IF YOU LOVE KIDS, CHECK THESE OUT

Here are some of the kids that gathered the night that I preached the first outdoor meeting of our last trip. After the service, we had porridge for the kids and as you can see, they were quite happy with that.

I saw this little guy at another street revival we did. Watch the video and see if you can move like that! 

Umbrella Man sitting in my lap. He was pretending that his binoculars was a camera and he was 'taking pictures' like me.

 

Some more kids posing during the street revivals

These children live in a remote area outside of Cateel.

When was the last time you rode a water buffalo through town?

Or rode a motorcycle with 5 people on it?

Darlene loving on one of the babies from the medical camp.

Sue and Judy surrounded by kids and a Filipino soldier.

I may not speak their language yet, but high fives and hugs are universal languages, it seems.

In this last photo, I am using these children to illustrate an important lesson. What is that important lesson?

The lesson is very simple. None of these little children are married yet. None of these little children can drive yet. Why? Because they are little kids. Grown-ups get married and drive. The same is true with Christianity. We start out as babes in Christ and we are supposed to grow up to be like Christ.

1 Peter 2:2 (ESV)  Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 

Hebrews 5:12 (ESV)  For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13  for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14  But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. 

This is where you and I come in. Ever since my first trip to the Philippines under the leadership of Greg Cochran, I have felt a strong calling to work through our Nelson Baptist Association to train Filipino pastors and help develop strong biblical churches. Churches that will preach and teach the one true gospel to these kids and their families. 

There are many churches in the Philippines that are not preaching the one true gospel. In addition to those who are teaching the Muslim faith, you will find churches that are teaching a prosperity gospel or other false gospels. The next trip, which will be in the spring, will be my fifth trip since the beginning of 2011. We are partnering with Pastor Joe Fernandez and his family to cover as many different areas of the Philippines as we can. And we need your help.

Your part may or may not be to go with us but any of you can help us by making a donation of any size to our fund raising campaign for these mission trips. If you wish to use a debit card or credit card, you can visit http://www.gofundme.com/hmd2p8 which is a secure sight that has an "A" rating with the Better Business Bureau. If you are wanting to make a donation using a check, please make it out to Rolling Fork Baptist Church and send it to 615 Rolling Fork Church RD, Boston, KY 40107.

Please share this information with your friends. The more funds we raise, the more we can do for our Filipino friends.