One month to go before our furlough!

One more month to go and we are off to the US. We are looking forward to seeing most of you. We will have a very busy schedule and most of them will be visiting churches. As most of you know we have not been back "home" for almost 4 years! We are also going back to attend our parents 50th "Golden" Wedding Anniversary. What a blessing to see God's faithfulness to them.

Here is our tentative schedule:

March 12- arrival- stay in the Bay area with family
March 14 -Fly to San Diego to be with our church family, Grace Bible Church in Escondido, CA
April 3-6 - Juanita Community Church, Kirkland, WA
April 19- CERC, Castro Valley, CA
April 23-28 SGBC, Phoenix, AZ
April 30- fly to Chicago, be with family in MI
May 13-17 - SGF, Slidell, LA
May 18-21 - FIRE conference
May 23-June 1 - GFC, Bremen, IN
June 2-12- Family in MI
June 13- fly back to Bay Area, CA
June 15- Departure back to the Philippines

Please pray for us as we are trying to finish up last minute details for our trip. Nathaniel has finals to give to his students as well as he needs to take his finals in his Greek and Hebrew classes. Our kids have their finals as well to take on March 9-11.

Oh by the way, our class cycle here starts in June and ends in March that is why we will be in the US during the Spring time- it's summer break here for us.

The pictures posted are the graduate and undergraduate students at Febias College of Bible.

Young Professional Bible Study

We are so blessed to be part of helping with the Young Professional Bible study which meets at our house ever Friday night. Last Friday, Jan. 30, we took a break from our normal bible study and had a fellowship night. We normally have about 12-15 "young pros" (as they are now called) join our study. Last Friday, we were blessed to have at least 30 of them join us for fellowship night. We didn't expect so many "kids" that we ran out of food. It was comical to see how we were looking around for left-over food in the fridge to serve to them. They were so easy to please that they ate all our left-over, no qualms about it. We played a lot of board games and "guesstures". A We've had our bible study for about a year now and we studied John Piper's Desiring God and now we're going through another series of studies. What a blessing to see most of them hear a clear presentation of the gospel! There are few ladies now who are interested in being baptized and have professed faith in the Lord. Glory to God!

Ladies Tea Party

This past Sunday, Feb. 1, the ladies at our church had a Tea Party (and coffee too!). We were blessed to have about 40 ladies come and join us for fun and fellowship. One of the lady member of our church shared a moving testimony of God's grace in her life. We were so moved, some of us were crying during her testimony time. What a blessing to hear and see how God changed her life, from a little girl who grew up in an orphanage, no parents, got into all sorts of "mischief" and sinful lifestyle to a woman who serves the Lord with all of her heart.

A Silver Medal

On January 19, our kids participated in English Elocution (art of clear and expressive speech) at their school. My oldest son, Luke in 4th grade, recited Psalm 91 and he was awarded a silver medal for his performance. We thank the Lord for this great opportunity for our kids to be a part of this competition and for the award.