Daily Prayer

Monday, May 21st: Pray that all the luggage would arrive on time in Tacloban, Philippines.  Pray for the team to get rest as they continue to travel their final flights into the Philippines.  

Daily Prayer Guide

Sunday, May 20th: Ask for safe travel for the team as they leave DFW at 6:15 pm.   Ask that there would be no problems with airline security and that all flights would arrive on time.  Ask that the team makes every flight connection without delays or difficulties. 

Tentative Schedule for the Philippines Team

The following is a tentative schedule for the Philippines team.  Be sure to check back daily for prayer and activity updates!!!! 

Mission Team:

1. Kim Ball
2. Tate Hinshaw
3. Toby Hinshaw
4. Traci Hinshaw
5. Danno Martin
6. Chris Shirley
7. Art Trull
8. Debbie Trull

May 22: 

• Arrive & settle in. 
• Lunch at the Miller’s. 
• Culture orientation
• Trip to downtown by Jeepney
• Dinner at Miller’s

May 23: 

• Breakfast at hotel
• Time to rest/regroup/shop/prepare
• Lunch at Miller’s
• 1:30 – 5:00 VBS at beach fishing village
• Dinner in town

May  24: 

• Breakfast at hotel
• Travel to E. Samar & settle in at training center

May 25: 

• VBS and Dental clinic

May 26:  

• VBS and Dental clinic

May 27: 

• Sunday worship
• Travel to Oras and settle in at Kirum-Kirum resort

May 28: 

• 6:30 Breakfast
• 7:30 Depart for Cadian
• 3:00 Return to resort
• 6:00 Dinner

May 29: 

• 6:30 Breakfast
• 7:30 Depart for Minapos
• 3:00 Return to resort
• 6:00 dinner

May 30:  

• 8:00 Breakfast
• Pac up and leave for Tacloban

May 31: 

• Breakfast at hotel
• 9:00  Leave for beach outing and snorkeling
• 6:00 Dinner

June 1: 

• Breakfast at hotel
• Souvenir shopping downtown
• Lunch at mall or Miller’s
• 3:00 Leave for airport for check-in

Eastern Samar Prayer Walk

This week, September 12-16, we will travel with 13 national partners to Eastern Samar to prayer walk three river systems, praying for God to move in the lives of the people in the villages and open doors for the gospel.



Please pray as we travel:

Monday: Tacloban City to Oras, prayerwalking the villages of Agsam and Naga near the mouth of the Oras River.



Tuesday: Traveling by boat to Balingasag, the last village of Oras Municipality, then coming back down river to Cagtu-og, Cag-dine, Manap-os, Cadi-an, and Binalayan.



Wednesday: Driving to Can-Avid, then traveling by boat up the Ulot River to 3 different villages where a local evangelical church would like to target for Bible studies.



Wednesday afternoon, we will travel by boat to Aroganga, to the training center where Pastor S and L, and Pastor J and D work.



Thursday: The group will travel by pumpboat and prayerwalk two villages, Santa Cruz, and Jicontol.



Friday: We will drive to Dampigan and prayerwalk before returning to Tacloban city.



Saturday: The women will travel back to their homes on Mindanao and Luzon.



As you pray for us, pray for:

o Good weather

o Safe travel

o Unity among the prayerwalking team

o Open doors and opportunities to share the gospel

o Good health for the women as they travel to different places.

o Carl as he keeps his regular schedule of Bible studies at the villages on the Oras River as we prayerwalk.

Serving Him together,
Suzie & Carl

Observations on the River

As we traveled to seven villages last week following up Bible Study contacts, we rode numerous boats, and hiked in and out of villages to visit contacts from the Nehemiah Teams and from our partners. Over the course of the week, I made several observations:

1. The heaviest person becomes the ballast for the boat - GUESS WHO?

2. "Tevas" are great for walking in mud or water(thanks for the recommendation, Kim!) - just make sure there are no rough edges on the seams - BLISTERS HURT!

3. Bedtime comes early on the river - so does MORNING!

4. The mosquito net is your friend. It keeps out more than just mosquitoes!

5. Death is no respecter of persons - this week we saw that it comes to infants, children, mothers, and grandfathers.

6. Thousand of people in hundreds of villages in Eastern Samar are lost and headed for an eternity without Christ because they have not heard the true Gospel.

7. The harvest is plentiful - the laborers are very few.

Pray for us and with us for the Estehanon people (Waray-Waray speaking people of Eastern Samar) that the Holy Spirit would convict of sin, righteousness, and the judgement to come.
Pray for faithful witnesses to share the true Gospel with them, that it is by grace they are saved, through faith, not by any works.
Pray for seed to be planted in good soil.

Serving Him,
Suzie and Carl

Back in the Swing of Things...

Greetings from Tacloban City, Philippines!

After almost 1 year away from our work, we are back and attempting to get back into the swing of things. We're so grateful for Tate Springs family who helped us get through those difficult months.

In our absence, God has been at work

Praise the Lord for our Journeyman, Naomi, the Youth Hostel Missions Volunteer Team, the 2 Nehemiah Teams we had the whole summer, and the ISF sports volunteer team who were here for a week.

