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Left: Calli and Gemma in kitchen. Right: Laundry, washer and dryer working even if there’s no door installed yet! So glad it’s all functioning now! |
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| I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our partners for remaining faithful in giving during this trying time. Both to us and to your local church and other ministries you normally sow into. My heart and prayers have gone out to all the pastors, churches, and ministries worldwide. During times like these, overheads are not going down, but rather up, because of all the outreach that is needed everywhere. Praise the Lord, our God is ever faithful. He is our source. Amen? I encourage all of you not only to continue your normal giving, but to even increase those gifts to your church and the ministries you support. The enemy would have us fear and hoard and hold back. The very opposite we need to do. For the Lord says to us, “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” Luke 6:38 Be watchful for those around you. Take every opportunity to reach out and help those in need. Be God’s hand for someone else, knowing He is very capable of sending you the help you need yourself! As we keep our hands open in giving they will be open for receiving also! Don’t let the enemy convince you to choke off the flow. Remember if God can get it through you, He will get it to you! Praise the Lord we are living in times ripe for the miraculous! – Calli |
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We forgot to take a before picture of the lot, but I looked back though some of the old shots. This shows the mess before we built the wall between it and the house. It shows the makeshift nursery we built along with all the construction mess that was left after the mission center was built. |
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Here’s an over view of the lot now. Still have the nursery to the right. |
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Marlon and Conrad helping to clear off the lot. |
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Quarantine
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| Our quarantine began here on March 16. It was to continue for a month, but they quickly extended it to May 1st. Now there is a lot of chatter around saying it will be extended again at least to June 1, maybe indefinitely. Please be praying it lifts as soon as possible. I just don’t understand how the average Filipino family is surviving this. Tony has been working with the two guys we have staying here to work. They have been cleaning out the extra lot next door, burning rubbish as we can and digging out all the landscaping plants we had set aside from the old yards. We had tried to save many of them under a makeshift nursery we made out of some netting. Some of the plants didn’t make it over the last 4 years, but we are surprised by what did survive. We even had planted some palm trees from seeds that are already nice little trees! Along with moving the plants around into the new yards, we are clearing off and leveling some of the lot so we can plant a vegetable garden, something we have wanted to do for a long time. It will be great for us and the staff too! Since construction has been banned during the lockdown we have been using this time to do all this cleaning and gardening that so needed to be done. Conrad, one of the guys that’s still here, knows a little bit of everything (including plumbing and electrical). He was able to hook up our washer and dryer. We had not got them moved into place yet and were carrying our laundry back and forth from Erick’s garage. Whew! Only in the last week before the lock down, we were able to get our gas hooked up to the stove top in the new kitchen. Thank you Lord! When we first moved into the mission center, Krystel and I were going over to cook in Erick’s kitchen several times a day!
This has been hard on Tony, he’s not used to running at 1k rpm, his normal is more like 6 to 7k rpm. Haha! The Lord is just slowing us down a little, letting us get some other things done and making time for us to enjoy time with family and time with Him! I know all of you are experiencing some of the same things. I pray for you all to have the Lord’s divine health and His provision during these crazy days we are living through. In His love and grip, Calli |
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A note from Tony: |
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| Hi to you all! I’ve found myself becoming so sensitive to everything I see. I miss so much our family and friends in the US, I guess I’m becoming a cry baby daily. I see things on the news that move me to tears about others that are suffering. I watch movies on TV Classics and go down memory lane, here come the tears. This isolation, even though we have so many people here at the center, seems to be compounding the long period it’s been since we’ve seen you all back in the US. I think of all my pastor friends in Hereford that I love, our fellow Kingdom Global Ministries pastors I love worldwide, and all the pastors everywhere we know and love, and all our precious friends across the US many lifelong friends in Amarillo and here it comes again. Even talking about it makes my eyes well up. We went through the fire and lost Felicity and all our worldly possessions and then 6 months later we returned to the US to get some much needed hugs and stayed for a month, then returned and started an almost 4 year process of tearing down the old burned out center and then rebuilding the new center. It took a while for us to get the insurance claim and then it took 6 more months to get the permit. When the construction started I had a contractor helping us. There were architectural plans, engineer, and all the other people to help build. I had to fire the contractor early on. So here I am, doing mobile seminars monthly and at the same time over seeing everything on the project at over 70 years old. It’s been more than taxing on me and Calli but at the same time it kept us busy after such a tragic event happened in our lives. Y’all, I know that all things work together for good of those that love the Lord and are called to His purpose, I just have not yet seen why Felicity was taken from us, yet I know God loves us and He loves her as well and I know she’s happy with the Lord. We can only see this world and our time is but for a moment here. That’s why I’m always telling y’all that we only have one life to live here and one opportunity to impact the people on this earth to receive the Lord Jesus into their hearts. I guess I can’t complain about being so sensitive, because it used to take more to pull a tear out of me. I wouldn’t take for the way I feel now and the passion that burns in my heart for the souls of lost men and women. I believe that all this has done something special in Calli’s and mine hearts. How much is that worth? All the gold in the world couldn’t buy it.
Calli said it all at the beginning of the newsletter this time when she said to keep your hands open so God can put something in them to give away, Amen? Keep giving to your church and ministries you support because their overhead continues on even with the virus lockdowns. God will bring us all through this! And things will be better than before, Amen? Love, Love, Love to you all, Tony |
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| “Win the Philippines! Win the World!” Let’s do it together! |
Tony, I just found your newsletter. Sounds like you have your hands full. I know God will keep your heart full. I do remember your loss, can’t even imagine the vacancy left in your hearts.
Things here are busy. We have found Zoom to be our new best friend. At least we can keep some form of community. Prophets need community to stay healthy.
Love to you and I pray Father’s richest blessings to you.
Bill