Long Time No Blog

Wow, ever since the Concert of Prayer, I'm sorry to say I've been neglecting my blog! Sorry to all of you who check it faithfully. I've not dropped off the face of the earth---I've just been swallowed up by the busy Christmas season! Here are some pics from the prayer event:

Combined worship team representing a ethnic heritage from Europe, Korea, The Philippines, Vietnam & Myanmar

Just one of the many multiethnic & multigenerational prayer groups

My brother, Mark, flew over from New York to visit for a few days. That was really nice. He changed his major from Business to Education, so it will probably take him an extra year to graduate from King's College in Manhattan. We'll try to fly back to the States to see him do that in 2006. He left California on the 23rd to arrive in Manila at 6AM on Christmas morning! It's pretty cool that he got to spend another Christmas with the family.

Jojo & Tito Mark

Christine's parents and sister came down to visit us here. And sicne we ran the show at our place, we made sure the celebration of our Lord's birth was really overt and devoid of most of the more commerialized aspects of the holiday. They attended a Christmas Eve service at our pastor's house, where they got to hear my evangelistic presentation. Christine also got to share personaly with her sister that afternoon. Pray for the seeds that have been planted among the Buddhist and Islamic people who also attended that night.

We're getting close to 70% of our support now. Pray we could be at 80% by the end of January and 90% by March. It is possible! Let's continue to seek the Lord's will for our departure date next year---The year we believe God will complete our support team and send us to the Philippines! I like to call it, "2005: The Year of the Mission!"