We’ve been back in the Philippines for a month already… read about what we’ve been up to!

Campus Ministries

Finally, after a long hiatus, many university students are back on campus! Most of the schools are practicing hybrid learning, so students have a mixture of in-person and online classes. Not everyone is back – it depends on the university, the student’s major, and their year in college – but it has brought much activity back to the city.

A lot of students go home on the weekends, so we changed our Street Level meetings in Cebu City to Wednesdays. A couple of students have joined consistently, and last week two new students attended. The main way to get the word out has been by visiting universities and passing out copies of Word on the Street Magazine. It’s a great way to get into conversations… well, with the students that don’t walk away quickly and avoid eye contact 😊 We also held a live radio broadcast at our new sponsor, where we got to meet people and let them know about Street Level Radio. The group in Toledo is still meeting on Friday nights, and Britt has been able to join them more often due to the meeting change in the city.

Prayer Requests:

• for students to prioritize their relationships with God and each other
• for the students that we have met to get connected and plugged into Street Level

School Ministry

We have continued teaching in various levels from grades 4-12 since returning to Cebu. Schools have until November 7 to have students in the classroom for all classes every day. This year, there have been a few different opportunities to be more involved with the Nazarenes. As of now, Laura has been able to attend chapel at Inayawan Nazarene and also co-teach a couple of classes with teachers at both Inayawan and Banawa Nazarene. Opportunities to be involved with other schools the Nazarenes work with have also been offered. Grade 4 students at the Wesleyan School in Talisay had their first Exploring Creation Science lesson while grades 5 and 6 previously had digital/Explore Booklets so they were familiar. Within the next few weeks, the students in grades 7-12 at Southern Bethany will begin a series that will start off talking about How We Got Here….the fact that we were specially created and have a creator.

Inayawan Nazarene Church & School members and staff have been working hard to get three of the six classrooms up and running that were destroyed by Typhoon Odette last year. We plan to join in the preparations during semester break in the next couple weeks. We will also worship with them as the students celebrate Thanksgiving on November 25 and the church Anniversary celebration on November 27.

Prayer Requests:

• Please pray for everyone at the Inayawan Church of the Nazarene specifically for safety during construction. Pray for all the Nazarenes we have worked with – specifically Inayawan’s old Assistant Pastor & his wife who are now in Bohol. Pray for their outreaches and the members from Inayawan that assist each weekend.
• Pray for the students at the schools we work with. In some cases, we see them in school and again at Sunday School in kids or youth.