial to be completed. This is our prayer request.
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Updates from Barcelona, Casiguran, Bulusan & Castilla Churches
BARCELONA PAMI UPDATES
Dear Brother Mike & PAMI Board,
Greetings of love, joy and peace. Grace be to you and blessings from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Outreaches:
Barcelona Christian Church presently on its process of expanding its ministry to our nearby barangays.
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Update on Compassion and EBI Kids building
Kids receive new umbrellas from Compassion.
New kids building at EBI.
Compassion has been impressed so far with how well EBI has administrated their program. They’ve also been impressed with how our facility has improved with the addition of a new kids building. In turn, they’ve allowed an additional 60 kids to be sponsored, bringing the total to 160 Compassion kids now.
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May 2011 PAMI Newsletter
If you haven’t already read it, you can see the latest edition of the PAMI newsletter by clicking here, or going to the”News” tab of the PAMI website http://www.pamimission.org/news. Newsletters from the past couple years can also be viewed there.
Will Graham, OCC shoeboxes, KAIROS, Ptr Chito’s health, PAMI support
Here’s a recent email prayer update that I sent out:
Ministry of Intern Student Jess Huab
Emmaus Bible Institute is a four-year Bible School, equipping local believers for full time ministry and evangelism. The course work at EBI consists of three years of class-room study and a one-year internship. The internship gives students the opportunity to have hands-on ministry experience while being supervised by a local pastor.
The following is a report from Jess Huab, one of PAMI’s intern students. Note that Jess is sponsored by the youth group of Trinity E. Free Church in Lakeville, MN. Other EBI students could use sponsorship at $30 per month to help cover some of their expenses.
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Calbayog Ministry
By Ptr. Isomel Espinar (pioneering in Calbayog since spring/summer of 2010)
Note that he still needs sponsoring. See also:
PAMI Strategy to Spread Further South and Testimonies of EBI Graduates.
First of all, we would like to thank God for the great privilege of serving Him in a place like Calbayog (Western Samar). What we did first, was entrusting to God this such big job in prayer. With Ptr Randy Rivera in his motorcylce, we encircled the city praying the people.
Next, we surveyed the place, gathering data which we could use in planning and developing strategies.
We’re able to find house, a strategic one, now establishing relationship with neighbors. It’s good that we’re able to start at once feding for children. In Bgy Pablican, we started home Bible studies.
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