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
