URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

I have talked with Joanne Bonilla, the president of the PUP for Jesus
Movement, and Jhoi Colitoy, facilitator of the UP Christian Community,
about hosting the NYMM Summit in February next year. They will be
meeting with the other leaders of their network on Tuesday and
Thursday this week.

Please pray that they will bring up our request in their meetings and
that their response will be positive. The target dates are February
18-20 but we are open to an earlier date. We can have summits in both
their campuses if both of them accept.

Both campuses are strategic to the movement: PUP for their historic
role as the first site of the NYMC as well as their reputation for
aggressive Christian student witness, and UP as the hub and "alaga" of
nationwide campus ministry organizations.

Counting on your prayers,
Joy

~~~ We are the NYMM Young People at your service ~~~

NYMM Manila core group meeting

NYMM Manila core group meeting
Gateway Food Court near Time Zone, Cubao, QC
October 17, 2007
7:27 - past 9 pm

Present: Joy C. Solina, Eman ortaleza, Ramona Simons, Rome Escabillas,
Lorah Grace Singson, Flor dela Cruz, Art de Guzman, Jazmin Nogales

Agenda: NYMM presentation to churches and ministry partners,
strategies to recruit more mobilizers

Opening prayer by Eman

Topics discussed:
1. Eman summarized the discussion of the previous meeting with Ptr Bob
Lopez and Ptr Bani Miguel about buying into the NYMM vision held at
the Presbyterian main office in Starmall, Shaw Blvd, Mandaluyong. One
of the insights shared in that meeting was the neediness of churches
compared to campus ministries in learning how to mobilize young people
for missions.

2. Joy presented a printout of the sample Powerpoint presentation for
NYMM which she plans to bring with her to Mindanao and show to
potential partners. Comments from the group were on the questions that
should be answered by the presentation, such as:
a. Why should I join NYMM?
b. What can I get out of NYMM that I can use for my church? or How can
NYMM help me and my church?
c. What resources can NYMM offer the church?,
d. How do we impact people? and
e. After getting trained, what do we (the church) do next?
Joy will revise the presentation to answer the questions then use it
in her Mindanao trip. The group also raised the question, should young
people be further divided into subgroups ages 13-19, 20-25, and 26-30
years old.

3. Strategies suggested that would help churches equip their youth for
missions were:
a. forming interest groups the way 180 Degrees does theirs in music
and arts that can become missions teams in a geographical area,
b. develop youth-friendly missions training resources such as
contextualizing the CSM books Worker to Witness and A Higher Purpose
for Your Overseas Job for younger people.
c. offer resources for regional training and organizing missions events.

Next meeting will be on November 17, 9 am. Venue to be announced later

Closing prayer by Rome

~~~ We are the NYMM Young People at your service ~~~

Testimony: Missions For Christ

Dear NYMC friends and bretheren,

Asalamalaikom Malaikom salam! Quef Halek!

Well "Missions for Christ" is not my song ACTUALLY its God's song, He wrote it in my heart a day after 9/11 attack then I shared what God has given me TO A MISSIONARY FRIEND and after some friends and christians use it in missions or sung it on camp's missions night. I was encorage by the life of a christian american friend, Matt Delane in whom he was the first person I sang the song to him as my encouragement to him as missionary in the Phil. (he actually wants to go to China, Phil is the training ground). He was blessed and said, "Hey Boe can we record this, this will encourage alot of believers who wants to follow Christ in Missions arond the world'... so we started with a scratch recording hehehe well the sound was technically fine...then I heard about NYMC about the songwriting contest. There I went in the conference with my Church Band who supported me, I wasnt expecting that song will win I just want that song to encourage others Christians who have the desire to spread the Word of God around and anywhere in the world. But God let me win the contest with a title and a lil money. I was so very happy! yehaaa!!! can I shout for joy?!! alright! hehehe

Later, I realize that God has a better and wonderful plan for me...as mentioned in one of the countries in that song...Saudi ARabia, Philippine or CHina,....He put me here in the Middle East. Asalamalaikom Malaikom Salam..Last month was rAMADAN and I'm begining to understand their culture as a join them in their fasting but I prayed not in the mosque but sa tunay natin na Panginoon Hesus. Stricto and buhay dito, but salamat sa Diyos dahil medyo maluwag ng ang Bagong hari compared noon. Sa mga 'M' ay mahirap na share ng salita ng Diyos dahil maraming sila Batas na ginawa pa noon ng kanilang ninono its not just a religion, its their CULTURE. Marami ako nadiscover at patuloy parin sa Mission na binigay ng Panginoon...gaya ng Kinanta ko na 'MISSION 4 CHRIST' now I reliaze that I was not just singing that song but I was "LIVING" that song with my own LIFE for Jesus.

