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!

Saturday, March 2, 2013

2nd Graduation Set

Our second annual Commencement Exercises, where we will graduate our second 'crop' of students with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Bible, is set for Friday, April 5.  Another historic occasion, and we are all very excited about this as well.  Preparations are already underway, and we are expecting (hoping) that 12 young people will walk the stage on that day to receive their well-earned diplomas.  Of the 12, seven are young ladies and five young men.  We will also have a couple of visitors from Amarillo on that great day, God willing: DeWayne Trimble, a great friend of LCC who will be making his third trip over, and Dick Rice, one of the Shepherds of the Southwest Church of Christ in Amarillo TX, our sponsor church.  We are excited to see both of these good brothers again!  Our keynote speaker for the Commencement will be bro. Joel Talaver, the fine preacher of the Downtown Church of Christ in Cebu City, Philippines, a fine, fine man and good friend.  It is shaping up to be a wonderful day.  We are so proud of our 12 candidates for graduation, and we know they will be fine ambassadors for Christ as they finish their studies go out into the field in just one month from now.  Thanks to all of our great supporters for making 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.