The past few weeks I have volunteraly been working on my off time to do childrens ministry in Tipo. My teams and I have loved the kids and shared stories, playing songs, and much more. I thank God for times like this.

A local Filipino pastor at Subic Gateway House of Prayer and I have developed a tight bond. As I was sharing with him my passion for missions he gave me this opportunity to go and share with a partnering ministry, Seek God Ministries, seekgod.org. The community there is made up of several volunteers who teach, feed, and do all kinds of other things to help the 100’s of kids that are in need of a home and much more. The ministry at Tipo was a great opportunity to develop and practice the skills I’ve been learning with Logos Hope. I put together several great programs that the kids, adults, and teams themselves enjoyed giving. This was a great honor and responsibility; I actually found putting the program together fun and exciting organizing the event. My teams were great! The passion and desire of the new group of crew that have joined just a month ago now has been full of enthusiasm, all I have to do is say is go and they go and do it. They each contributed significantly to the program leaving no one without leaving with a feeling of despair, but rather a feeling of wanting more.

We had a lot of good times. Every time I turned around the kids would be all over us. The girls and boys there opened up to us almost instantly. After the program we would take a lot of time with the kids outside just playing and hanging out with them. This part of our time was a great joy as we got to get to know them more at this time.

I have given gifts from the ship’s Help Ministry Department onboard. This will give them better clothes, hygiene supplies, clean water and more. We’ve also been able to bless them with other gifts in our past from the ship along with our presence. The Filipino people love foreigners especially white people.

Overall I wish I could back up and start all over again. I would begin by doing the ministry with Seek God from the first week we were in Subic Bay. I’m going to miss these kids and their innocent hearts lighting up with joy at the sight of the teams from Logos showing up at their small community. The Lord is faithful and true and He will hold these kids in His arms as they grow up to become strong Christian men and women.