Twenty-six missionaries from Batch 67 of the 1000 Missionary Movement (1000 MM), consisting of 10 males and 16 females, arrived at the Southeastern Philippine Union Mission (SePUM) and, as one family in Christ, conducted the Your Home and Health Seminar at RN Artsville Resort, Tupi, South Cotabato, from October 4 to 10.
Prior to the nightly meetings, the missionaries visited homes, offering songs and prayers, providing blood sugar and blood pressure screenings, giving massages, and assisting the elderly and the sick by cleaning their yards and helping prepare meals. They also taught community members how to prepare plant-based foods and healthy juices. Through friendship evangelism, many were encouraged to attend the nightly series.
Pastor Demetrio Taotao Jr., SePUM 1000 MM Associate Director, conducted one-on-one Bible studies, allowing participants to read the Bible verses themselves and explain their understanding with the guidance of missionaries assigned to each group. Also present were members of the Public Campus Ministry/MAS-AMiCUS (Movement of Adventist Students - Adventist Ministry to College and University Students) of the Southeast Asian Institute of Technology (SEAIT) Chapter, together with brethren from Shiloh Adventist Church and neighboring congregations of the Tupi 2 District, under the leadership of Pr. Jonjorie Blando Narca and Pr. Jimuel Payod.
From medical and dental care to life-changing spiritual truths, God truly used these young workers who were dispatched to various mission fields.
The Southeastern Caraga Mission (SCM) will host four missionaries. Sr. Asle Monge and Sr. Vashti Agan will serve at Tahina Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Esperanza District of Agusan del Sur. Sr. Lovely Bacolod and Sr. Nyoi Lum will minister to communities near Jubay SDA Church in Bislig, Surigao del Sur.
The Northern Davao Mission (NDM) will have eight missionaries. Sr. Guilbie Jane Babor and Sr. Jona Joy Ballon will work together in Side 4, Barangay Ngan, Compostela, Davao de Oro. Bro. Felipe Dumawal Jr. and Bro. Jhunrey Sanchez will continue nurturing the community of New Loon SDA Church in Asuncion, Davao del Norte. Bro. Ariston Bueno and Bro. Kurt Xianrel Gatchalian will serve among the residents surrounding Caraga Seventh-day Adventist Church in Davao Oriental. Another 1000 MM territory, Purok 13, Tubaon, Tarragona, Davao Oriental, will become the mission field of Sis. Shaira Mae Orge and Sis. Genebabe Mabalatan.
The Island Garden City of Samal, under the Davao Mission (DM), will welcome four new missionaries. Bro. Jan Lloyd Aparece and Bro. Jacky Uri Fabellar will serve at Cogon Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kaputian, while Sis. Nicol Vianca Ignacio and Sr. Elvie Cornelio will share Christ with the community served by Kaputian Adventist Church.
In the Southern Mindanao Mission (SMM), Bro. Jezreel Certiza and Bro. Kenneth James Certiza will minister to residents surrounding Sto. Niño Seventh-day Adventist Church in Sto. Niño, South Cotabato. Meanwhile, Bro. James Ian Ecamen and Bro. Glother Noel Barro will serve at Datal Angas Adventist Church in Alabel, South Cotabato. Sis. Lesiel May Calera and Sis. Panmarie Jenn Jacol will work among the Tboli communities surrounding Basag Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tboli, South Cotabato.
Four female missionaries will serve in the mission fields of the South Central Mindanao Mission (SCMM). Sis. Mae Jane Cañas and Sis. Natalian Sheen Atun will dedicate their time and talents to Pres. Roxas Seventh-day Adventist Church in North Cotabato, while Sis. Jinjin Delorino and Sis. Elma Jean Lavisto will minister to the diverse cultural groups surrounding Tulunan Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cotabato.
Doctors and dentists from the Adventist community in Tupi provided medical services during the medical mission, serving as Christ's healing hands to the community at the foot of Mount Matutum.
The week-long outreach brought 28 precious souls to the feet of Jesus and let us continue leaving positive impressions of Christ's love as we claim the promise: "Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul." 3 John 1:2.
Let us be glad as well because, "Physical healing is bound up with the gospel commission. In the work of the gospel, teaching and h
ealing are never to be separated." Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, p. 141
Photo and story credits:
SIS JONA JOY BALLON, 1000 Missionary Side 4, Barangay Ngan, Compostela, Davao de Oro
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