Beginning September 25 until their 10-month mission work is over, 20 volunteers of the 1000 Missionary Movement (1000 MM) will be fielded in various churches of the Southeastern Philippine Union Mission (SePUM), a territory with five mission fields across 12 provinces of the half of Mindanao.
The visit to the SePUM office after their arrival was inspiring, as the missionaries told portions of their conversion stories, their conviction to serve the Lord through the 1000MM, and their life-changing training at the campus at Silang, Cavite.
Matanao A District of Davao Mission will have Bro. Dino Israel Saw, a 29-year-old BS Education graduate with a major in Math, paired with Bro. Christopher Valera from Iloilo or Western Visayan Conference, an Aviation Maintenance Technology graduate.
Two gentlemen from the newly established Northern Panay Mission (NPM) of the Central Philippine Union Conference (CPUC) will serve the Island Garden City of Samal, which is still under the territory of the Davao Mission. Bro. Alfred P. Arcilla, a BS Agriculture major in Agronomy graduate, took the challenge along with Bro. Joben P. Perez is a skillful fellow trained at TESDA.
Capungagan Adventist Church of Tagum City, Northern Davao Mission, will host two willing missionaries. Bro. Taehyeon Moon, a 20-year-old Theology student, will serve the Lord in the territory with Bro. Recil John Avila of the Northern Samar Mission. Recall is 30 years old and a Business Administration graduate.
Bagong Silang, San Jose, Bislig, Surigao del Sur or Mangagoy District will be the home of Bro. Oliver Angeles Jr. is a Pulilan, Bulacan, or Southern Luzon Mission high school graduate. He will cheerfully work with Bro. John Mark Dominguez from Batan, Aklan of the Northern Panay Mission. Mark is 24 years old and a hospitality management graduate.
Three gentlemen will work hand in hand at Barangay Aumbay, Kabacan District, in South Central Mindanao Mission. Bro. Tristan Timothy Paolo Nacario is a 23-year-old pastor’s son from Naga, Camarines Sur, and a theology graduate. His co-missionaries will be Bro. Lester Arguelles, a Theology student of Central Philippine Adventist College of Murcia, Bacolod, and Bro. Ian Harry Pisga is an incoming college student from Kabankalan, Negros Occidental.
Two lady missionaries also will work in God’s vineyard at Itaw Adventist Church in Upi, Maguindanao. Sis Janice Gajardo, a BS Education major in English graduate from CPUC and a resident of Sipalay, Negros Occidental. The other army of truth will be Sis. Ma. Jobell Delfino from the Central Luzon Conference is literate about technical-vocational livelihood education.
Within the center of tourism in the Island Garden City of Samal, one business accounting graduate from Nepal will serve as God’s ambassadress. She is a 21-year-old Sis. Nina Thapa Magar will work with Sis. Bhea Mae Calixtro, 23, a secondary education graduate from Palompon, Leyte. Both will serve the Upper Kaputian Seventh-day Church at Purok Solid Rock, Kaputian.
Southern Mindanao Mission’s Lamcaliaf Adventist Church at Polomolok, South Cotabato, will have two Filipinas willing to use their skills and dedication. Sis Sherilyn Pancho, who is 28 and has finished Psychology and International Cuisine, hails from Central Luzon Conference. Sis Glicery Bliss Honrejas, who has a diploma in Agricultural Technology, is from Biliran, Leyte.
Three dedicated ladies from the East Visayan Conference of the Central Philippine Union Conference will be serving Brgy. Colungulo, Surallah, South, Cotabato of the Southern Mindanao Mission. Sis Lovely Baslan from Baybay, Leyte, is 23 years old and currently finished BS Elementary Education, while the 24-year-old Love Jarel Calungsod is in hospitality management. The third element for the 1000MM evangelism is Sis Reah Joy Metran, 25, who loves animals with her degree in Animal Science.
God does not require a degree or diploma to serve Him in various fields, but this article aims to inspire our young people that whoever they are, the 1000 Missionary Movement and other missionary work will always have a room for everyone. It only requires an “I will go!” to enable them to be messengers in places where people who are athirst and hungry for truth exist and are waiting.
Mrs. Ellen G. White, an Adventist writer whose manuscripts became guides for all members of the church, has written in a pamphlet entitled An Appeal for Missions says: “God calls for men to give the message of warning to the world that is asleep, dead in trespasses and sins. He calls for free-will offerings from those whose hearts are in the work, who have a burden for souls, that they shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Satan is playing the game of life for the souls of men. He is seeking to secure means, that he may bind it up, so that it shall not be used to advance the missionary enterprises. Shall we be ignorant of his devices? Shall we allow him to stupefy our senses, so that we shall not discern the needs of this time?”
For those interested in knowing the missions and gaining more information about the 1000 Missionary Movement, please see your District /Church Pastor, see your 1000MM coordinator in your mission office, or you may inquire from the Southeastern Philippine Union Mission (SePUM) 1000MM.
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