PRAYER REQUESTS

For Medical Ambassadors Philippines (MAP), for continuous provision so that we can go to even more remote places and reach more people with the gospel. Physical, emotional, and spiritual strength in the mountains for my team and I. We will be staying in Mindoro until July 20, 2012. Sensitivity to the Lord's voice. Character and competence, the way Christ modelled it. A potential future ministry area in Rekudo, Abra de Ilog, in partnership with MCTV Philippines. That God would continue to open the hearts of the Mangyans we are reaching. Barangay Health Worker's Training in Brgy. Villaflor, Oriental Mindoro. (May 2829, June 25-26) For my home church (MCTV Novaliches), to be mobilized for missions.

The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
Frederick Buechner

The wrestling began, leading to days of confusion with only faith to help me to endure. I had many questions that were unanswered, and I knew there were many answers that were waiting to be questioned. But finally, with just the right amount of faith needed, I took that first step. That first stepit was the hardest to take, but it amazingly brought me to where I am right now, a missionary nurse serving the Lord and His people in some of the most remote places unreached by healthcare. I have been climbing mountains for almost a year now. Those climbs have allowed me to experience God as never before. How His creation draws me closer to Him! It is impossible not to see God in nature. As David Crowder once sang, My eyes are small but they have seen the beauty of enormous things. The more I realize how deep the ocean is, the more I comprehend the depths of His wisdom. The more mountain peaks I climb, the more I understand the heights of His greatness. The more I grasp how wide the sky is, the more I fathom the magnitude of His love. It is when you experience creation with all its beauty that you experience the Creator in His glory. But in this mission I am living, the greatest of all creation that touched my heart are the people who live in the mountains, the Mangyans. I live with these amazing people for three weeks each month. I eat what they

eat, drink what they drink, and laugh at their jokes. I sit where they sit, chewing nganga with the elders, and play tanching and trumpo with their young children. I sing their songs, share their worries when storms hit and smile with them when the sun shines. As many faithful men and women have proven, life becomes more exciting when we follow Gods call and jump into the unknown. Really. But thats just one side of the story. For along with these amazing experiences, I must tell you that my heart keeps getting broken, broken by the things that break His heart. Picture these with me, will you? A very tired Mangyan mother with her eight-month-old daughter gasping for air, in desperate need of a Salbutamol inhaler. A sixty-five year old hemiplegic elderly lady lying on her bed, unable to speak clearly due to lack of anti-hypertensive drugs. Hungry children during a feeding program, craving nothing but simple lugaw. Some of them have not eaten rice for three days. Mang Lauding, thirty-seven years old, struggling to write his own name on a piece of paper. Seeing the world through Gods eyes makes the difference. If all of us Christians would only try to see the world His way, less people will feel unloved and hopeless. I know this is true for His grace has allowed me to experience it. It pains my heart to say this, but the silence from His children is deafening. Yes, we are silent, so silent. We are the body of Christ. And yet, how would they know that God loves them if we, called to be His hands and feet, do not say a word? How will they know that there is hope, if we do not care to act? Tough questions. I myself have been part of the problem. But this I do know now: it is time to break this silence. It is time to act. Friends, there is a story, a much greater story. Step in. And welcome. It has been great joy for me to live this chapter, word for word, just as the greatest Author wanted it to be. And it is with equal joy that I invite you to be my partners. Please start by praying for me.

"But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Philippians 3:7 [ NASB ]