Hello to all of our family, friends and faithful supporters. We are doing well and have been staying busy with ministry and family.

We are still taking care of two young boys and now we are also taking care of a teenage girl. All of these children are from single parent homes who remaining parent has gone to Manila to work.

While the Philippines is still recovering from super Typhoon Yolanda we are still working with “Grace Community Empowerment” and “Baybay Assembly of God” with the rebuilding 100 houses that were totally destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda.

In March David attended and spoke at a men’s fellowship in Mahaplag Leyte. This two day fellowship was an amazing time for the men of the church to bond and be spiritually feed.

In April we spent three days in Baybay Leyte as part of the General Fellowship of the 12 churches of the “Fedelis Legis Assemblies of God”. This was an amazing Spirit filled time. This time was truly a blessing to us and all that attended which was approximately 300 persons. There was a great calling among the youth in attendance; several youth committed to attending bible school.

We have been celebrating various church anniversaries which points to the faithfulness of God! God is good and His timing is perfect!

We are looking forward to the month of May. There will be two church plants; ours will be in Panas, a Barangay of Maasin City and another will be in Conception, a Barangay of Hilongos. Panas is a small Barangay located in a remote coastal area, while Conception is a larger Barangay of about 5000 thousand people located at the base of a mountain range among the rice fields. Please pray for these new churches.

We continue to help people who are in need of medical care. We have been helping several young children who have been hit by motor vehicles.  The patients usually have to go to one or more cities in order to complete all required medical tests and or CT scans.

We were also trying to financially help a thirteen year old girl who the doctors thought had Dengue fever. She had several blood transfusions but was not getting better. The doctors then discovered that she really had Leukemia and sent her to Cebu for treatment. It is sad to say that dear Eunice passed away before she could get the help she needed. Please keep her family in your prayers.

We launched our “Livelihood” Ministry. This ministries purpose is to help people become self-supporting by providing them with the needed tools, education and or materials/supplies to earn a living. We started off by helping a mother who had already completed her education to become a teacher. We helped her completed the necessary and quite enormous amount of paperwork needed to apply for a teaching position. She had to travel throughout the island of Leyte in order to complete all of the paperwork. We also provided a four month old female pig to a family to be raised as a mother pig; we also supplied one 50 kilo sack of feed. We have several other young female pigs that we will donate sometime next month. We also bought one small fishing boat and helped repair other boats that were destroyed or damaged by tropical storm Bashen. We look forward to helping many more people!

We thank all of you for your prayers and support. Please continue to pray for us and for the people of the Philippines!

Love David & Vicenta