“We are forever grateful for your quarterly support to PGA and its missionaries. Balugo is appreciative of their partnership with Gashland. This is another suburb where PGA missionaries pioneered a home church last year.ĭr. In December 2021, Bible study for the youth group resumed in Tugbok. With the rising cases of the Omicron variant, there’s still one worship service every Sunday in Maa, Davao for all the three churches established in the area within the past six years. In Davao, missionaries have continued with home Bible-study meetings and discipleship-training programs in various tribal communities. They were finally able to give school supplies to the children, whose schools have changed to online and modular classes since the start of the pandemic. PGA teams were able to go on medical missions as the need arose. Linda comments that “we are thankful that our missionaries can be the hands and feet of Jesus to share, encourage and give hope during these challenging times.” She says things have eased in the last year. In Cebu, PGA reaches out to the children each month by giving bookmarks with memory verses, helping the children in Maghaway stay on track in learning God’s Word. Pray also that the whole family will be saved.” She accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior, Healer, and One True Living God! Please pray as Pastor Wingwing and Darlyn disciple her as she grows in her faith in Jesus. As the pastor led her in prayer, she surrendered her old beliefs and practices to the Lord. After an online consultation with me, Pastor Wingwing gave the necessary medicines to the lady. ![]() ![]() The lady is known in the village as a spiritist, practicing animism, a common practice in the tribal communities. On July 25, 2021, an old lady with a toothache and knee joint pains came to see Pastor Wingwing. ![]() Balugo says, “Aside from financial constraints, people won’t go to a clinic or hospital for fear of catching the virus, an ironic mentality that has crept into the minds of most Filipino people. PGA volunteer teams do house-to-house visitations to provide health care, bringing vitamins and necessary medicines to ailing patients. But the need for medicines for sick people, especially in the villages, doesn’t stop, not even the Word of God. Their health department strongly mandated restrictions on travel and gatherings of more than 30-50 people, and imposed health protocols to mitigate the spread of the disease. The Philippines is one of the countries in Southeast Asia with high cases of COVID-19 infection. “The pandemic brought about by the COVID-19 virus has greatly affected ministry activities for over a year in Cebu and Davao.” Balugo’s work as the International Director for the Philippine Gospel Association, and she says they thank God for what He is doing in many people’s lives through their ministry. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’” (Matthew 25: 35-36, ESV)
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