COntinue to pray for me and support Missionaries, for Matt Dillane in CHina and his wife, and for other people esp in CHina, Khazakstan, Indonesia, AFrica and other lands, reaching to those who are lost..THIS IS OUR COMMON GOAL!


You have been chosen to carry the LIGHT (Jesus), GO GO GO! kun nasa puso mo yun bakit mo tangihan ang ating Panginoon. Sya lang naman ang tunay na dahilan kun bakit nabubuhay tau...panalangin at pagisipan ang pag pasuk sa Missions dahil hindi basta basta ito ito ay BUHAY mo sa Panginoon kahit Pugot ang Ulo o Kamatayan at Paghihirap ang haharapin ay sulong parin dahil si Cristo lang ang kahulogan ng lahat ng ito.

ANg dahilan kun bakit ang mga FILIPINO ay halos nasa kahit saang sulok ng Mundo ay katulad ng buhangin na sobrang dami kung bilangin mo, ay dahil karamihan sa atin ay CHRISTIANO at gusto ng DIyos na maikalat ang salita nya hangang lahat ay makarinig at sa kanyang pagbabalik gusto nya tau lahat ng mga anak nya ay magsasama-sama.

Pagpalain kau lahat, God bless you all and continue to bless GOD, Mabuhay and mga Missionero at ang NYMC!


Masalama,



**Boey
Al-Khobar, KSA

** Boey was a student leader in InterVarsity when he was in college. He joined NYMC'2k2 in Dumaguete and his composition was the theme song of the said event in 2002.

Land of Possibilities

Dear Egroupmates and friends:

I returned from Mindanao the night of the barangay elections last Oct
29. I considered my trip both too short and just right. Too short
because the time spent in travel kept me from visiting more people,
and just right because my pocket couldn't have sustained me for
another day! But the Lord provided gracious, generous hosts and
companions who made the whole time enjoyable and enriching.

My time at the bcer (biennial consultation on ethnic religions) was
well-spent. I met the missionaries (including the mbbs) I wanted to
see and savored precious minutes chatting with each one. I was even
able to meet the widow of one of the martyrs featured in the book,
"God's Foot Soldiers" and gave her a copy of it. [For those of you who
do not know what "God's Foot Soldiers" is all about, please visit
www.csm-publishing.org and go to the video section] I asked one field
worker who is now in a "shadowing" role if cpm is already happening in
the upg and he nodded. I have also listened to presentations on how to
share the gospel to ms and what strategies they use to keep their
ministry going. Some organizations use business as mission locally.
Verrrryy interesting for mobilizers like me.

God blessed me with a much willing traveling companion after bcer, my
fellow delegate Ruby Pabalate from PMA. She traveled with me to
General Santos and back to Davao City to meet and talk to people set
up for me by another mobilizer named Dory Magabulo. I had the pleasure
of speaking to the young professionals fellowship of General Santos
Alliance Church, the Metro Davao Alliance Young People's prayer
fellowship activity in Calinan, Davao City, an MSU-Gensan university
professor who disciples her students to the mission field, the
Southern Mindanao student leaders of IVCF in their LCDC, the pastor of
Mangub Alliance Church who knows the elders of the city and the
national youth director of CAMACOP. (Guess what denomination dominates
the cities we traveled in.)

