Let's begin praying

We're officially back! There a quite a few prayer requests that we have received from the many many people that we have met in the Philippines. We hope that all of you are able to take some time off from your busy schedule, to keep these families, these people in prayer. Since there are tons! I'll not bombard you with the prayer requests all at once. So here are the first two prayer requests of the week.

The family of Copper and Marilyn, Marco and CJ

In this picture --> Marilyn carrying her youngest son CJ

• Copper as the head of the house has yet to accept Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Let us pray that he'll one day, be touched, and finally accept Christ as his personal Lord and Savior.
  
• Also, for the health of CJ and Marco as they are still very young and easily fall ill.
  

The Salazar Family

Antonio and Victoria, Annabel, Analisa, and Anjel

In this picture --> Anjel and the photos hanging above are pictures of her sisters and her.

A little about this family...Anjel (14 years old) is the youngest in the family, and is also the only Christian in the family. Her parents, Antonio and Victoria, are street sweepers.

• Let us pray for protection upon the parents, as sweeping the streets is quite a dangerous job.


• All 3 of the children (Annabel, Analisa, and Anjel) to be able to finish their studies.


• God's provision on their family.


• That Anjel will be a blessing to her peers and family.


• Last but not the least, that her family will one day accept Christ into their lives.
  

Tune in next week for more prayer requests and updates!!

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him"

1 John 5:14-15

signing off, Pinx

It's not over yet!

Hi all!

Wondering what happened to our blog? Wondering if we'll ever continue to update it and keep it alive?

Well, your questions will be answered. A-Team will continue to persevere on and so will this blog! It will be updated from time to time, but at the moment we are facing a few technical difficulties.

Don't worry! Just come back in a few more days, and things will be back to normal again!! So do come back for more! =D

signing off, Pinx

The last and final day

Today is the last day for all of us A-team people here in Philippines. So sorry there would not be any pictures uploaded today as it takes time and we will be back tomorrow. So i'll jus share little on we done today and yesterday.

Yesterday we spent the day in the one of the high school's in Manila, just behind the Smoky Mountains, performing dramas and mimes for the students in their hall. It was also a time where we shared the gospel with them.

Today, we spent the time with university students at Univsersity Baptist Church (UBC). It was a place where university students would hang out during their breaks in between classes. After having a short lil ice breaker, mime, drama and singing, we spread out to sit among to students, talking to them, getting to know them, sharing our testimonies with them and most importantly spending some time praying for them.

I guess that's about it. =)

signing off, pinx

Raindrops are falling on my head

Maganda umaga po! (good morning)

just a little update of what we did yesterday
We certainly experienced God's shower of blessings literally as we walked and ministered in the rain (the typhoon alarm was set at second stage already)

It rained non-stop throughout the day but through the rain we could see the reality the street kids and Delpan children faced.

We moved over to the River of God church where we packed food for the street kids and Delpan neighbourhood.

Woke up the next morning at about 5 to prepare

and off we go...

just a little glimpse of what Yong's and James' team did

Right in the heart of Delpan

where it still continued to rain


May decided to give skunky II away to one of the family in Delpan who had TWINS!

A picture may speak a thousand words but none of these can explain or describe what we all experienced and witnessed that day

Which we hope we are able to share with all of you when we get back home!

Signing off, Xinn.

Back at Fishport Alliance Church

We were still in TayTay for the last two days and took the opportunity to teach some of the members rope and paper stories that we learnt the past few months. We also managed to visit the homes around the area and then enjoy some Bible story time with the kids.

Our wonderful start of the day- Chocolate porridge

the view from Fishport Alliance Church

Today we helped them cleaned up their area, bless them with some basic food to the the church members and other families there, and lastly celebrated with the children there for the last time

As you can see we don't have much pictures for the day

you know why?

BECAUSE we're all busy working!!!

haha yeah for the people and for the Lord!

we're half way through already
and we gotta go now to pack for we're moving to Tondo for the night

so that we can wake up at 4 tomoro for street kids feeding and ministry

We need all the prayer power from you!!

Thank you all for keeping us in your prayers :)

till next time then

Signing off, Xinn.

Freshly Brewed from Manila

Kumusta ka?

That's how are you in tagalog.
We seven are having a blast for God
It has been tiring back-to-back activities so far
But the Lord is faithful and He has provided each and everyone of us the strength to pull through the day :)
So just to keep you people at home posted.

Day 1
Before we leave

After we Land: enjoying ouyr Jollibee(Philippines version Mcdonald's)

Orientation!!

Day 2 - At Fishport Alliance Church

This is Rex - one of our host/interpreter/chef

There's our other host/interpreter (on the far left) - Lita

There are much more pictures of what we did

But that you would have to wait in suspense till we get back then...haha!

Prayer requests:
1) There are goin to be a lot of activities and ministries that we're going to plan and carry out. so pray for strength (physical and spiritual). We truly need wisdom from God too that we will be ready and have the freshness of mind to plan all sorts. Pray for flexibility and spontaneity when we are called to do things we aren't ready for. Expect the unexpected as many of the leaders here are telling us. May God guide each detail to our plans that it may bless others and touch their lives. As we would want them to know that we are not here to just "do charity" but to share the Love of God too!

2) We like to thank the Lord for providing wonderful and hospitable host that has taken good care of us (So parents don't worry, we're in GOOD hands). Pray for the unity among the A-Team members as we put our Head and Hearts together that hopefully and prayerfully, we can establish great things for Him and the people here. Pray that we will work well with the other pastors and leaders from different churches and ministries throughout our stay here. We would like to be a huge help to all of them.

3) The weather here is uncertain and it's the rainy season. Pray that God's hand will guide the wind and that it would not cause any typhoon or massive rain this season. For one that it would not disrupt any of our activities and secondly that it would not trouble the people here who stay on low-land and are easily affected by massive floods.

4) Our upcoming events the next few days. We will still be ministering in Fishport Alliance Church (with adults and children), Streetkids ministry, and Sikatt ministry among urban school poor students. Continue to keep us in prayer that all things will go well in God's will.

1 Corinthians 9:22-23
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

Signing off, Xinn.

Departure and Arrival

Departure - 27/09/2008; 0720am on flight AK32. We will arrive in Philippines at 1115am

Arrival - 04/10/2008; 1145am on flight AK33. We will arrive in Malaysia at 0340pm