So it begins. A new life as missionaries, 7,000 miles from home, in the far east country of the Philippines – in particular, a densely populated municipality named Santa Maria, about 15 miles north of the capital city.
This is a work that my wife and I have been preparing for and praying over for almost a decade. The two of us met as teenage freshers at Aberystwyth University, and from then until now, every day, from that very first meeting, we have had the call for gospel witness in this needy nation heavy upon our hearts. And now, at last, we’ve made it!
We’ve been sent by Grace Chapel Folkestone, working with Grace Baptist Mission, and to continue with that theme, our ministry will be primarily focused on ‘grace’. Practically and spiritually, we desire to show and share the grace of God in Christ Jesus to a community that is largely taken up with folk Catholicism, nominal religiosity, and a destructive prosperity gospel. In our area, gospel-preaching and Bible-believing churches are in short supply. It is our prayer that we might fill that need with a church plant, with the initial hope of holding regular evangelistic Bible studies over the coming months in our living room. We continue to pray ‘that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ’ (Col. 4:2).
