Let’s fill that Jeepney…
How many people can you fit in a Jeep anyway? The Troups experienced being in a Jeep loaded with 32 people, but our record is 51.
As they all begin to drift off to sleep, sort of looks like a mini war zone…
Just for you Alisha
I did not yet send you any photos of Christian Garcia, but here is a great family shot for you.
Major Pollution Issues – Breath Carefully
The buildings in the distance in this photo would be perhaps 1.5 km’s away from where I am standing. There is very little cloud today, this is all pollution.
Call to Prayer
Hi there to all. We are currently in Australia, my wife has been here for the past 2 months.
We are here because Christine is scheduled for a major operation on Jan’ the 14th. If the operation goes ahead, it would mean that Chris would have a long recovery time of perhaps up to 3 months.
For anyone who knows Chris personally, or for anyone who really does pray – I would ask you to pray for her.
We are like most in the christian world, we believe in miracles. We have a great God who freely gives to His children, they only need to Seek, Ask and Knock. Please take this prayer request seriously, please pray consistantly; thanking God for the work of the Cross – “it is finished”, Jesus really did pay the price for our infirmities.
Amen – Mark
Here’s another one of those “Sleep Anywhere Pics”
Girlfriend, sound asleep in her dads Pedi Cab, just out like a light.
Church Number 5…go Team…
As most of you know we were able to do some flood relief work via funding we recieved from AOGWR and the ACC, which was a huge blessing to those in the area of Fairview.
It has now been a number of weeks since the relief work started, and Ps Annie and James had been back into the area a couple of time to conduct bible studies that were requested by people in the community. Those bible studies are quickly developing into a church. Ps Annie, Rodelo and Precy went there this week to officially “begin church”. They meet in a local house, we have given them bibles and this week there were 4 salvations and a couple of baptisms in the Holy Spirit.
This will technically be Ps Annie’s 2nd Church, not bad with no Bible College and a very limited education…wonder what the rest of us are doing over Christmas, Ps Annie is at work “Saving the world”…
This will be the 3rd church that the Team has started by themselves, with pretty well no input from me or my wife…just them and Jesus.
Big Day Out…Swimming
Ok, the Troups are leaving soon, lets takes them on a day trip to this really great swimming places in the province. Load up a couple of jeeps, grab all the kids, gets the food ready and lets go.
Out to Bulacan where there is a river and a natural spring, nice cold, clean water and a relatively unpolluted environment (rare).
A few dramas on the way home thought, with jeeps breaking down and having to queeze 37 people into one jeep, Troups thought that was alot, but our record is 51…
Stabbing…
We often get stabbing victims, usually after a drunken fight. But this is prob’ one of the worse ones that I have seen.
Stabbed twice, front and back, went to hospital, got stitched up and we now clean the wound daily and put new bandages on. Often hospitals here will use thin gauze padding to put over wounds, which they had done in this case, problem with that, is as the wound heals the scab grows through and around the gauze, so when you remove the gauze you rip open the scab every time…this was the case this time, except, this time the stitches were in the gauze. As we removed the gauze the stitches began to fall out after only being in there 2 days. In this case, the victim was not drunk, he was just set upon by a group of others.
We politely call countries like this “Developing Nations”, but far out, when you see some of the things that Dr’s in particular do, you have to wonder…there is no follow up care, no return trip to get bandages changed or wounds dressed. This wound has become infected and he should be ok, because we are looking after him, but for so many others, this would potentially be fatal.
Pancakes with the Troups
The Troups have left now, back in the best country n the world, Australia. Where they are enjoying clean air and quiet living, plus all the yummy food that they are accustomed too. Before they left we had a pancakes and fireworks night, here are a few shots…