I will never forget the two young pastors who approached me after I
led the prayer time for the 13 upgs in the country at the young
people's prayer fellowship. The first to approach me was the church's
associate pastor. He introduced himself to me then told me how much he
identified with the prayer item on field workers because he used to be
one. But the work was so hard that he had to settle for a
re-assignment to the church where he is presently serving. But after
the prayer time, he said that he wants to go back! Then he introduced
me to the senior pastor who didn't look that much older than him and
teased him about going back to their former assignment. The senior
pastor also admitted that he used to minister among the ms. During
that brief moment of koinonia (because we had to rush off to travel to
our host before nightfall), I thanked them for telling me their desire
and encouraged them to study less offensive ways in ministering to ms.
I hope that wasn't a judgmental remark. I had been told that
well-meaninged pastors in their denomination do not know the role of
contextualization in ministering cross-culturally. Some have paid the
high price with their lives. But the Lord of the harvest will keep
sending workers when His people keep praying...

Our hosts in both cities were both field workers and swinging singles
just like Ruby and me. Both were longer-time friends of Ruby than me,
so the bonding continued for Ruby and deepened for me. We got to see
where and how they live. It was quite humbling to be ministered to by
such special people. We got a glimpse of the many people who support
them and who would be interested in the NYMM. Even the elderly Ptr
Bert's questions over Sunday lunch educated me a lot in how a local
church pastor thinks about cross-cultural missions. They (the pastors)
won't remain a upg for very long when mobilizers like me take the time
to relate to them in a non-threatening way. He wanted me to stay until
Friday so that he could have me speak at the ministerial fellowship
meeting! Of course, I couldn't, but I'm taking note of that
opportunity.

If there's anything my Mindanao trip did to me, it is gaining a fresh
resolve to promote the movement among "men and women of peace" in the
Body of Christ. It made me dream again of how we can raise generations
(plural po) of cross-culturally missions-minded young people willing
to go to the ends of the earth for the Lord before He returns. Many
have already gone unrecorded. I suspect a lot from Mindanao. But many
more can still go. The paradigm is already shifting. But we must keep
doing our part -- pray, give and mobilize.

My devotion this morning from Henry and Richard Blackaby's
Experiencing God Day-by-Day was based on the feeding of the 5,000. The
message was amply titled "Don't Avoid the Impossible." What are the
NYMM's five loaves and two fishes? What is the Lord telling us to do
with them? When we obey His word, we will witness the miracle.

The journey continues,
(Ate) Joy

P.S. Please log on to our new blog put up by Vir,
http://www.nymm.blogspot.com, and post some comments of encouragement
and suggestions, too. If you feel led to help set up a website for
NYMM, let us know. A website is really more appropriate.

~~~ We are the NYMM Young People at your service ~~~

Testimony Time

Below is a testimony of a student who joined the 30 days prayer focus for the "M" people. Be blessed and encouraged! - Vir

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"The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word "Muslim" is a fierce-looking man with a gun in his hand. I had always associated violence with Muslims, particularly in Mindanao. The mere mention of Mindanao made me shudder. This maybe because of what I see on TV and the newspapers. I was also a product of the missionary work of the Burnhams, so Martin Burnham's abduction (by the Abu Sayyaf) and death (during rescue operations) left a great impact on me.

My perceptions started to change when I befriended some Muslims from Mindanao. I study in a school where most students came from that part of my country. I had always been taught as a Christian to love our enemies but I had never thought of seriously praying for them. Thus, I gladly welcomed the opportunity to pray for Muslims (when I attended the ramadan orientation). I decided to give up, at least, one meal a day during the season of ramadan. Some friends were skeptical when I told them what I planned to do and why I was going to do it. But others encouraged me. When my fast begun, I had to endure taunts such as "This food is soooo delicious!" from friends during mealtimes. By God's grace, I did not give in to the pressure. I usually eat bread or oats in the morning which sustained me the rest of the day. But as a full-time student who attended classes early in the morning, skipping lunch for 30 days was a real sacrifice.

Praying for Muslims strengthened my prayer life. I noticed that I still had strength to work for the rest of the day even if I did not eat in the morning and at noontime. The prayer guide not only helped me know what to pray for but also became an eye opener to me about Muslims. They are human just like the rest of us. They experience the same pains, struggles and problems as I do. The only difference is that I have Jesus and they don't.

I pray that the flame that God has fanned in me to pray for our Muslim friends does not diminish and that I will continue to pray for them even beyond the season of ramadan." - Jean

We encourage everyone to send us your reflections and experiences on any missions activity you had before. Thanks po! - Vir