Posted in Reflections on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Sunday, May 11th
We leave for home tomorrow. We spent our last evening with our good friends Robert and Pot Albarico. Listening to their [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Friday, May 9th
We have spent the last two days in Quezon province just outside Lucena (About 4 hours drive from Manila) with our good friend Sonia Berena and her husband Arnel. They have created a beautiful retreat centre and home for victims of abuse, and planted a church in the process! Surrounded [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, May 8th
I spent the morning with my good friend Raineer Chu. As always I marvelled at his discernment and creativity as he shared about the challenges they face in reaching out to the urban poor and their new initiatives to overcome the barriers. The progress they have made in dealing with land rights, [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, May 7th
We spent the morning at the worship gathering of Mission Ministries Philippines (MMP). They asked us to speak about our work and what God has been teaching us. We chose to focus on all of the ways that God used our experience in the Philippines to lay a foundation for the [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, May 4th
The International Leadership Forum keeps us going pretty much non-stop. It is great to connect with people from around the world—to hear stories and compare notes with others over meals. It is fun to watch people experience Metro-Manila and Philippine realities. They find it overwhelming and yet there is so [...]
Posted in Reflections on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, May 1st
Today we went back to visit Sitio Lambak, the urban poor community that we lived in for two years from 1991-93. It will take time for me to unpack all I saw and felt there. It was fun to watch looks of suspicion turn to smiles and laughter as people remembered [...]
