Life Discipleship

Patty and I have been under a marathon of ministry activities recently. We had a special reunion for all qualified pastors and church leaders of past Life-Discipleship graduates. Great testimonies came out from the reunion last month. A sample of those testimonies is well worth posting here.

Pastor Lito is a member of the first batch of pastors and church leaders who were trained in our home dating back to 2007. Since then, he has trained two groups of prisoners at the Philippine National Penitentiary. Next February, plans are in place for him to begin training a 3rd group of prisoners, some of whom attended seminary in Maximum security, under Life Discipleship.

This prison compound has four Evangelical denominational churches each with their own church facilities inside. A few years ago, we were able to start a Christian worker’s library and resource center for these prisoners with many of the books coming from libraries of churches in the Seattle area and from the low desert in Southern California. With the impact from this pastor and what this ministry has done for those prisoners combined with results of their testimonies, the churches inside along with Volunteer Religious Workers from the outside are planning to build a new training and resource center. Included will be the transfer of the library and a classroom.

Two of the prisoners who have become pastors since their release attended the reunion celebration. They had wonderful encouraging testimonies to share with all who attended. A highlight of one ex-prisoner’s vision is to multiply this ministry to yet another high security national prison in the south. Big, big challenges to his vision lie ahead of him. How we praise the Lord for what He is doing with this ministry for the prisoners.

The weekly training session for a current group of pastors and church leaders are on-going. They're scheduled to complete their training by mid-January.