End Of The Year Message‏

NYMC. It's what happens despite the absence of one. Some of our key leaders have been led to join the mission force. Some of you may have already known that Eman Ortaleza of the Manila core team is now working in Qatar and experiencing the life of a tentmaker. I personally pray for him everyday along with the other goers among upgs in my prayer list. Please include him in your prayers. He will be spending Christmas there by working just like any ordinary day in the Middle East.

Candy Galagnara, the sole delegate from Mindanao to the NYMC in Bacolod, will be leaving for the UK on January 3 for further studies AND work as a nurse. She went thru more missions courses and short-term missions trips than I can imagine. Like Eman, she sees herself as a tentmaker. No wonder the Lord did not make it possible for her to join K Art to the SMMR! She would not have been able to carry out her mobilizer duties anyway. Many obstacles beset her as she prepares to leave in January but she has learned to "embrace" (her own words) them as part of God's missionary training for her. Please pray for her as well.

Ptr Allan Obedoza, formerly with Asian Center for Missons when he served on the Manila core team, is now preparing for career missions in Thailand. He is presently setting up the missions department of his church while raising the needed support for bringing his whole family (wife and 4 children) with him to the mission field. He will be facilitating the Kairos course for the IVCF missions team a few weeks from now. Let us also pray for God's provision, preparation and timing for their actual departure.

There may be more NYMCers among you who are in "obedience" mode. I just don't know it. You can always make your prayer needs known through this egroup. It has been FOUR years already since this egroup for the Zambales NYMC batch was formed. Hopefully, each of us has grown a little more mature and wiser in following the Lord's call to bless the nations. Many have yet to hear as there are many who suffer for their faith in Christ in places hostile to the gospel.

This Christmas season, let us renew our commitment to be "faithful, joyful and triumphant" to bring every human heart to "adore Him, Christ the Lord"!

Blessed CHRISTmas & an Exciting New Year to all,
Joy (to the world)
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Waiting on the Lord

It seems like ages since anything has been posted here. Except for Kuya Art's report of the SMMR (which he posted on the nymm egroup), nothing seems to be happening. But I believe something soon will.

As ramadan comes to a close next week, my own fast also ends. I've done this before but not this long and this intense. I have some pretty heavy personal and ministry concerns that I can't pray about in the usual way. At the top of my list are some unsaved loved ones.

So far, God has been showing me my own spiritual hardheartedness. Even if I do most of the talking, I am doing more listening, too.

Hirap palang mag-fast. Hindi ka lang nagdidisiplina sa sarili na huwag kumain, pati yung puso mo binubulatlat! (Sorry, I didn't know how to express myself in English] But I really believe it's the right time for me to do this. Before I expect God to move in a mighty way, He waits for me to make time for Him.

For an update, Eman will soon work in Qatar as a tentmaker. The other Filipino delegate to SMMR is studying at ATS and wants to meet with the NYMM core team sometime when her schedule permits. I also met another young missions mobilizer who coordinates short-term mission trips for youth.

God is truly making things fall into place. May He bring the core team together soon.

Blesssed to be a Blessing

Today I officially have a new cellphone, exactly one week after I lost one. Just as I had barely finished emailing and telling just about everyone about my loss, God sent someone to give me its replacement. The "angel" asked me three times why I hadn't bought a new cellphone yet. I didn't have a ready answer but I tried to come up with one. Then I heard the surprise of my cellphone-less life, "Because I will give you one."

I couldn't believe my ears! Sure enough, three days later (last night), I held a cellphone unit in my hands, complete with charger, cable, software CD and SIM card. It even uses the same network I have been using all my cellphone-user life (SMART). My first trial text message to the "angel" was "Thankyou" (didn't know how to space yet). The reply was "Ur mst welcm ate. Ikaw talaga pinabgyan ng Lord nyan."

Amen and amen. A blessing on all such "angels" and the people they bless.


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