Who Are We ?

Project Philippines is a team of approximately 15 workers, both Filipino and American, men and women. It is a 3-fold project designed to reach the lost and bring glory to God in the Republic of the Philippines, a nation of nearly 90 million people in the continent of Asia. The Philippines is an island nation of about 7,100 islands (only about a hundred inhabited).

The first phase of Project Philippines is Leyte Christian College.

LCC was born in the summer of 2007, in a meeting of our team at Tacloban City, Leyte. This great "gateway" city in the Philippines, sitting astride the great San Juanico Bridge which connects Leyte island with Samar island, is a vast, growing commercial city in the heart of the Philippines. It is the capital of the province of Leyte. You may remember Leyte from the events of the Second World War. Here, General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his pledge ("I shall return") to the Filipinos on Oct. 20, 1944, with the Allied invasion of the Philippines culminating in the rout of the Japanese Army. Our work will be centered in this great city.

We have secured a nice property there on which we might build all phases of Project Philippines:

(1) Leyte Christian College, a preacher training school
(2) a pre-school, elementary school and high school
(3) a children's home for homeless or orphaned children.

We're looking for sponsors and supporters who might share our vision for the Lord's kingdom in the Philippines and lend a hand. We know it's a bold and ambitious plan. It will require lots of hard work. It also will require brothers & sisters in Christ standing behind it, in prayer but also in financial assistance. If that's you, contact us at eastepfamily@yahoo.com. Or write our sponsor congregation at this address:

Project Philippines
c/o Southwest Church of Christ
4515 Cornell
Amarillo, TX 79109

Thank you for your interest!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Latest With Our Family

It seems we have been "on hold" for one reason or another these past several months. The Lord is making our way clear to live and work in the Philippines but first we need to take care of some urgent matters. The latest news is Robin will require surgery. This will be a hysterectomy, as doctors have detected an unknown inter-uterine mass. Robin has a history of endometriosis and doctors feel this is a return of that old problem (she's had 3 surgeries for this, dating back to 1978). The surgery will take place in Athens, Tx on Wednesday, July 30. We are asking for your prayers that this will be a successful surgery, that she will recover well and finally that she will be free of the pain she's been experiencing for some months now. The doctor believes the mass is non-cancerous but can't be 100 percent sure until pathology tests. We ask for prayers also that these tests will turn out negative for cancer. Hopefully by September we'll be on the way to the Philippines. The doctor says if all goes well she will be able to make the move in six weeks after the surgery. We want to say thanks too for all the calls, cards, emails and prayers of concern for Robin during this time. We will keep you updated on her condition via this website.
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Our Newest Graduates at Leyte Christian College

Our Newest Graduates at Leyte Christian College
Largest-ever graduating class at LCC - a total of 23 students finished their four years with us and received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology. We're proud of them all!

New Preachers, ready to go to work!

New Preachers, ready to go to work!
The guys - eleven of them in all who graduated - show off their hard earned diplomas after the commencement exercises.