Greetings - Saturday morning in Lucena City --
The report from Friday is a good report. P Sharon met with five supervisors of Jane's ministry and her corporate board. They each shared with her all of the issues they have in their provinces and the numbers of people they oversee. As they each told their story, P Sharon was wishing she was a millionaire. They all have at least 5-10 churches under them, and each of those churches have 5-10 churches under them. All of the have feeding programs due to the typhoons and weather conditions, people are short on food and are just barely surviving. Needless to say, P Sharon gave away all the money she had on her at that moment...and wished she had more. She gave them $50 each which will only feed each of families for just a month.
Some of these pastors have lost their homes, some needed bamboo to lift their beds out of the water so they could sleep. The bamboo stilts costs about $50 to fix the beds, but many of these only earn $20 a month in income. Some Korean churches have come in to help and assist with these needs.
The Bible School director shared about how they are training young people to raise up churches. It costs about $ 1,000 a year to sponsor all the needs of each student in their school -- food, room, supplies, etc. The number of students they can take in all depends on how much money they have to sponsor them.
After a nice lunch that Jane and her ladies prepared, P Sharon met with Levi, Jane's husband who has been estranged from her for over ten years. He poured out his heart and unloaded a lot of pain to P Sharon. He is ashamed of his behavior and has had a difficult time overcoming what he has done. After that discussion Jane came in and P Sharon helped them mediate issues they have been facing. They haven't talked or communicated in that ten year time due to all the painful things they have been going through. Levi has been suffering severe depression. They ended with tears, prayer, and a commitment to friendship and counseling. They would like to put their ministry under Rez Life Ministries and have our church stand with them.
Then P Sharon came back to the hotel and picked up Maddaline and me to go to dinner at the banker's restaurant again. It was a lovely meal and after we ate, we joined the "dinner music" entertainers -- who insisted we sing a few Karaoke songs with them!!! Yes, that's right, we are now dinner entertainers. Maddaline sang a worship chorus acapella and then I looked through the song book and picked a Roberta Flack song and a Beatles song. We got lots of cheers and applause. It was a FIT!
It was a long day -- P Sharon was up at 4 a.m. and we went to bed just about midnight.....yes, a long day.
Today P Sharon will be meeting with Jane and Jane's daughter and then resting. Maddaline and I are going to do a morning seminar in one of Jane's churches about 30 minutes from Lucena. We come back later this afternoon and then we all go to some Chinese friends of Jane's for dinner.
During the day yesterday, there was a wedding here at the hotel. This place was jumping and busy all day long. It was fun to see some of their traditions and ways they dress, etc. for the celebration. Lots of noise all night long but we all had no problem sleeping!
All our love and thanks for the prayers for Jane and her ministry.
P Sharon, Nola and Maddaline
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