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Philippine Report for Monday (4/17/06)
April 17, 2006
from Harry Osborne in Tuguegarao, Luzon, Philippines
Mike Lusby arrived safely to Manila
on Saturday evening. I had gotten back to Manila from
GenSan earlier that day and met him at the airport
about 11:30pm. We stayed the night in Manila and flew
Sunday to Tuguegarao on a flight scheduled for 9am.
Our plane was late leaving and did not arrive here
in Tuguegarao until about 11:30am. We went immediately
to drop our bags off at the hotel and return to Rody
and Tessie’s house for lunch. It was great to
see all of the Gumpad family again as they have become
like my own family. The food was as good as always!
After lunch, we all went different ways to various
congregations to preach. The result of all of the
preaching efforts by the various groups in and around
Tuguegarao was that 31 were baptized. Steve Wallace
had preached in the northern province of Kalinga for
the previous week where 52 were baptized. The follow-up
of the Filipino brethren to our work in Mindanao has
also brought a number of baptisms, though I am uncertain
as to the exact number. In all, it has been a very
profitable trip so far with well over 100 having been
obedient to the gospel to this point.
We started our part in the preacher training classes
today. Mike Lusby had a morning class surveying the
Minor Prophets. Steve Wallace had one morning OT survey
class and one afternoon NT survey class. I had a morning
class on the work of a preacher which is a textual
study of 1st Timothy, 2nd Timothy and Titus. My afternoon
classes were on “Church History” and “Issues
That Divided Brethren.” We had excellent interest
in all classes with the students showing very good
interest and participation.
As always, we had a number of visitors who sat in
on both morning and afternoon classes. Many of them
were former students in these training classes. It
was a very good day of classes and we are very encouraged
by the study habits of the students and visitors.
Our evening worship service just ended. One student
led the singing, another led the prayer and a third
preached the lesson for the hour. After a review of
their efforts, we spent a little time introducing
the students to the use of their center-column reference
Bibles and the maps. We will continue to work more
on the use of these tools as well as continuing to
drill on the use of the concordance and Bible dictionary.
Today’s temperature was 39 or 40 C, depending
on which radio station was right. Either way, it works
out to over 100 F with well over 90% humidity. In
other words, it is hot! The Filipinos are even talking
about how hot it is this summer. (April is their hottest
summer month here.) The air conditioning in the class
building dulls the heat, but does not make it cool.
When you leave the class, however, it is brutally
hot.
Must get this report off so we can head back to the
hotel and get some rest. Please keep the students,
us and this effort in your prayers as we remember
you in our prayers.
Brotherly, Harry O.
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