From Japan

Ed and Nan write:
Dear Pray-ers,
Yesterday, Olive and Friends met. It was our last time in this 
particular borrowed room. I asked them what Bible stories they liked
best.

Shige: I like Jesus on the cross. He suffered so much for me. Of 
course, there are all those other good ones.

Toyoshima: Well, all I can think about today is my surgery. You know I 
have to have a hip replacement in October. It's going to be really 
hard and I won't be able to come here for a while. I will miss our 
time together but I want to come back.

Kohno: It's really important to remember that Jesus is the only one 
who can take away our sin. Only He can forgive our sin and make us 
clean. (She says she can't believe on Jesus because her entire family 
is Buddhist yet, she longs to have Jesus forgive her sins.)

Wysteria: You have told us so many stories. I thought the ones about 
Jesus were all good. However, it wasn't until I went to Israel last 
year and actually walked those streets in Jerusalem that it all became 
real to me. I walked the Via Dolorosa and we prayed at each picture
along the way. I saw how MUCH Jesus suffered for me. I had to believe 
on Him then!

Olive: I like Jesus on the cross--and of course, His resurrection and 
the Holy Spirit coming. Paul--that's a really important story. Here is 
this man who hated Christians and then turned completely around. I
like the story of those three men in that furnace when God came and 
took them out. God is really powerful!!

When I said, "This is the last time we will meet in this room 
together. It makes me sad to leave." They all said, "We are glad those 
people let us use their room for free, but we will all continue to 
meet together in a different place."

Prayer Requests:

Kohno -- that she will put her faith in Jesus Christ

Wysteria -- Her husband's brother died last week. She said, "He is the 
only living relative now. We are all caught up in doing all the 
Buddhist ceremonies and my husband hates it." Pray that his eyes will 
be opened to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Olive -- Is preparing food for the Buddhist altar in their home. "We 
don't do the candles and Buddhist prayers every day since I was 
baptized two years ago. However, my husband asked me to prepare the 
food for the ancestor's spirits when they come back Aug 13-18. I have 
to do food in seven colors for breakfast, lunch and dinner during this
time. I told him I would." Please pray that God will take this time 
and somehow use it for His glory.

Thank you for continuing to remember the Deaf of Japan.
Love,
Nan & Ed

DEAF OF GUANGZHOUC CHINA

More than 125,000 Deaf live in and around this megacity in southeast China.  Deaf from around the country come here to work and provide a livelihood for families for nearly 50 weeks per year.  These migrant workers have no access to the Gospel stories but could, if reached, take the Good News for workers to go and share His story of love and hope.

What Happens When You Pray For Your Missionaries And Their People Group
Dear Praying Friends,
On Our Blog
Thank you so much for praying for Bro. Noel.  Read how God has answered his prayer for healing!
Thank you for praying for our first values formation seminar with the city employees of Tingloy.  Click the link below and continue to pray.
Join us for worship in Dagatan Keystone Christian Church.
Deaf Teaching Deaf - see and pray for a faithful servant of the Lord as he volunteers in a public school.
We had several opportunities to share the gospel this week including with 7 bar maids in Nasugbu.  They invited us in to where they stay during the day.  We were amazed how quietly they sat as we shared a gospel tract in Tagalog.  One lady wept as she heard the words of life and prayed to receive Christ. 

One day a boy carving wooden idols in his family's business asked himself, "If I am making this idol, who made me?  How can this thing be my god when I'm the one making it?"  Lord we can't speak to every lost person in Batangas, but you can.  We pray that, like this boy, people here will begin to question their false beliefs, traditions and superstitions that keep them in bondage to darkness.  May Batangenyos seek you as their only hope, In Jesus' name.

Your partners in the harvest,
Dave & Ivette Daggett
http://batangas-batangas.blogspot.com

An update from the Phillipines

What Happens When You Pray For Your Missionaries And Their People Group

Dear Praying Friends,
Deaf

• Deaf youth - In a text, "Please forgive me and pray for God to restore me to serve Him again."
  
