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, March 18, 2012

Several Baptisms

God is so good! He has blessed us with fruits from our labors with ten baptisms in the last couple of weeks. This past Saturday, March 17, saw six baptisms in the Pacific Ocean just one hundred yards from the LCC campus, including three of our construction workers on our new big building. Arnold Narsico, the foreman of the crew and a really good guy, was immersed into Christ, as was one of the lead masons, John Ricky Belarde, another good guy. Arnold is from Cebu and is here for the construction but John Ricky lives in Baghapi, the next village up the highway from us. Jennifer Makabata of Tagpuro was also baptized last week and we are happy about another resident of Tagpuro being added to the Lord. Tagpuro is the village where LCC is located. Then yesterday, another person in Baghapi was baptized - her name is "Niece" incredible as that may seem. So yesterday, Sunday, March 18, a small congregation was born in Baghapi, meeting in the small house of one of the new members there. One of our LCC students, Jeron Pabian, led the worship and did the preaching. We have been so blessed with this new crop of converts. Thanks to all of you, our great supporters, for helping make this a reality.
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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.