Wednesday and Thursday

I wanted to bring everyone up to speed with what has been going on here. It is still extremely hot, but that has not dampened anyone's spirits. I truly believe it's because of the winter that we have all experienced. It isn't bothering us...yet. Wednesday morning we went to meet the Mayor of the city of San Pedro. San Pedro is a community of over 300,000 people. We were all ushered into the mayor's office. We spent some time with him. He ended up inviting us to lunch at a country club in Tagutay Highlands. The place was incredible, the food was delicious and it was a really unique opportunity for our young people to spend some time with the Mayor. I believe he was very impressed with our young people.
After lunch we made our way back to the church. I had the privilege of preaching. I was extremely tired, but the Lord blessed. Afterwards we had dinner and all made our way to bed.
Thursday was incredible. We loaded up at 8:45 am and made our way to the San Pedro Manpower Training Center. There we were able to preach and the young people shared their testimonies. We saw 209 souls trust Christ as their Savior in the morning! Wow! We then made our way to a mall (the girls were thrilled) and were able to exchange our US cash for Pesos. A little shopping was done but we were not able to be there long. We then made our way to ISPL which is an electronics company here in the Philippines. They have been doing a Bible study during their lunch hour once a week. We were able to preach in this company's breakroom! Imagine doing that in America. The room was packed (probably 60 or more), the General Manager and President of ISPL was there. I was able to preach. We were amazed at the opportunity. We made our way back to the church and had lunch around 2:00. After lunch we had a brief choir practice for our young people and then returned to the San Pedro Manpower Training Center. There we saw an additional 424 souls that trusted Christ bringing our one day total to 633! Our kids (and adults) were thrilled to see God at work. Tonight we had a revival service with many young people and church members. The church was packed. I had the privilege of preaching. It was a wonderful service.
Thank you all for your prayers. It is wonderful to see all of the comments in the comments section of the blog. Our kids all looked at them today and were thrilled to see that you all are interested in our progress. Brother Laurena is praying that before we leave we will see 2000 souls trust Christ! He said that our flight will be canceled if we don't see it. Parents, please pray! God bless you all.