We have been on the road traveling through the island of Leyte and haven’t had service to post any updates.
Right now I’m laying in bed at Skip’s Beach Resort getting ready for sleep. Tomorrow we start rebuilding part of a church here in DaanBantayan (N. Cebu) with Pastor Randy. We will be mixing concrete and stacking cinder block (called hollow block here).
We will be traveling to and from the church via motorbike. Pray for favor on the roads. Here in DaanBantayan 99.9% of vehicles are motorbike. I’m not that worried. It’s NOT like anywhere else on the Philippines. Besides the occasional bus or sugarcane truck all the traffic (which isn’t much) is motorbike.
Possibly tomorrow afternoon Papa Edgar has setup a time for us to meet his brother who lives here in the area.
We have witnessed so much devastation, so much loss of life, loss of possessions, so much loss of hope it is difficult to put into words. It’s been three months and people still wander the streets or stand at street corners staring at nothing.
I only have enough cell service to post this. Sorry no photos until next week when we return to Cebu.
-T
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If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere.
So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
-1 Cor 13:1-3