{"id":314,"date":"2010-02-28T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=314"},"modified":"2015-03-26T06:29:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:29:14","slug":"our-journey-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/our-journey-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Journey in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After great anticipation, the time for our survey trip finally arrived.<\/strong>\u00a0 We spent our first two weeks in Cebu with Brother Lewis and his family.\u00a0 <strong>During this time we were able to see the ministry firsthand.\u00a0 We are excited about what God is going to do!<\/strong>\u00a0 Our many questions were answered and because of this trip, we now have clear direction on what our part will be there in the ministry.\u00a0 We are looking forward to the day when we return.\u00a0 While we were in Cebu the church hosted a Hearts Day activity for the teenagers.\u00a0 <strong>They had over a hundred teens attend and 90% of them were first timers.\u00a0 Elizabeth led three young ladies to the Lord and many others also received Christ.<\/strong>\u00a0 Please pray they will continue to go to the church and grow!<\/p>\n<p>For our final two weeks, we went to Manila to visit my mother.<strong>\u00a0 This was the first time Elizabeth and my mother had ever met.<\/strong>\u00a0 It was wonderful to see her after two years.<strong>\u00a0 Praise the Lord, she is faithfully attending church with my sister, brother, and his wife.<\/strong>\u00a0 It was exciting to see how they have grown in Christ since\u00a0my last visit. <strong>Please pray that my other family members will also be saved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This survey trip was a great blessing\u00a0to Elizabeth and I.\u00a0 Unfortunately, while we were in Cebu two\u00a0funerals occurred that directly affected the church.\u00a0<strong> It was a sad reminder of why the Lord wants us in the Philippines.<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>We hope to return quickly and do what we know is God&#8217;s will for our lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After great anticipation, the time for our survey trip finally arrived.\u00a0 We spent our first two weeks in Cebu with Brother Lewis and his family.\u00a0 During this time we were able to see the ministry firsthand.\u00a0 We are excited about what God is going to do!\u00a0 Our many questions were answered and because of this trip, we now have clear &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/our-journey-in-the-philippines\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[3],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}