Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Home Sweet Home

After a short delay, I'm finally all moved into my new apartment here in the Philippines! It's in a good location and comes complete with karaoke every night across the street :) My roommate will arrive later today, and we will begin ministry together in the coming days. Please be in prayer for both of us... for God to grow and strengthen our friendship, for guidance and boldness as we begin to meet people and minister in our city, and that we would be dependent on God's strength and power everyday.

I'll leave you with some pictures of my new home...


my apartment building... mine is the one on the far right

the view from the front door

the kitchen

the dining area

the living room

my room

my cool bamboo bed

my bathroom

Hope you enjoyed the grand tour!!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

It's Been a While...

So I realize that I've fallen behind on updating the blog, and I apologize. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind... good, busy, and difficult at times. I spent two weeks in the city of Legaspi, staying with a local pastor and his wife. My main project while I was there was to make an audio recording of the Bible stories used in the lessons in Tagalog. Shane (the pastor I stayed with) read the stories and I did the editing. I really enjoyed this project and we were able to finish recording all of the stories... and I am almost finished with the editing.

On July 2nd, I made the trip back from Legaspi to Iriga. That evening, a missionary couple arrived that is moving to the area. So I stayed with them for a week and a half, helping them move into their house and get settled into their new town.

The Hagens returned from their trip on Saturday, and yesterday we went apartment-hunting for me. We were able to find a great apartment in a really good location. We will sign the contract tomorrow and go shopping for all the furnishings. Hopefully I'll be moving in within the week.

I'll put up pictures of the apartment as soon as I get settled, but for now here are some pics from the last few weeks....



Shane and Guitar (the pastor and his wife that I stayed with in Legaspi)

Guitar leading worship at the church

me with Guitar, Shane, Shane's mom, and Micky (the missionary that I helped move in)