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Taking Mindoro Island for Jesus!
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| Roxas, in the province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines has a population of 53,201 people. Oriental & Oxidental Mindoro have a population of over 1,331,000 total for the island. We have two more seminars coming up in Mindoro in June. It’s our desire to light the fires of evangelism on this Island, because like most of the Islands they have been neglected for a long time. We discovered that they are purposely not teaching English in their schools which is an effort to land lock the young people to the Island because of the lack of language skills. God has a calling on all the Philippines to be the launching pad for missions to all the world so hopefully through the spreading of the Gospel they will have a change of heart after we take this Island for Jesus. Halleluiah!
Folks, I hope you are getting a picture of what we are trying to do here. We will do another 10 to 15 seminars on Mindoro to make sure that we saturate the Island with an army of soul winners. That will easily equip 200 to 300 churches and create a soul winning army of two to three thousand. To put it into perspective, this seminar was our primer. We only had 5 pastors in this graduating class. The next seminar will be big, probably 40 to 50 pastors and so on. The more pastors, the more trainers we will create, the larger the army of soul winners. We will take this Island! You can help get this done by sending monthly support. You can be a part of taking these Islands for Jesus. You will have war stories when you get to Heaven by following our progress and supporting it. Any monthly gift will help so don’t think someone else is doing it. We need your help, just like those pastors need our help. If we don’t do it, who will? Please join us in winning the Philippines to the Lord! Soon, we will bring Stealth Evangelism to the US and the rest of the world! Help us make it happen! Love you all so much, Pastor Tony & Calli Poole |
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Details on Mindoro Seminar |
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Pastora Remy Modeno |
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| The team travelled 3 hours by car to take a ferry boat ride for more than 3 hours, to bring us to Calapan Mindoro which is 128 km or 3 more hours to Roxas, where the training was held. (Total of 9 hours travel!) 31 persons registered for the class including 8 pastors headed by the host pastor, Michael Morante. It is amazing how God connects us to His remnants as the Church team is called ‘ACCELLERATE’, which they really did, accelerating in soul winning and church growth.
Pastor Michael had a childhood friend whom he had been trying to win to the Lord since they were kids. During the second day of training his friend called and he immediately notified his friend that he will come to visit them that night. On his visit, he witnessed to him using the technique we taught him, his friend and his family of 5 children were won to the Lord without any difficulty. The family and Pastor Michael were all in tears as they realized the father/his childhood friend has given his kids the best gift ever – the gift of salvation!!! Glory to God!! |
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Real Lack of Evangelism |
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| There has been a real lack of evangelism on Mindoro Island, so churches are small with few members, which are a majority of youth. We had a number of youth in this seminar. God is bringing a change on that Island. Here are some of their testimonies of the Seminar.
Felicity is a pastor’s daughter and at 11 years old promises to be a powerful soul winner. At the onset, she felt stammering and shy but from the third practicum she could not stop how aggressive and bold she could be in sharing the Gospel. Her church mate motivated her that she can do it, and true enough, she had a break through from 2 presentations and 4 presentations in the first and second practicums, she did total of 32 presentations in the third and fourth practicums. Amazing results for an amazing girl!! Thanks be to God!! Justine, 15 years old did the highest number of presentations – total of 56, while another youth Reymark won 76 souls, the highest number of souls won during this class. Justine became so addicted to it that he went to sleep early and woke up at 4am to start his practicum. And he averred he cannot stop himself sharing the Gospel. He felt the need to approach every soul that could be walking towards hell so they could be led to the Lord. Sis Fancy had a great challenge winning her family members, including her problem son who is fond of drinking. When she heard the story of the Forgotten Person, it struck a chord in her and she declared it is now the appointed time for her family to be born again. After the session, she was in a hurry to speak to her son the verses of 357 Magnum, and son being sober, accepted the Lord without hesitation and told her he loves her. They were both crying and hugged each other which they have not done for a long time. Martin is very happy that he does not need a year or so for a person to be a friend and win their souls to the Lord. With this tool, he is positive that as he wins a friend, he will definitely win their hearts to the Lord also!!! What a bonus! Hallelujah! The tiredness of travelling for 9 hours by car and boat, all this fatigue, was wiped away hearing their testimonies. We all went home fulfilled and thankful to the Lord for the privilege of creating impact to the lives not only of our fellow workers in the vineyard, but of the unbelievers who later on received the Lord in their hearts. Thank You Lord, for making us instruments of bringing miracle to the new believers, and bearers of hope and good news, the only GOOD NEWS this world has. Each class reaffirms our commitment to further advance His kingdom and occupy till He comes. We are so blessed to be part of this undertaking, and we all believe God is releasing a bountiful reward for everyone who is involved in The Great Commission. We are traveling on Sunday to Sarangani Province, where 2 classes will be held. With expectant hearts, we know we will again bring home stories of victory as there is victory in the name of Jesus! Thanks be to God, Remy Mordeno |
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Special request for our special brother! |
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| Some of you will recognize our precious brother Pastor Al Regis who has served as a volunteer with us for about 5 years. He loves this ministry and is quite fruitful in serving this ministry also. He helps Pastora Remy set up seminars and facilitates some of the scheduling of these seminars himself. He also goes with us to other islands and helps as a monitor and practicum coordinator. I love Al, and you can tell by that sweet smile of his, you would love him if you knew him. Quite a guy!
AL had a stroke about 2 years ago and lost his voice for a short time. He later got it back but he still has to be careful and not over stress himself. His doctor wants him to do a MRI because he has been experiencing excruciating pains in his head from time to time. Al doesn’t have a real income except we give him a love gift when he works around the office and when he goes on trips with us. So, is income is looooow! The MRI cost money that he doesn’t have. He is one of God’s priceless soldiers and needs some help! I just want you to pray about helping him with the MRI expense which would be about $300. Anything else you want to do, he’s worth it! He’s a little guy, but the demons of hell run from him! HaHa! We need more like him! |
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