• Please pray for our Deaf young people as God brings healing in Santo Tomas Baptist Church.  Pray for a truly God-sent revival among our Deaf all over Batangas.

What Happens When You Pray For Your Missionaries And Their People Group

Dear Praying Friends,

* Deaf youth - In a text, "Please forgive me and pray for God to restore me to serve Him again."
* Please pray for our Deaf young people as God brings healing in Santo Tomas Baptist Church. Pray for a truly God-sent revival among our Deaf all over Batangas.


Dave and Ivette Daggett

 Happy Easter


Dear Praying Friends,  Sebastian is doing well and growing!  We now have the 1 liscenced Filipino Dentist!
Dagatan

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      Aleng Edna - "One thing I am thankful for this Easter Sunday morning, God has never forsaken me!"  These are powerful words coming from a 60-year-old woman who has lived her life in what we would consider dire poverty.  Proof?... she almost always wears a smile every day.
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      Lourdes - "I'm grateful for new life in Christ.  Even though Noel has suffered so many setbacks in his health, he really is improving over time and God is showing us His ways through all of our trials."
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      Jun - "I'm thankful for what the Lord is doing in my life through this fellowship and getting to know Him more and more."  See Dagatan's first Sunrise Service on our blog
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      Please pray for Jun a 22-year-old man who admits, I'm going to have to understand it for myself, I won't become a Christian by someone just telling me how."  I gave him the book this week Know Why You Believe.  "I really love that book especially the chapter on creation," he says.  See Jun on our blog

Deaf

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      Madhel - (a 15-year-old Deaf girl in San Nicolas has had a change of heart) "I want to get baptized!"  See her picture and read her story on our blog.  Also read how God is answering your prayers for the Deaf to be able to meet in our absence!  Also pictures of their first Lord's Supper.

Youth Witness To Hundreds

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      "Are you a Baptist?" a man asks when handed a gospel tract.  See pictures on our blog of our youth climbing Mt. Makulot and sharing their faith through handing out hundreds of gospel tracts to holiday climbers.  Also learn why so many make this trek every Holy Week.

Revival

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      Mercy - "In 1991 I was not a Christian and my sister sent me a Tagalog gospel tract entitled Pagsisisi (Repentance).  The Pinatubo volcano was wrecking havoc in our nation at that time and even though our town experienced a 7.1 intensity earthquake on the island of Mindoro that same year, I had no time for my sister's attempts to convert me.  I stuffed the gospel tract into a book on a shelf and forgot it completely.
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      In 2009 one Saturday night in March, that same gospel tract came tumbling out of the book I'd placed it in so many years ago.  Only this time I was preparing a message to share in church the next morning.  I began to study the tract and take notes.  After sharing the word of God on Sunday morning about repentance and forgiveness, our young people began to cry uncontrollably but this time they had nothing to share as they usually do.
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      After the service one young person shared with me a deep scar from their past and added, "Others of our youth have suffered similar abuses in their lives, I only learned it last night!"   Thus began the journey to healing which, by God's grace, is off to a good start.  Imagine four young people, not yet 20 years old, having been able to open up their deepest wounds for the first time and apply the "Balm of Gilead" - the word of God.  As the healing process continues imagine the years of normalcy and service to God that will be restored to their lives, which the "locusts" might have eaten!  Thank You Lord for these stirrings of revival!
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      Please pray for a deep sense of Holy Spirit CONVICTION to permeate this province - Batangas.  The stories our young people shared are very dark and disturbing.  We believe their stories are being repeated daily in the lives of Batangenyos.  They heartbreaking!  We realize we are way in over our heads.  If we don't see God move here in power - nearly 2,000,000 men, women and children of our beloved people group will certainly suffer eternal torment in Hell!
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      Please cry out to God on the behalf of Batangenyos - one of the most unreached people groups in the Philippines, still barely 2% evangelized.  Please pray that the power Easter - the power of the resurrection will quicken the hearts and minds of multitudes groping in spiritual darkness.

Your missionaries,
Dave & Ivette Daggett
http://batangas-batangas.blogspot.com