Preaching and Praying for the Filipino people

THE HUNTERS

Missionaries to the Philippines

Preaching and Praying for the Filipino

Nov 2023

Dear Praying Friends

Rainy season in Baguio starts in August. Daily driving rain at times, umbrellas everywhere, people scurrying to get inside buildings where they can be dry. Baguio is much cooler than the lowlands and so it seems quite cold. Even so, Bro David Lethert and his family and I were able to meet together with 5 other churches and enjoy fellowship, preaching, special music and great hymn singing. The mountain churches enjoyed a several days meeting that had the focus of only glorifying the Lord and encouraging the saints, no hobby horse to ride or the latest doctrine to push.

Bibles

I was sent funds to purchase bibles to be given to churches and individuals in the Philippines; in the past I have always purchased materials or bibles and then carried them to the Philippines in luggage or shipped them through balikbayan boxes. I was able to find a source of King James bibles in Manila and Cebu so I was able to place in pastor’ and Christian’ hands the word of God, and the words of God.!

SPECIAL MEETINGS

I was asked to preach the commencement service for Bro Pascual and the Bible institute at King James Baptist Church in Tarlac. It is wonderful to see how the Lord has raised up men who have the burden to equip their young men to teach and preach the word of God. The goal of missions is to have the works be indigenous and for the leaders and pastors to raise up their own men. Bro Pascual and his people at King James have been doing a wonderful job for many years now. The graduates gave testimony of God’s grace and strength to help them “finish the course”. The oldest graduate stated it had taken him 21 years to graduate, he has a wife and children and is pastoring but kept on until he finished. Wonderful testimony of God’s faithfulness and the dogged determination of one of the Lord’s soldiers.

Paranaque Bible Believers Baptist church asked me to preach their Homecoming. I usually don’t like homecoming services because usually the pastor just gets up and braggs on how many millions of peso’s they have in their buildings. Bro Joseph can’t do that as he rents a building with bad plumbing, cramped spaces, but a desire to do for the Lord. They have a vibrant deaf ministry, and the joy on the faces of the deaf who attend is a wonder to behold.

RADIO

We have been helping with several other radio stations providing broadcast content and helping them set up their computers and getting things operating. The cost of these stations is quite expensive. At least forty thousand dollars each. The original concept for the radio was a low watt station in a local church that was inexpensive to operate, easy to keep up and maintain. I want to pursue more of these low watt stations. I have spoken with the ministry that has the franchise that allows us to put up the stations and I we will be working on several low watt stations. The first will be in the city of Broangan, Samar. Missionary Bob Criss is completing his church building and has already locked in his frequency with the NTC. I will raise funds to purchase the transmitter, tower and antenna, broadcast equipment and software to begin broadcasting.

ON THE ROAD

I will be heading out the first of the year to visit our supporting churches and to raise funds for the new radio stations. I will call and hope to be able to tell what the Lord has done and is doing in the hearts of the filipino people.

Brother Hunter

Faith Baptist Ministries

Anchor Baptist Church

P.O. Box 1556

White Plains, MD 20695

(540) 447 4320