• Great need of Madipadu Congregation

    by  • January 11, 2012

    To brother Ron Halbrook and to whom may be interested and concerned.  Regarding brother ch George in India. He is a VERY faithful and dedicated preacher of the gospel. On my first evangelist tour to India, George was one of 15 other preachers who had contacted me before I went to India. They were pleading [...]

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    Preparations For Upcoming – Trip February 2012

    by  • January 9, 2012

    Dear brethren, God willing, my wife Donna, David and Starla Halbrook (Quail Valley church of Christ, Batesville, AR), and I will travel and teach in the Philippines February 7-27.  This is my 45th trip after Jim McDonald first took me in 1995.  The fields are white, the doors are open, and Filipino souls are searching [...]

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    Update on Funds

    by  • January 8, 2012

    Dear brethren and friends, Thank you for the very good response on behalf of saints suffering from the killer typhoon which hit northern Mindanao. We have raised well over $10,000 which is being sent to targeted needs. For instance, I sent Jonathan Carino to survey the situation and to help create a list of the [...]

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    Halbrook Report:Philippine Trip Nov. 29 – Dec. 19, 2011

    by  • January 8, 2012

    Dear brethren, By God’s grace and providence my 44th preaching trip to the Philippines (5th to New Zealand) was successfully completed November 29-December 19, 2011. I am forever indebted to Jim McDonald for taking me with him in 1995. It was a joy to work with Steven Deaton (Hebron Ln. church of Christ, Shepherdsville, KY) [...]

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    Home from Philippines

    by  • December 21, 2011

    Dear brethren in many places, By God’s grace, I am safely home after completing the work planned for the Philippines and New Zealand Nov. 29-Dec. 19. It is almost midnight on Monday (equivalent to 12:00 PM Tuesday in the Philippines, 6:00 PM in N.Z.). I am exhausted but thankful all three flights between Manila and [...]

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    New Building in Barangay Alegria, Alabel

    by  • November 27, 2011

    These are pictures of a new church building in an area where brother Nestor Francisco and other saints have planted a new congregation which is growing.  It is being constructed in Barangay Alegria, Alabel near General Santos City in Sarangani Province in southern Mindanao.  The work is temporarily halted for lack of funds. Dear Brother [...]

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    New Building for worship

    by  • November 26, 2011

    These are the 1st pictures of the newly planted church. The first two pictures show brother Nestor Francisco with U.S. brethren Kurt Jones and Jerry Parks in General Santos City, southern Mindanao, where Nestor lives. The next scene is the church which meets in an extension of Nestor’s home. When they outgrew this place, a [...]

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    Preparations For Upcoming Trip

    by  • September 30, 2011

    Dear brethren, Plans for a 44th preaching trip to the Philippines are well underway, scheduled for November 29-December 19, 2011.  In Matthew 13:44-46 Jesus spoke of men who learn the great value of the kingdom of God sacrificing everything in order to enter or obtain it:   Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto [...]

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    Halbrook Report:Philippine Trip July 22-Aug. 19, 2011

    by  • August 27, 2011

    Dear brethren, God richly blessed  my 43rd preaching trip to the Philippines July 22-August 19.  By His providence Jim McDonald introduced me to this work.  Filipino brethren exiting premillennialism reminds me of Acts 18 when Apollos learned more perfectly “the way of the Lord.”  An Australian lady has hung onto her faith meeting in her [...]

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