Wednesday: The final day of the All4Christ conference

Preaching the word

Today we held our final meetings for the All4Christ conference. I spoke in the morning out of Luke 14:25-35 on the "Cost of Discipleship." We shared a great lunchtime meal with these pastors and Christian workers followed by the final session of the day.

Meeting up with CBS Bible Institute
and Seminary Graduates

Lunchtime

The attendees received books and other resources to assist them with their ministry. The people were appreciative of our teaching and were anxious to find out when we were going to return. That is always the hard part because there are so many places with needs in this country, that we could move on without returning and not run out of ministry opportunities. Just while I was here a pastor was urging us to come up into the tribal mountain area to teach because the men pastoring have absolutely no training. He said, "Even a two-day conference such as this would be a great help to them."

Book and resources distribution

Another pastor thanked me for my two messages and showed me the notes that he took. He told me he was going to preach my messages to his congregation for the next two weeks. He said, "they need to hear this from the word." In a way, it is satisfying that a need has been filled and of course I want him to use anything I deliver to help the church. However, it is burdensome realizing there is some much work and so little time to do it.

Manny Pacquiao Hotel

We left Koronadal this afternoon and headed back to Gensan (General Santos). We fly out tomorrow back to Manila. My heart is full from making new friends and feeding the church. We are staying at the Manny Pacquiao Hotel. He seemingly owns half of Gensan. Nothing like sleeping on a Manny Pacquiao pillow for the night! Hope I don't end up with a black eye in the morning.

The All4Christ team plus me and Dan Ebert