Philippines 09

This May we had the privilege of traveling to the Philippines to teach on worship at the Asia Institute of Youth Studies (AIYS). Every 4 years Assemblies of God Missionaries, Ty and Cina Silva, put together this school to help train the youth leaders of the countries of South East Asia to effectively minister to the youth of their nation.

We are so grateful to God for the opportunity to go and impact lives and youth ministries all over South East Asia. The memories, blessings and new friends will be treasured for the rest of our lives. We were not only able to pour into individual people that attended the conference but they will turn around and pour into the the people in their ministries. The people attending were youth leaders, pastors, missionaries, and national youth ministry directors. This was humbling as we realized that God was actually using us to help shape youth ministries for entire nations... not just one, but many! Among the countries represented there were Fiji, Samoa, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and Mongolia. While at the conference Mongolia formed the first National Youth Ministry Team and elected their first National Youth Director for the Assemblies of God. Like the Mongolians, many of the people that attended are pioneering youth ministry in their country so the resourced that they received at this conference is going to be vital to them as they begin reaching the youth of their nations.

Again, we are so humble to be counted among the resources that will be used to share national youth ministries all over South East Asia. Following our time at AIYS we had the opportunity to minister at 3 events the following weekend in Manilla and saw amazing amazing times of worship and ministry.

Thank you again to all who supported us financially and in prayer.