{"id":1494,"date":"2012-05-26T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T06:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2014-02-24T01:55:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T06:55:17","slug":"nasipit-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/nasipit-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasipit Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after arriving in Cebu we selected a target area to begin our outreach to the local people.\u00a0 Since we’ve been here we’ve gone every Saturday with a group from North Cebu Baptist Church and focused our soul winning efforts on that one specific area.<\/strong>\u00a0 The little town of Nasipit looks small at first but we quickly discovered several clusters of homes filled with families.\u00a0 There are no street names or real roads, just paths made of dirt or concrete leading you to the next group of houses and little stores. You always pass people on the road but since we’ve returned we’ve hardly met the same person twice.\u00a0 The people as a whole are friendly but it didn’t take us long to realize that Cebu is very Catholic, even more so than Manila.\u00a0 It was here in Cebu that Catholicism was first born around 1521 and the people have clung to its superstition and beliefs to this day.\u00a0 Even a large portion of the children go to mass everyday so you can imagine some people aren’t too thrilled that we’re here.\u00a0 We’ve been faithfully returning to this town for weeks now and have seen some become defiant.\u00a0\u00a0 Now they post their catholic symbols on their doors when they were not there before. \u00a0Praise the Lord, a few have responded well. \u00a0One\u00a0young mother actually came to church and made a profession of faith!\u00a0 A few children have also come but there are so much more that we need to reach!\u00a0 The benefit of returning to the same area is that over time the people will get to know you on a more personal level and will eventually want to talk.\u00a0 One thing we noticed right away were the requests for a backyard Bible School from several young children.\u00a0 Due to these requests we’re going to change our game plan a little bit next week and bring the church to the neighborhood!\u00a0 Lord willing we’ll hold a mini Sunday School class right in their backyards!\u00a0 Please keep us in your prayers as we try to reach the local community of Nasipit!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly after arriving in Cebu we selected a target area to begin our outreach to the local people.\u00a0 Since we’ve been here we’ve gone every Saturday with a group from North Cebu Baptist Church and focused our soul winning efforts on that one specific area.\u00a0 The little town of Nasipit looks small at first but we quickly discovered several clusters … Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}