Thanks to the faithful ministry of lay, pastoral and conference leaders in the Philippines, as well as guest evangelists, Share Him, The Quiet Hour, ASI and generous donors, there are now about 5,500 new brothers and sisters in the Philippines as a result of five cluster meetings, including our meetings.
Our cluster focused on San Pablo City and surrounding areas, and has resulted in about 1,000 new believers, including 396 who were baptized in a San Pablo City swimming pool on Sabbath afternoon, March 29. The others were baptized during our meetings in March and at several sites in the region on the final Sabbath. Several pastors of other denominations embraced the Adventist message and were baptized. Two new churches were planted in the San Pablo area as well as others which were planted in the other cluster sites.
Other clusters included Don Schneider’s team in Manila, Albert Gulfan’s cluster in Cagayan de Oro on Mindanao, and other clusters on Cebu and other Philippines locations.
ASI provided lay training and DVD materials to prepare people for baptism and to provide strong discipling of the new members. The Quiet Hour funded the evangelistic costs at many of the sites. Share Him provided evangelistic graphics and organizational and financial support. Guest speakers from the North Pacific Union Conference and other parts of the North American Division preached evangelistic meetings and provided health and family talks, music and children’s ministry. And the lay members, pastoral and conference leaders were faithful in looking for those who were most open to the Adventist message, befriending them and sharing Jesus and the Bible truthes with them. They will also be the ones to help them learn how to walk with Jesus each day and share their new found faith with their family and friends.
The San Pablo meetings were recorded by a local cable company and rebroadcast to their 4,000 subscribers.
Posted in 2008 Philippines For Christ, Global Missions
