Eunice and I would like to express our heartfelt thanks
through this page to each and everyone of you who blessed us with love and
encouragement during our latest U.S. visit. It was a fresh confirmation that
God’s mission still gets done through cooperation of both willing senders and willing
goers. We’re grateful for those who are “sending” us with their prayers and finances,
and consider it a privilege to “go” on their behalf!
Upon our return to Philippines, our field ministry
continued, and I taught a block course at the Alliance Graduate School while it
was a summer break of the International Graduate School of Leadership. It was joyous to serve a group of zealous mission mobilizers by sharing the concept
and practice of biblical mission. I witnessed again that God is in the business
of calling His people for His mission on earth “from everywhere, to everywhere,
through everywhere” these days.
Afterwards, I participated in one of the Lausanne Movement consultations
where 100+ evangelical mission leaders were drawn from 19 countries at the four
corners of the globe. Each and every panel discussions on the diasporic world
mission was filled with enthusiastic interactions from the international
community of missiologists. My heart still recalls a magnitude of the Lord’s
prayer, which I uttered together with Christian leaders representing various
tribes, tongues and nations after celebrating the Lord’s Supper on the last day
of this global-scale meeting. How awesome and grand presence of God I felt
there! The heart of our God to see all the nations come to know His saving love
through the cross of Calvary saturated my heart all over again with strong
conviction that Jesus is indeed the way and life for this hurting world.
New school year began at IGSL in mid-June. Sixty eight vibrant
intakes from 13 nations, including the very first ones from Mongolia, joined the
IGSL student body. It is our prayer that they’ll be thoroughly equipped together
with their families for the next several years as they go through holistic
leadership training at IGSL.