Last Sunday, R.G. traveled up from Manila to the Tarlac province where he met with a group coming down from Pangasinan. Together they rode on for about another hour to a little "sitio" (just a small community) know as San Pedro. 
It is an area where poverty is a way of life.
And, until one year ago, they had been without the presence of an evangelical church
to bear witness to the Gospel.
Yesterday we celebrated the first anniversary of the planting of a new church there.
It's a small beginning.
But God is doing GREAT things!
He planted the seeds for this vision in the hearts of Sonny and Virgie Lagleva (pictured above).Sonny and Virgie came to faith in Christ several years ago while living in Villasis, near the campus of the Bible Methodist Shepherds College. Since then they have worked faithfully as caretakers there, and have been actively involved in the local church. A few years ago they began to share with Tim Keep and David Black (missionaries here at that time) about the burden they felt in their hearts for the people in the community where Virgie had grown up. It soon became evident that God wanted them to be the ones to step out in faith and begin the work of planting a church in this needy place.
One year and one week ago, they held their first service.
Yesterday we saw some of the fruits of their faithfulness as people gathered in from the surrounding area . . . some even walked two or three kilometers to attend.
There was an atmosphere of excitement as we joined with them in rejoicing at the goodness of our AWESOME God!
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