Praise God for how he has blessed the work here and for the team he has given us;

• Naomi, our journeyman for the last 2 years has finished her term and returned home. We miss her greatly. She was a God-send to be here to take over this last year when emergencies in Carl’s family called him back to the US for an extended time.
• The 2 Nehemiah Teams that served this summer have returned to the US and are now in debriefing. The result of these 2 teams in our area are: Dolores River – 44 decisions and 9 baptized. Oras River – 142 decisions to accept Christ as their personal savior. Praise the Lord!!!
• The Youth Hostel Missions team spent 2 weeks on the Dolores River working in 2 barangays (villages) and as a result, there are believers being followed up with Bible studies by members from the Aroganga Community church.
• The International Sports Federation volunteers spent a week in Ormoc working in 2 elementary schools and 1 high school, building bridges and strengthening relationships for Ormoc Lighthouse Christian Ministries Church to follow-up through Pastor Vince.
• Praise the Lord for the faithfulness of Silas and Lorie, and Jun and Daisy, living in Arroganga, E. Samar. They will be the ones to follow-up the results on the Dolores River.
• A special thanks to the Lord for his watch-care over the believers in Denigpi`-an, where Carl had worked so much last year, following-up the work and training the leaders. During November last year, news reached us that the husband of one of our strongest leaders, Sister Monica, died after being bitten by a cobra. Praise the Lord she is still standing strong in her faith, even in spite of persecution from others in the village. Many people have been telling her that her husband died because of their involvement in this “new religion” and their reading the Bible all the time now. But, praise the Lord, she has consistently refuted their accusations and is continuing to “stand her ground” and remain strong in her faith. She helped lead this year’s Nehemiah team to others in her village who needed to hear the Gospel.

Now that we’re back

As we get settled back in to the work that God has for us to do here, we desperately need your prayer support:

For our Ministry

• PRAY for Pastors Silas and Jun as they follow-up results on the Dolores River.
• PRAY for Carl as he sets up a schedule to go back up the Oras River to follow-up the results there in 4 different villages. PRAY for a “Timothy” to go with Carl as he travels.
• PRAY for the new believers who were baptized and those who have not been baptized to continue to study and to be obedient to God’s Word. Pray specifically for those living in Minap-os, Balingasag, Cag-tuog, Cag-dine, Jicontol, Sta. Cruz, Osmena, Denigpi-an, and Dampigan.
• PRAY for clear direction for our ministry that we will be intentional and hear God speaking.
• PRAY for God to send forth workers for His harvest field. Specifically PRAY for 2 journeyman to take Naomi’s place working on the Oras River. PRAY for more volunteers to join us in short term projects in prayer, evangelism, and discipleship.

For our Family:

• PRAY for Sean. He is returning to boarding school for his Junior year. After the great experience in the US, making friends (especially one “special” girlfriend) and being with family, it will be difficult for him to get settled back into the dorm with 16 other guys and at school at FAITH Academy.
• PRAY for Melody as she transfers to Liberty University to pursue a degree in Graphic design. Pray for close friends & good relationships as she enters a new school.
• PRAY for Carl & Claire as they continue to teach at Faith Academy and raise adequate support to stay on the field.
• PRAY for Steven & Rachel as they begin their married life and look for jobs.
• PRAY for John & Gleynnda as Gleynnda seeks to be accepted into SC Highway Patrol training and John continues a Masters of Ministry at Anderson University.
• PRAY for Sam & Bekah as they continue to serve God where they live and work and seek ways to be involved in building the kingdom.
• PRAY for continuing settlement of business matters related to Carl’s mom & brother’s death..

You are all our partners as we work together to see His Kingdom come among the Waray-Waray of Leyte and Samar and the Cebuanos of Leyte. Thank you for your continued prayer for us and our people groups.

In His Service,

Carl & Suzie & family

No Other Name

Jesus. That’s what happened today. We woke up, began our devotional, and headed to the mission house to bag food. We sorted several weeks of food for over two hundred families, and crammed into the vehicles to hand it out. When we got there, people were still arriving so we played soccer futbol with some schoolchildren…and got our keisters kicked. Then the families began to arrive. Through the help of our translator, Ricky(a major Godsend!), Kim proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus to a crowd of hungry people. We then laid hands on them and prayed specifically for their needs amidst tears of joy from both sides. We told them of food that satisfies eternally, and of living water that quenches all thirst.

By your generous gifts we were able to proclaim Jesus to those who need Him as we gave them food ‘from God’. Several prayed with us and for us. As Proverbs 11:25 says, “…he who waters will himself be watered.” We definitely saw that today. For every person we prayed for and handed food to, Jesus prayed through us, and handed them His life. We were blessed tremendously. Through our translators we met, in Christ’s strength, both their physical and eternal needs. I’m out of my head with joy right now, just ‘cause He’s soooo good! Praise Jesus! I’m not quite sure how to spell ‘Jesus loves you’ in Spanish, but I know how to say it! ‘Hay-soose teh ahm-mah.’ It was amazing to me the sheer number of people asking for special prayers from a bunch of gringos, but the Lord is Good!

After we returned for lunch, we practiced our skit that (of course!) tells about Jesus. We prayed, and headed out to a church service in the local village. (This is the same church mentioned in the previous post). Three of us shared our testimonies, Toby taught about Jesus, and amidst a jubilant and noisy crowd we lifted up His name. ‘Hallelujah!’ and ‘Amen!’ need no translation. Praise Him!

After the service, we prayed over several more people by name, and they in turn blessed us with the joy that only Christ can provide. Several shared their testimonies amidst tears of joy. Different part of the world, same Jesus. He is using us in Honduras! Thank you for your continual prayers!

Tomorrow we’re feeding and praying over another group of people, so please pray for us. Thursday we’ll be back at a church proclaiming Christ, so please pray for us then as well! Jesus is all!