God has a way of illuminating His messages. As I was explaining how we should be aware of the needs of others, one of our mother’s baby started throwing up. I saw others looking in her direction and when I looked, there she was trying to work with this baby while others watched. So I said that God is now showing us the example. Here this frustrated mother has to deal with this situation and no one got up to help her. After I said that, others got up to help.

So I asked the mom, “How did you feel dealing with that problem all by your self?” She said, “Bad Pastor.” Then I asked, “How did you feel when others started helping you?” She replied, “Relieved.”

Jesus was always the strong one but we see in these Scriptures His human side. He had so much on His mind and He just asked to be backed up by His disciples and it never came.

Here at PBC, we just lost a $300 per month supporter. He was the 2nd largest supporter we had. He was faithful for years. He lost His job.
I am not concerned for us as I know God will use someone else to support His work but I am concerned for Him. My soul is exceedingly sorrowful. Will you pray for him? I won’t give you his name but let’s just call him faithful. Pray that he not only gets a job but gets the one that will make him happy. Pray for the peace and joy of his family. Will you do that? Please, don’t fall asleep, he needs your prayers.

As you probably already know, Brother Lito is a man in our Church who lives with his granddaughters, Vanessa and MaryAnn.

We have done everything we can to help this man. The doctors say he can walk again if he has the operation replacing his knees. One of our members trained him how to make floor mats and he has been doing a great job and making a bit of money also. Please pray we can get the right agencies to pay for his operation. He is a faithful member at Church and faithful to take care of his grandchildren.

God Bless! Ptr Jack, Malou, Laura and Linda

As I sit here writing, we have just had a torrential down pour of rain. Here in the Philippines it shakes the trees and the wind blows so hard that you need to close the windows or drown. Ha!

It makes me think of God and His mighty power to shake the world and I am sure we are getting close to that time.

This month God did  that in our lives.

We had VBS and everyone said it was the best one ever. We had many children who have returned to the Church to worship with us. This year, we decided not to go for training or to buy a VBS kit. This was our 9th VBS and we have saved every kit for each of those years plus, our people are so well trained already so there was no need. That also reduced the money we needed and so we saved a bunch. It cost us only $200 for decorations, food and prizes and we quickly received that from two good supporters of this ministry.

We had face painting, Skits, Puppet shows and Jesus was introduced at each one. Children are learning about Jesus! Pray they will be saved.

My computer broke down. It was a wonderful computer and it lasted 6 years which is great in itself but it just ran out of steam. Through the grace of our supporters coming to our aid, I was able to get a new computer for myself. We had some money left over so I was able to restore the original computer so it is a great help for Sister Malou as she does much work on it. (She doesn't bother me anymore.

She had a tiny one which we gave to the kids. Now everyone is happy!

Two Baptisms coming up. Two of our young ladies want to be baptized so this Sunday we will be doing just that. We always have at least two people question the young ones so that we are convinced that they are aware of what they are doing and what Baptism means.

We also have Pastor Bob Sharpe coming to bring the word that day. Pastor Bob is also a writer and a radio personality and he has volunteered to help our Organization record a professional video so we can try to advertise for funding to build the Compound.

Laura and Linda will begin 10th and 6th grades respectively and God has seen fit to supply us with the money to pay for the school and ship the materials. Please pray that we don't have to fight with customs again this year. It is so hard to believe that in two more years, Laura will go to college and Linda was in a basket on the plane when we came here and in two years will graduate elementery level. Thank you Lord for increasing their knowledge and talents.

Our friends in Canada – One Church sent money so that we could give bags of food out to 20 needy recipients. The other Church sent a box of used clothes. What blessings to our people. Many thanks to all who think and pray for us as well as give to our needs.

Our building fund is growing, slowly but surely. We just got another p4,800 added.
We have many ways to give but for the building fund we are using two organizations. Go Fund ME
and, Give Send Go a Christian Organization:

The first one is for a small piece of land. The second one is for a compound. It is also a fleece to see which one God will give us first.

We Got rid of our song books. After 9 years we were able to buy a projector and so all our torn and falling apart song books are history. What a pleasure to be able to sing hands free!

We also have upgraded our websites. We have already upgraded Payatas Baptist Church.org so that it is cell phone compatible. We just finished doing the same to Payatas Mission Outreach.org and it should be up in a couple of days.

We thank God first for His love for us and for all of you who have us in your heart. We pray that you will be strong in the Lord and be blessed.

Love, Pastor Jack, Malou, Laura & Linda
 

The kids return to school in June. Please help support the Payatas Kids School Supplies by clicking the Link.