Philippines & New Zealand January 31 – March 2, 2024
March 2, 2024th Year of Our Lord
HALBROOK REPORT: 85th PHILIPPINE TRIP JANUARY 31-MARCH 2, 2024
Dear brethren,
By God’s providence, Jim McDonald took me to the Philippines in 1995 and now my 85th trip there has been completed, as well as the 11th to New Zealand. I taught 49 lessons, mostly to souls hearing the original gospel of Christ for the first time. 403 Bibles in Filipino dialects were purchased to ship to the saints.
Once when Paul pondered where to preach, “a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them” (Acts 16:9-10). We do not receive such miraculous visions today, but we still serve the God who opens doors for us to find people seeking the truth.
January 31-February 1 three flights brought me safely to Manila, where I spent a day running errands, and then Saturday preached at Santa Maria, Bulacan with Alex Estoy & Dominador Guevarra. 50 souls heard a series on “Moral Truth in an Amoral Age” addressing abortion, homosexuality, transgender, and social media. Young Filipinos tell me these sins are being promoted in some schools here. Sunday morning I preached “From Wretched Man to More Than Conquerors” to 30 saints at Pavia St. in Tondo, Metro Manila where Rey Tacbad is an evangelist. That afternoon James Paet brought me to Bacoor City, Cavite to preach to a church he is reviving where about 25 attended this first service. Monday James drove 6 hours round trip to let me preach at the Cambio church of Christ in San Miguel, Bulacan where Jimmy Lacambra labors. The audience of 40 spilled out into the yard in this rural place.
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